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I made multiple attempts to connect to the venue's HDMI projector using different laptops, different kernels and different versions of Linux. Every attempt failed, as though there was no projector attached. Eventually the person I'm helping to do a stage presentation was able to convince the venue m...

I have a Toshiba laptop (Satellite P750, so quite old) with a HDMI port. It's running Linux Mint 20.1 XFCE without any other problem. If I attach one of my computer monitors via HDMI (using my HDMI 1.4 cable) it is immediately recognized by the OS, and shows up in the Display Settings gui so I can c...

I was glad to hear the Mint devs have created a Chromium package that bypasses Ubuntu's snap crap. Unfortunately it has a hard dependency on pulseaudio. My system has been set up for music production, using alsa and jack and a low-latency kernel. Pulse audio has been deliberately removed, and I do n...

I wrote a dash shell script to automate the download, build and install of linuxsampler ( https://www.linuxsampler.org ). It also installs Qsampler from the Ubuntu repos. I'm posting the script here in case anyone else finds it useful. I've tested it on Linux Mint 20 XFCE. #!/bin/dash ##############...

When I started programming I was attracted by the large IDEs such as Eclipse, but I found them too cumbersome to work with. All of the bells and whistles merely distracted me from learning the fundamentals of development. Eventually I settled on Geany. It's basically just a text editor with some ext...

This is more curiosity than concern. Since installing Linux Mint 20 XFCE, I have been getting occasional desktop notification popup messages telling me 'Sticky keys are disabled'. The timing seems to be random, and has no apparent association with anything I am doing. I don't use sticky keys. The 'E...

This bug has been annoying me for years. I suspect there are prehistoric cave markings somewhere complaining about it :? The issue (for me, anyway) seems to be about the X session not being restored on resume from suspend after the laptop lid was closed. I previously used a keyboard shortcut that ra...

Oops! It seems I misread the instruction to install 'havegd'. It should have been 'haveged', which is in the repositories.

When I installed 'haveged' and rebooted, the nagging messages from wpa_supplicant had stopped.

So the solution was: I'll mark this as solved.

I've just installed Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE on a Toshiba laptop. I'm using a wireless network connection. When I checked the system log via 'journalctl -b -p "err"' I found 3711 consecutive lines of wpa_supplicant[917]: random: Cannot read from /dev/random: Resource temporarily unavailable I ...

smurphos wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 12, 2020 3:05 am

If you are determined to get rid of it entirely in a terminal run.

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sudo rm /usr/share/applications/mint-meta-codecs.desktop

Thankyou. That's exactly what I was looking for.

it's not really an stand-alone Menu Item, as such Yes, it is. It is a menu item displayed in the Applications menu, and in MenuLibre. See the screenshot below. NB: this is not Windows, and as such, you don't really have to Remove "surplus programs". I'm not trying to delete a program, I'm...

I've installed Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE on a second computer, and I have no need of the usual multimedia codecs on that system. I tried to delete the 'Install Multimedia Codecs' menu item using the menu editor, but it seems to require root permissions. Presumably I have to edit a default menu config som...

If Ubuntu is increasingly insisting on using Snap for installing software, does that mean Mint will have to find a different distro to use as a base? Debian? Manjaro?

Mintjaro anyone?

I have the same GPU, and an integrated Intel graphics processor.

I have been running Linux with 3 monitors for several years without a problem.

But first I had to disable the integrated Intel gpu in the BIOS settings. Try doing that and see if it fixes the problem.

I can't explain the keyboard/trackpad issue, but to see what the messages were run 'dmesg' in a terminal. (For what it's worth, I run Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE on a many-years-old Toshiba Satellite P750, and it works without a problem using either the integrated graphics or the Nvidia gpu that the system...

I've had similar issues and discovered that, for me, it was caused by using 'uas' usb devices. I found out that many USB3 external drives and SATA-to-USB3 adapters now use a recent-ish development called 'USB Attached SCSI', usually abbreviated to 'UAS'. Refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Attac...

Well, NOW I don't even know if the variable opacity function exists, what with so much else getting screwed up in the downgrade to 4.14. But that's how it was in 4.12, screwed up but repairable. The variable opacity is still available in 4.14, but it needs to be accessed through the Settings Editor...

This isn't a help request, but I wasn't sure where to post it. Feel free to move it somewhere else. I needed ffmpeg built to use the non-free fdk-aac encoder, but neither the default repo nor any other ppa I could find provides ffmpeg with fdk-aac support, so I had to build it myself. The steps were...

I have no idea why, but today the flatpak applications are launching in a few seconds. I haven't changed anything, so colour me baffled. Investigating this problem, however, did get me to look at the system files installed for flatpak, and I discovered that these flatpak apps, and the associated sup...

Hi, I've installed 3 flatpak apps from the Software Manager in Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE: Darktable, Inkscape and Handbrake. Every one of them takes at least 30 seconds to start after it is launched, either via the Mint menu or the terminal. The same applications (albeit older versions) installed from ap...