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Wow - an interesting and quite detailed answer, so thank you very much. I didn't think to look for "enabled-applets" and this sure seems to be getting close to what I need. Before proceeding, I wanted to determine what the number after the final colon meant. Further searching around using ...

Thanks for the response - that's what I had guessed, but it never hurts to ask. I'll see if I can write up a request just for grins.

Hi: I'd like to reorder the icons that appear on the right side of the panel (although these are the ones on the bottom in my case, since I have a vertical panel). Panel Edit Mode works well for organizing everything else, but even when Panel Edit Mode is active, right- or left-clicking on the right...

Sorry - forgot how to add image on this forum ...

Thanks for the response. When you put "historic diacritics" in quotes, can I assume that's why in the "classical" Greek books I have, I see ἑλλας rather than ελλας? (i.e. no breathing mark over the epsilon). It would be nice to just be able to search out such things on the web, b...

My TimeShift entry of [ linuxmint "6" ] matches yours, although my older entries all say [ Linux Mint 5 (elsie) ], a distinctly different formatting. This must be to follow the standard rule of keeping us poor users on our toes by never doing the same thing in the same manner in the same p...

Thanks to both for your comments. But, to Shiva, mdavies5's solution is not "better." Again, I wasn't attempting to determine what the installed release IS, I was trying to determine where on the disk the GUI display was grabbing it from so I could change it. And I've confirmed (by actuall...

Darn - I was sure I had run a search for the string, but your comment about the quotation marks was apparently right on! Although the string in /etc/linuxmint/info's "DESCRIPTION=" line matches, changing it made no difference BUT -- changing the "GRUB_TITLE=" six lines later did ...

Ok, I'm apparently not sending a private message; the link goes off into la-la land at the moment and I have other things to do. So at the risk of being completely in violation of the forum rules, I'd love to ask you a few completely unrelated questions - since I really can't imagine any others foll...

Thanks much for the response - I have to say that following all the comments here and elsewhere on the subject of Plymouth and NVidia sounds somewhat like βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ to my ears! (I see your Menander and raise you one Aristophanes; sorry, couldn't resist putting my IME to work on a forum). ...

Terrific - yet another place I didn't think to look. The inxi "Distro:" string has exactly what I want to be displayed (and does match the grub menu title, by the way, so your initial point was more appropriate than I thought) but unfortunately, even after a full boot sequence, the GUI Sys...

Well, thanks for the thoughts, but my question referred to the location from which the "LMDE 6 Faye" string on the GUI Cinnamon System Settings panel is read. This actually has nothing to do with grub or the actual boot menu (other than that they decided the PC should load LMDE 6 of course...

On a new LMDE installation I'm doing, there are two files in /etc/default/grub.d (50_lmde.cfg and 60_mint-theme.cfg) that are responsible for setting the grub menu's display theme (defining background image, fonts, sizing, etc.), and while creating my own new 65_my-theme.cfg to replace their setting...

Hi - I'm not sure if this is the right section or even if it's LMDE-specific, but I could use some suggestions. On the Cinnamon System Settings panel, the Operating System is listed as "LMDE 6 Faye" - not surprising, since that's what it is. For cosmetic reasons though, I would like to cha...

For cpedretti ... Thanks again for your very thorough response regarding the NVidia drivers and Plymouth. I actually used grub-customizer for a few years (even with an Ubuntu/Windows dual boot setup if I recall correctly), but there seemed to be so many on-line rants about it that I began to do my o...

Hmmm... Sounds like I've got some investigating to do, but of course life is planning to keep me from doing that until the weekend.

But thanks for the ideas; I'll report back when I get a chance to dive in ......

As requested: System: Kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 5.8.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.38 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: LMDE 6 Faye base: Debian 12.1 bookworm Machine: Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H v: N/A serial: <superuser required...

Well, yes, I know it has nothing to do with Linux per se, but it does write to a specified file, so it is just as useful and, as you say, cool. I'd hoped to avoid firing up a VM just for this since I'd also have to make each of the same changes to that instance as I was doing to the "real"...

On most newer systems, one can even take a screen shot from the BIOS/UEFI screen, but how can I take a screen shot of the log-in screen or the grub menu screen for documentation purposes? I could probably fake the log in screen by just using the image file, but typing in everything to fake the grub ...

In the first step of cpedretti's sequence, I believe the directory name should actually be: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list i.e. no "s" on the word "package(s)" Having said that, I have an NVidia card on LMDE, and the specifics of how this particular br...