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Thanks, Pjotr, for the reply. I do appreciate it. :). Yes, increasing the font and cursor size is one approach to making a Desktop environment usable, and I have tried it before, but what I described is actually a bug that should be fixed. It's not a LinuxMint bug (it's present in other modern distr...

Hi, I'm running Cinnamon 19 64bit. In cinnamon-settings display the default resolution is 1280x800 (16:10) for my 9300M GS nvidia graphics card on my laptop. Whenever I try to change the resolution to my preferred 1024x768 (4:3) and I click "Apply", the screen goes black, stays that way fo...

xenopeek, Maybe I should explain myself better. I use a Precise 64 bit mini.iso to install my base system. I then run a bash script, which includes a listing for the Cinnamon stable ppa, to install Cinnamon (2.0) packages. I don't use Mint (never have). Thus I don't have access to the backports repo...

glebihan, This decision to discontinue the stable branch of Cinnamon is going to leave a lot of people out in the cold who still use Precise (like I do and will continue to do so...Trusty is just too buggy for my liking as of now). What are we to do if we wish to do a re-install? The nightly builds ...