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Thanks to all. As i said in my original mail, "I have tried a Buffalo BDXL Blu-Ray BRXL-PT6U2VB but it is not recognised by Mint." I bought the Pioneer BDR-XD07TS BDXL that Conrad (in Germany) said would work under Linux, although the assistant there said that as I used Linux I would know ...

Thanks for the replies! I am posting the info requested here. When I have read the post through I'll get back again. ps@ps-T430:~$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f...

I want to use an external bluray burner to backup two machines running Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon (and also under Windows). I have looked in the forums for tips on bluray burners that will work under Linux, but without success. I have tried a Buffalo BDXL Blu-Ray BRXL-PT6U2VB but it is not recognised ...

hi, i couldn't find the opera browser in the software manager.
why is there no link to it there?
i was able to install it via opera.com, but it would be simpler for newbie users if it were available in the software manager.

thanks to all at mint for the help you give us!

Many thanks to Damien and Colson for very helpful replies! I've looked at Antix, I'm sure it's fine but I shall miss Mint ... Maybe I shall install 1GB ram (after the lockdown) so thanks a lot to Damien for the specs. As for the keyboard, Colson, I am sure your advice is quite right, but I have been...

Hi there, The old machines have the best keyboards. I have a couple of old Thinkpads running with MInt, my favourite is the oldest, a T410, which is very nice to type with. I was now given an ancient Dell Inspiron 8200 with 30GB harddrive and 256 MB system memory, plus 32MB video memory. It runs a M...

Besten Dank, Karlchen, aber es klappt immer noch nicht ... re: " logging off from Cinnamon once and logging back in might have made the application menu aware of the change." Nope, and as an ex-Windows user of course I tried restarting... re: With your xed commandline suggestions, I get er...

Many thanks Karl for your suggestions. But neither seem to get me any further. As you suggest, I have run the command sudo sed -i '/OnlyShowIn/{s/^/#/}' /usr/share/applications/caja.desktop ...but it makes no difference. I have also searched in the /usr/share/applications There two files called &quo...

Thank you, gm and Karl ! So it's not a bug, it's a feature, as they say, a feature designed to make you pay more attention to every keystroke you make. (And off topic: by the way, Karl, I grew up with Xtree and never used Norton) I've installed the caja file manager and it does what I want it to, gr...

My filemanager (Nemo 3.6.5 on Cinnamon 18.3) now deletes files and directories without asking, even though I have the setting "Ask before deleting files or emptying the rubbish bin". This is a very dangerous bug: 1) I am used to emptying a huge rubbish bin without checking what is in it. I...

Thanks all. We haven't discovered why Ciano doesn't work, so I won't mark it as "solved", but I now have two other programs, freac and soundconverter which fit the bill.

Reply to Australia: Thanks but... ʇı ǝʌןos ʇ,usǝop ʎɹɹos I may be doing it wrong, but with VLC I seem to have to enter a destination file for each track, which is tiresome (because I have lot of music). And it seems to always want to convert my files to MP4 by default. Ciano was good because it is a...

CIANO seems to be an easy, convenient tool for converting audio files but it freezes when I try to convert FLAC to MP3. It works converting to OGG and AAC. I have read somewhere about codecs and LAME and gstreamer add-ons but all the pages I have looked up are a bit to techy for someone like me. Is ...

As a fairly ignorant Linux user, I have set the Update Manager to select updates at levels 1 and 2 ("minimal" and "normal" impact on the system). The update manage now suggests that I also apply some updates at the large and sensitive levels (levels 4 and 5), namely linux-libc-de...

Interesting--can't find But I'm dumb Preferences to start up with "show my windows and tabs from last time", Where is this choice exactly? Cheers Don't believe that you are dumb, with that level rating ;-) I guess it used to be called "show my windows and tabs from last time", n...

In the "privacy and security" section of the preference settings for Firefox, I selected "Keep cookies nad site data until Firefox is closed" (the other option is "until they expire"). But Firefox doesn't delete the cookies when I close the program, I see, they are all...

If you have set Firefox to save your browsing session, i.e. told FF in the Preferences to start up with "show my windows and tabs from last time", then FF will not delete the cookies/data from those sites because they are part of your saved browsing session. Thanks! It looks as if that wa...

In the "privacy and security" section of the preference settings for Firefox, I selected "Keep cookies nad site data until Firefox is closed" (the other option is "until they expire"). But Firefox doesn't delete the cookies when I close the program, I see, they are all ...

Great, thanks. I have installed mupdf and using the command line I can open the oxps. Two questions (if it is not too much to ask...): 1) I can only use mupdf on the command line, I can't find the program listed in the GUI to click on. Where is it or how can I access it without going to hte command ...

Ye, I found that too when I did an online-search. The relevant text seems to be: "Method #1 (recommended) Software requirements: Ghostscript/GhostXPS (version 9.19 or later). To convert OXPS to PDF, simply execute the following command: gxps -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/path/to/output.pdf -d...