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Crashing the X session? Won't it just regenerate the login manager, GDM? That would waste time and still require further input to initiate full shutdown. This is the message I get when trying to shutdown in this situation: "System policy prevents shutting down the system while multiple users ar...

When I try to shutdown when simultaneously logged into a console and GUI, a dialog pops up asking for my user password, for freedesktop.org/consolekit.multiple-users if I remember correctly. I'd like to shutdown regardless of how many logins I have running, without providing the password.

What a prize... o_O Congrats, AfterEight!

"...no car" Whoops...
Hit fractal cog
Frog tail catch: Because the center reminds me of a spread frog or something.

Very pretty wallpaper! And I'm guessing "Flight car coat"

As I mentioned, I am brand new to Linux and also to disk partitioning and playing with the MBR... So, here's what I've done. Following the dual boot guide, I got to the point of partitioning the disk. Note that my HD is not partitioned, so Mint gives me 2 options: Guided, which would use the entire...

The ones I mentioned are all to partitions on my HDDs, and I don't understand why some are "mine" and some are "root's" - all, I think, created during setup. Possibly, some partitions are being handled with /etc/fstab and some others with udev . Perhaps you can post your /etc/fs...

Thanks, that worked!

Maybe because that little "About me" can store your personal contact info and all. Bit too much functionality--just wanted to add a photo to user's login.

Starting "About me" from Control Center or slab menu, it closes with error before allowing me to use it: " There was an error while trying to get the addressbook information Evolution Data Server can't handle the protocol " But isn't Evolution not installed in Cassandra? Is there...

Every login to the desktop is a surprise: clock gets moved (one time it was "pushed" mostly off the screen, and I don't know how to get the panel to 'scroll' to show off-screen portions), application launchers and modules may be swapped about, main menu'll be anywhere. Happens for "lo...

Well, I was able to continue partitioning after unmounting all the partitions on the target drive. I had to leave gparted open for this, else restarting gparted--or just "refresh devices" from within gparted--would mount everything again. As it is, right after gparted finished partitioning...

Whether or not I run gparted from the main menu or terminal, as normal user, mint, or administrative user, root. it starts up and proceeds to mount all the partitions on the internal HDD's. Frustrating, because you can't modify partitions while they're mounted. OR at least, that's never worked befor...

I use 2 USB drives, and 2 CF cards through a USB reader--any number of them at any given time. They get assigned to sda1, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1 at random (at least, it seems to me!) I would like each drive to always automount at the same mountpoint. I think this can be accomplished with UUID in fstab, bu...

Next, according to the guide, g++ needed to be installed "properly". Then, the installer got much further, but failed at compiling the Volume Control and audio mixer. My selections included ALSA support, but the list of currently running modules suggests OSS-type ALSA drivers. So assuming ...

why don't you just install XFCE from Synaptic, Aptitude, or APT? To check out the newest stable version, 4.4.1 , instead of the 4.3.99/4.3.90/?????? provided by the Bianca default repos (Edgy). To acquire the compatible versions of all the components available. I've had some trouble with parts of t...

Running Bianca, with all updates from default repos. I'm following the XFCE graphical installer guide , found here: http://www.xfce.org/documentation/installers/xfce/ The guide, in listing system requirements, even suggests packages' names for particular distros-- Debian in this case. I did all the ...