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by a.bowers
Tue Jul 18, 2023 11:09 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: The "Network" tab in Nemo seems to be useless.
Replies: 1
Views: 133

The "Network" tab in Nemo seems to be useless.

Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon I've got a Synology NAS that has a Movies share on it. if I run nemo smb://Synology_NAS.local/movies in the terminal, it connects to the movies folder and works. I can watch The Maltese Falcon or Tremors or whatever I want on my Mint machine. Close that, eject that share...o...
by a.bowers
Mon Aug 22, 2022 4:17 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Lutris GPG Key nonsense, followed instructions in a thread here, gave worse error
Replies: 5
Views: 249

Re: Lutris GPG Key nonsense, followed instructions in a thread here, gave worse error

Okay. Solution: Uncheck the PPA and forget about getting updates from Lutris. rainbows this. Last time I install an Ubuntu-forked distro, it's going to be LMDE or Fedora from now on. Everything Canonical does turns to problems.
by a.bowers
Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:54 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Lutris GPG Key nonsense, followed instructions in a thread here, gave worse error
Replies: 5
Views: 249

Re: Lutris GPG Key nonsense, followed instructions in a thread here, gave worse error

Sure. Other than it's a fresh install of Mint Cinnamon 21 "Vanessa", what information about the system is relevant to this issue?
by a.bowers
Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:43 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Lutris GPG Key nonsense, followed instructions in a thread here, gave worse error
Replies: 5
Views: 249

Lutris GPG Key nonsense, followed instructions in a thread here, gave worse error

Long, angry sweary rant short: Because Dell and Microsoft are both bad at their jobs, my cousin is now running Linux Mint, she likes the Sims, because EA is bad at their jobs this means Lutris, and because Lutris is bad at their jobs, I've got some PPA key error. This thread: https://forums.linuxmin...
by a.bowers
Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:03 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: Mounting USB drive requires root privileges after waking up from suspend
Replies: 2
Views: 1426

Mounting USB drive requires root privileges after waking up from suspend

Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon. Fresh boot of the machine, I can plug a thumb drive in, and it mounts in /media/<username> just fine. Lock the machine, let it sleep/suspend/whatever it's called which has also been acting unpredictably lately, log back in, and now mounting or unmounting removable media req...
by a.bowers
Sat Dec 11, 2021 3:13 am
Forum: Cinnamon
Topic: middle-click drag file context menu?
Replies: 2
Views: 621

Re: middle-click drag file context menu?

It really doesn't bug me, I don't use symlinks that often, but it used to work and now it doesn't.
by a.bowers
Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:18 am
Forum: Cinnamon
Topic: middle-click drag file context menu?
Replies: 2
Views: 621

middle-click drag file context menu?

In WIndows, if you right-click drag a file from one folder to another, you'll get a context menu that asks if you want to move, copy, or create a shortcut. In Mint Cinnamon (this describes both my 19.3 and 20.2 machines) you can get a similar menu by left-click dragging, then pressing ALT before rel...
by a.bowers
Mon Jun 14, 2021 8:50 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How to install the latest 5.11 or 5.12 kernel ?
Replies: 50
Views: 13333

Re: How to install the latest 5.11 or 5.12 kernel ?

Which kernels are supported or not can be seen from Update Manager/View/Linux Kernels. Mint 20.1 only supports 5.4 and 5.8 series. Hi, question. How permanent is the fact above? Like, will 5.12 be coming to Mint 20.1 during its life cycle, or is it not going beyond 5.8 because LTS reasons? I'm only...
by a.bowers
Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:50 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Strange text input field behavior in FreeCAD
Replies: 2
Views: 405

Re: Strange text input field behavior in FreeCAD

as a work-around, try triple-click to hi-light the whole text string, then delete. No, they'd thought of that. It doesn't work because if that field is empty, they automatically put "mm" or "in" or whatever your default unit is in as a placeholder, so there's still layered text.
by a.bowers
Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:31 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Strange text input field behavior in FreeCAD
Replies: 2
Views: 405

Strange text input field behavior in FreeCAD

Running FreeCAD in LM 18.3 Cinnamon. In several places in it's UI, there are text windows that appear over other text windows. For example, when you go to add a length constraint to a line, it pops up a dialog that lets you type in a value, or you can click an f(x) button to type a Python expression...
by a.bowers
Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:12 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: Bluetooth audio also doesn't work.
Replies: 1
Views: 3674

Bluetooth audio also doesn't work.

This isn't a request for help, this is just a warning. Don't get fooled into installing Mint 19, it's just too broken. First I had to fix my boot sequence, then I had to fail to fix my graphics, then bluetooth audio doesn't work... Congratulations: It's officially worse than Windows. I'm sorry I was...
by a.bowers
Mon Dec 24, 2018 9:31 pm
Forum: Graphics Cards & Monitors
Topic: AMD hybrid graphics still don't switch for the fourth year in a row
Replies: 0
Views: 337

AMD hybrid graphics still don't switch for the fourth year in a row

Linux Mint 19.1. Kernel 4.15.0.43. My hybrid graphics still won't behave themselves. I can't get my Radeon card to turn on. I'll try to give the output of some vaguely useful shell commands. lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|Display' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrate...
by a.bowers
Mon Dec 24, 2018 7:37 pm
Forum: Graphics Cards & Monitors
Topic: Mint 17 and 18 and now 19 AMD GPU drivers! Look here before doing anything!
Replies: 164
Views: 307318

Re: Mint 17 and 18 and now 19 AMD GPU drivers! Look here before doing anything!

Okay, so here is my (stupid, bad, wrong, and the only available) procedure for getting AMD hybrid graphics working in Linux. First, notice that anything more taxing than video playback looks and runs like hot buttered garbage. Second, Google it using half-remembered terms from the last time you inst...
by a.bowers
Sun Dec 23, 2018 9:31 pm
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot
Replies: 17
Views: 2538

Re: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot

Swapping the unifying transceiver to another port sped things up considerably. We're now talking about 4.7 seconds for the kernel. I wonder if I could trim a little more speed off by ditching the transceiver entirely and using the mouse in Bluetooth mode. Not really going to bother though. I also ma...
by a.bowers
Fri Dec 21, 2018 2:44 pm
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot
Replies: 17
Views: 2538

Re: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot

Well, there's this nonsense about my mouse: [ 3.435899] logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:406F.0009: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Logitech MX Ergo] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2:2 [ 8.673693] input: Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:1028 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/0003...
by a.bowers
Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:54 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot
Replies: 17
Views: 2538

Re: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot

That pared it down a bit: Startup finished in 3.412s (firmware) + 11.749s (loader) + 12.304s (kernel) + 8.471s (userspace) = 35.938s
graphical.target reached after 8.285s in userspace
by a.bowers
Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:04 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot
Replies: 17
Views: 2538

Re: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot

cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume RESUME=UUID=179696ed-ff76-433f-b033-741b27c97d6d blkid /dev/sda1: LABEL="Recovery" UUID="8836AA2A36AA1968" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="cb5e4bbd-8c6f-4e82-a29d-cb91231f684a" /dev/sda2:...
by a.bowers
Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:16 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot
Replies: 17
Views: 2538

Re: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot

The SSD is a brand new Samsung 860 EVO 1TB. System is dual boot Windows/Linux. I'll boot into WIndows and see if there's a firmware update EDIT: No firmware update, there was something about "rapid mode" in there. Didn't seem to help much. Booting into Windows is mighty quick, though I kno...
by a.bowers
Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:57 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot
Replies: 17
Views: 2538

Re: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot

I'm reading some stuff about converting from a swap partition to a swap file. Would this have an effect?
by a.bowers
Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:49 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot
Replies: 17
Views: 2538

Re: Another Mint 19.1 slow to boot

Something to this effect:

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[    5.379821] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-intel
[   36.535103] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

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