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I feel for you! I had been using Photoshop Elements for years and find Gimp not very intuitive.

I use Pinta for the smaller, less intricate jobs and muddle through using Gimp for the rest.

Unfortunately, you'll need to do a reinstall. LVM is a pain. You can't use Gparted on an LVM partitioned disk.

Welcome Jani!

I have the HP EliteBook 8460p, but haven't seen your 8640p. Are there any differences?

Mine also has a fingerprint reader, but I purposely haven't tried to get it working.

Good luck!

... OK, phew! Now I need to decide which tradeoff I prefer: slightly shorter battery life in Mint, but less disruptive updates? Or, slightly longer battery life in Fedora, but more distracting updates? :? Choices, choices! Recently, I tried Manjaro and it's a nice distro with rolling releases. Good...

I have a SanDisk 64 GB USB 3.0 flash drive that has a full install. It was installed as Legacy and has a / and /home partition. I don't use it often, so I can't speak about durability. I have booted it from a Dell and Gateway desktop and from an HP laptop. It runs on all three without a problem. Unf...

To my knowledge, you've been updating correctly. Like you, I don't reboot unless it's a kernel update or a security update.

Hi smurphos,

Thanks for the link. There were a couple of solutions so I'm not sure which.

Should I set up vino or x11vnc?

Not sure about this, but I seem to recall reading that Mint 19 no longer includes a VNC server by default. If that is true, the simple fix would be to install one. Thanks for the reply. Forgot to mention that the desktop can connect to the laptop. So, this begs the question: why can the desktop con...

Hello all, To preface, I set up my partner's desktop with Mint 19 Xfce. He had (and still does have on a separate disk) 18.3 Cinnamon. I installed Remmina a few weeks ago and was able to connect easily to the desktop (18.3 Cinnamon) from my laptop (19 Xfce). I used the VNC option by typing in the de...

actay thway e message reads is that i'd have to erase the disk, so yes gparted needs to reword heir message. anyway all unmounted, pnew partition created, rebooted, and have all including the new one showing in nemo. the partition is a ntfs volume. i don't have fast boot nor secure boot on, nor do ...

looker1, welcome to the forums.

Have you tried a different web browser to see if the same thing happens?

You can get Chromium (very similar to Chrome) from the Software Manager.

Aptik is one of two programs I use for backing up and restoring. I like a backup of the backup. Aptik is great for doing a complete backing up and restoring of the same version (18.3 to 18.3). I'm upgrading my desktop from 18.3 Cinnamon to 19 Xfce. I'm using Aptik only for a listing of what was back...

I have what may be a bad habit.. I keep software on mint. What I mean is, I have 3 word processors, 3 web browsers, and other software I hardly use. Always annoys me when space is taken up by a Firefox update when I never use it. However, I am paranoid that one day I'll quickly need the internet, a...

Welcome!

lsemmens wrote: ⤴

Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:53 pm

It was simple enough to set up, it just does not work "out of the box" There is a thread that I started asking about it. If you can find that, you'll see some very useful answers there.

I will! Thanks.

The only issue I foresee with using xfce is that file sharing is a little more convoluted than in Cinnamon. I had to set xfce up on a small lappy that is my spare and file sharing does not work "out of the box" on that. Thanks for that advice. I've never had good luck with file sharing in either DE.

You don't need to type it in at all.

If you click on the "SELECT ALL" that's above the code someone give you, you can then right-click on it and select copy.

Then in Terminal, right-click and paste.

Welcome oldbloke to the forums!

administrollaattori wrote: ⤴

Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:33 pm

Code: Select all

find /home/jim/Desktop -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 744

As I told gm10, I'm going to install Xfce. Seeing permissions works from properties and the links open the URLs.

Thanks!

I then proceeded to drag the URL onto the desktop. When I clicked on the newly-created shortcut, it opened Linux Mint page, which it should. Then I checked permissions by right-clicking and choosing Properties. Again, permissions can't be determined. I already explained this to you a few months ago...