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there is a 'sound preferences' ... menu in the menu - control center gui on mint mate desktop.
https://www.linux.org/attachments/output_tab-png.3005/
is this 'sound preferences'-menu part of the 'pulse audio'-server or it has nothing to do with it?

Is it to possible to add more sound effects? Namely a sound effect when notifications are cleared. Open the Sound settings module, navigate to the Sounds tab and switch the toggle for Notification sounds on. https://i.imgur.com/KrguWlx.png hvVwYdsIpVygyAj is there the same ' Sound settings module' ...

hello, would it be nice if there were some 'special sound effects' when the mouse cursor moves over the icons of the panel or when it moves over the icons of the directories or when we open a directory. just like the special sound effects when we play a pc-game. they could be implemented in 'compiz'...

hello,
is it possible to install third party apps on windows os that runs as a guest-os ( on virtualbox ) and the host-os is linux?

hi,
what should be the default output from the command 'groups' on a pc under linux mint 17.3 mate edition?
my output is: is there something that is missing or is odd and needless?

hello,
every hardware device ( incl. the internal microphone, suppose ) works under some driver.
how one can find out which is the specific driver controlling the work of the internal microphone on a pc that works under linux mint?

have 2 firefox versions - 66.0.3 and 67.0.4.
when 66.0.3 is running in the output from lsof -i the name of firefox is firefox.
when 67.0.4 is running in the output from lsof -i the name of firefox is firefox-b.
what is the difference?

After the mount of usb-flash-drive in usb2.0 port some of the apps on the panel disappeared. A black hole/s on their place/s. The apps not function. This happens only when the usb-flash-drive is mounted on the pc. After the 'take-off' of the usb-flash-drive from the pc everything works fine again. C...

uh!
my ip-address has changed!?
and this happened without the 'samba'-folder in and without in it!?

hi a little problem with the new ip-address uptain. for a some time notice that my ip-address does not change. which is strange. after some research it appears that i have deleted some ... samba-files. and maybe dhcp and my dhclient depend on one of those samba-files. the output from ~ $ sudo dhclie...

hi a time ago have installed an add-on to firefox named 'zzzz'. an ad-blocker that is running at the moment. now the output from the command whereis zzzz is: ~ $ whereis zzzz zzzz: the output from the command ~ $ which zzzz is: nothing. the output from command ~ $ locate zzzz contains the name 'zzzz...

ups! it looks like that it is highly likely that we can say 'goodbye' to our mate desktop in case we remove 'ruby-pakages'. can't we? ~ $ apt remove -s ruby NOTE: This is only a simulation! apt-get needs root privileges for real execution. Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated, so don't depe...

hi,
there are some ruby-packages on my os: do any important services depend on this ruby-packages?
what will happen if they go deleted?

hello, like to know where we can find info about the compatibility problems that the different mint versions have with certain hardware? for example: mint 19.1 partly incompatible - fully incompatible cpu - Intel i18xxxx amd35xxxx gpu - xxxxxxx zzzzzzzzz and so on.

hi,
what are the default versions of vlc in mint 18.0 and 19.0?

rene wrote: ⤴

Tue May 07, 2019 6:56 am

ckonn wrote: ⤴

Tue May 07, 2019 5:55 am

is it now safe to give nicknames, passwords, bank account info and so on if we running firefox 66.0.3?

See the "View Firefox Studies" link there and check for "hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate-bug-v1.0.3-1548973" being active. If yes, your Firefox's fine.

it is active. thanks a lot!

my system is linux mint 17.3 mate edition. running firefox 66.0.3 have just one add-on - an adblocker. on the 5th of may afternoon there was a warning massage and the adblocker was disabled. set the 'xpinstall.signatures.required'; to 'false' but some hours later ( don't know how and why, did nothin...

hello, some time ago i have installed 'pycharm' on my os. today i noticed that every time when i am online and i run 'pycharm' a java-process is starting and the status of the process is 'LISTEN' the output from 'lsof -i is': java 3345 tony 145u IPv4 3074919 0t0 TCP localhost:6942 (LISTEN) java 3345...

hello,
how could one find out if a certain ip address is a ip address from proxy server or not?

thanks in advance

i am curious what is the origin repository of this 'linux-kernel-generic' upgrade?
some link to the website of the repository?