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smurphos wrote: ⤴

Sat Oct 05, 2019 4:13 am

I'm looking forward to Mint 20.2 Ulrika-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb1JrDA8PzU

Still my favorite show ever. (sung in the club style)

Oh Noes! More new stuff to check out! :wink: However, I am a MATE fan. I really liked the Windows 95 interface, and you get all that and more with MATE. I actually liked Windows 95, and I liked Win 98 SE2, XP & Win 7. I think Microsoft had too many users for their taste and decided with Windows 8 &...

Oh Noes! More new stuff to check out! :wink: However, I am a MATE fan. I really liked the Windows 95 interface, and you get all that and more with MATE. I actually liked Windows 95, and I liked Win 98 SE2, XP & Win 7. I think Microsoft had too many users for their taste and decided with Windows 8 &...

When I had that problem after upgrading to 19.1, I ended up doing a lot of reading before I figured out what to do. From what I gather, it seems like it was mainly the Epson scanners that we're having the problem, so I'm not surprised that your HP did not have the same issues. I'm looking forward to...

Did you have any problems when you went to 19.1?

Sounds good.

One concern of mine is scanners working OK after updating to 19.2. My Epson V500 Photo scanner stopped working on Mint Cinnamon after upgrading to 19.1, and required some tinkering to get it back to working normally. Have you, or anyone who has been using 19.2 had any scanner issues?

So, even at the expense of making myself look stupid :oops: , I thought I would follow up after figuring this out - 100% sure. This way, hopefully my mistakes could help someone else. To recap, I was suddenly getting desktop notifications that seemed to me to be coming through the Cinnamon notificat...

Re: Gimp 2.10.

I removed the 2.8, and went to the software manager, clicked on Flatpak, typed GIMP, and version 2.10 came up. Been running it a lot with zero issues. You don't even need to PPA - it's right in the Software Manager.

Thanks for that. I will have to spend time tomorrow reading that, it's a bit over my head, so I'll have to take it slow. However, I did find the source of this issue. I use Vivaldi browser with the extensions I've mentioned above, and have the notifications set as described above, but I found posts ...

Sounds good, will do.

Good question. I'm not actually fully sure if they are notifications originating from the Cinnamon Mint notification system, or just getting pushed through it. (Sorry, I'm not super tech savvy - just a computer user, not a programmer). They seem be, as I get them appear on the desktop over what I'm ...

Thanks for that. I checked, and it is secure.

Good thoughts, I'll give both ideas a try. Thanks.

I use an extension to auto-delete cookies after I leave a web page called "Cookie AutoDelete", and I only white-list sites I know and use. I've looked at the stored cookies, nothing there I didn't expect. I also use the uBlock Origin and Disconnect extensions with only a select few sites white-liste...

In the last 2 days, I've been getting Cinnamon notifications from outside sources like MSNBC news, etc. I don't even go to those sites. I went into my browsers and checked, and none of the ones I've been getting are "allowed". I can't figure out where these are coming from. I just want to stop them....

OK, thanks, I thought that was the case. It must have been a program that I had before that would check and download updated lists to the hosts file. I do remember you could choose what list or lists it would use and would update regularly. If anyone has any idea of what that was, I sure would appre...

Thanks for your reply.

I can copy that list or others to make a new hosts file in /etc/hosts, but if I did that, wouldn't the list be static? If my memory is right, I remember an app/program that would automatically update the list once per day or so.

When I was using Mint 17.3 in 2015, instead of having an ad blocker in my browser, I had a custom local host file for a redirect of bad sites, ads, etc to 0.0.0.0 instead of the address of the ad server or address of the bad site. It automatically updated the list from a site like this one (I think)...

I just checked the stats for February and before - it is more or less similar back for months. Not sure why this is.

Here is the February 2019 stats for the same site:

I own a few websites, and I was just checking the Awstats on cPanel of one site in particular, and was surprised to see that the main OS for viewing my site is Linux. This particular site has nothing to do with computers or Linux. I don't know why Linux is the main OS, but I thought others might fin...