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- Wed May 23, 2018 9:14 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: Who no longer uses Windows?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19005
Re: Who no longer uses Windows?
I was a Mac guy from 1984 until about 2000 when the price finally drove me to Windows. I recently wiped my old MacBook 2.1 that was EOL and installed Mint 18.3 Xfce. The Mac program I really miss is Circus Ponies Notebook, an excellent outliner and organizer of documents and projects. With Windows I...
- Thu May 10, 2018 3:49 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: sugestion for a good email aplication
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4367
Re: sugestion for a good email aplication
You may have to go into Settings > Sound and from the Sound Effects tab turn up the volume and uncheck the Mute box of the Alert volume. That is based on Mate (and LM 17.3), but it may be somewhat different if you may be running Cinnamon or Xfce or KDE (you didn't say).
- Thu May 10, 2018 1:57 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Portable Linux Mint 18 install help
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2184
Re: Portable Linux Mint 18 install help
This procedure by pbear creates a bootable USB drive that will boot on a computer that runs via BIOS or via UEFI. The procedure appears in the second post of that thread. The procedure assumes you are using a BIOS (or Legacy)-based computer to perform the install. If you don't have one perhaps you ...
- Tue May 08, 2018 6:00 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED}A Newbie" How to use the terminal for Dummies" recommendation:-)[SOLVED}
- Replies: 7
- Views: 873
Re: A Newbie" How to use the terminal for Dummies" recommendation:-)
Here is a short ... well, 1-1/4 hr ... intro on YouTube.
- Tue May 01, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: How Do I get Google Chrome to work with Mint 18?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3043
Re: How Do I get Google Chrome to work with Mint 18?
Maybe you already tried it, but I've had good luck installing Chrome this way (see #3).
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Load persistant Mint to SSD
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4419
Re: Load persistant Mint to SSD
Thanks to pbear for providing two solutions to the problem of installing a UEFI-compatible LM OS to an external USB drive. [I wasn't aware of the Ubuntu installer bug for external drives.] I already had a BIOS-compatible USB stick with LM on it that worked well with my legacy computers, but I never ...
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:25 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Load persistant Mint to SSD
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4419
Re: Load persistant Mint to SSD
While you are waiting for a better answer, here are a couple of videos and a thread to get you going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbdAmJ5jzfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glFCEauwGgw https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=243723 In the first video a separate partition is made for "...
- Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:31 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: No CD / DVD burning program in Linux Mint 18.3 MATE ? [solved]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 812
Re: No CD / DVD burning program in Linux Mint 18.3 MATE ?
From what I've read people here seem to like xfburn and k3b. Brasero not so much.
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:34 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Erm..where do I start?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 610
Re: Erm..where do I start?
Hi phingers. Do you want to install Linux Mint so that each time you boot up your HDD (or SSD) you can select to run Windows 7 or Linux Mint? (That is called a "dual boot" set up.) Or, do you want to wipe Window from your drive and install Linux Mint as the only operating system on your co...
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Loss of etc/sudo.conf endangers entire system
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1411
Re: Loss of etc/sudo.conf endangers entire system
originally I booted Mint from a flash drive that include both the iso file and software to load it. Do I have to do that again ? Not that it's a problem in itself but I obviously must avoid it overwriting my current Backup files. Yes, boot up LM from your USB flash drive with the installation ISO o...
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:35 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Themes and icons not installed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2366
Re: Themes and icons not installed
The two commands successfully renamed the empty directory /home/scott/.themes to /home/scott/.themes.orig and created a symbolic link /home/scott/.themes to /usr/share/themes. However, no themes show up in the Appearance Preferences (of either of the two user accounts). (I'm going to sleep now. Back...
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:39 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Themes and icons not installed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2366
Re: Themes and icons not installed
If you have themes and icons installed, but they does not appear, the reason can be permissions or they simply have disappeared somehow. Case permissions: Open Terminal and run ls -l /usr/share/themes ... the answer shuld be something like I screwed up by messing with LibreOffice removal(s) and ins...
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:30 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: How to connect to a compatible Samsung laser printer
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7246
Re: How to connect to a compatible Samsung laser printer
To add to what administrollaattori said ...
There is Linux driver specifically for the M2026W.
There is Linux driver specifically for the M2026W.
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:23 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: How to install on mac 5.1 - internal HD from other mac
- Replies: 3
- Views: 618
Re: How to install on mac 5.1 - internal HD from other mac
I recently installed Linux Mint 18.3 Xfce (and Mate for that matter) on a MacBook (mid-2007) that has similar specifications to your computer. Compare your Mac with mine . The procedure I followed was written by Matt Gadient and is found here and in the pdf attachment below. I converted the standard...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: [ANSWERED] New kernel selection
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1507
Re: New kernel selection
1 Is there a process which updates the Grub default Linux boot to the latest kernel update or not? 2 Was this a process by [X]Ubuntu? 3 Which /etc/grub file would need editing to do the change manually? ... It is the system's responsibility to auto update grub to the latest kernel, and is not Grub ...
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:00 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Two default browsers - how to correct?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1299
Re: Two default browsers - how to correct?
Thanks for teaching me how to clean up ownership issues. The two default browser issue doesn't seem to cause further problems (after the Thunderbird tweak) so I'll just ignore it for now. I switched from FF to Chrome because (before and even after the introduction of Quantum) FF would temporarily fr...
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:22 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Two default browsers - how to correct?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1299
Re: Two default browsers - how to correct?
Sorry, no the Profile change did not work.
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:48 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Two default browsers - how to correct?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1299
Re: Two default browsers - how to correct?
I reset "browser.shell.checkDefautBrowser" and restarted Firefox. FF still thinks it is the default browswer. I went back and reset all lines in the screen shot below, but that didn't help. Screenshot.png ... Thanks for the chown vs chmod and .cache/dbus explanations. I really need to stud...
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:58 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Two default browsers - how to correct?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1299
Re: Two default browsers - how to correct?
Thanks, Cosmo. I ran the commands you provided. After logging back into the primary account (scott) I ran find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f to check the results and it returned nothing, which I assume is good. That said, Firefox still shows itself as the default browser even though the LM OS and Chro...
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:42 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Two default browsers - how to correct?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1299
Re: Two default browsers - how to correct?
I didn't find any Firefox files in ~.local/share/applications screenshot1.png Here are the results of the permissions check: scott@scott-MacBook ~ $ find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f find: ‘/home/scott/.cache/dconf’: Permission denied find: ‘/home/scott/.gvfs’: Permission denied find: ‘/home/scott/.d...