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Have I misunderstood this, that even at login time after a fresh boot, before any login, there is actually a whole theme active? On a single-user system, I can't understand why this would be, when the only interaction widget is the password field. What I want to do is have a login wallpaper that is ...

Thank you Penn for a great explanation. I have the same problem, having just installed Mint 19 on a new 4k 17" screen -- the controls are only a few pixels wide. I have resized the font so the windows are legible, but the controls remain tiny. I am assuming that theme designers have not yet looked a...

Nope. I just installed Mint 19 and the problem is still there. Almost all applications open maximised by default and there seems to be no way to stop it.

Who would be the person responsible for this: obviously not an application developer, someone working on the OS.

I just installed Mint 19 on a HP Envy 17t 4k laptop. All the application windows open maximised. This has never happened before, and I've installed Mint 17/18/19 on several machine. Is there a way to stop this permanently?

I installed Mint 19 last Dec, and added Emacs via apt install. When I start Emacs, I get the error Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7 [5 times] repeated again and again, and the editor is unusable. I do not have any .emacs ...

I just installed Mint 19 on a new laptop — very nice. But some applications are opening full-screen, which they never did before. Chromium and Emacs are two recent offenders, and there may be more. Neither of them has an option in themselves to do this, as far as I know. Something, somewhere is tell...

I'm running Mint 18 on a Dell XPS 15 laptop (the only distribution which installs on this system). The wireless takes several minutes to connect, both at boot and on re-awaken after being closed. Is there a detailed logging feature which can be turned on so that I can try to see what is delaying it?...

^ likely explanation. the Mint startup wants to mount (or at least show as icons) the available hard disks, which of course it can't because the disk is corrupt. If you get up to the desktop then you're already fully booted though. You can try to repair the disk from there, ideally via the Disks to...

My desktop (Dell Optiplex 745 running Mint 18) suddenly started booting very slowly, and didn't seem to be running at normal speed anyway. I rebooted and it refused to start, and dropped to a BusyBox prompt. On exit it gave me disk errors on /dev/sda1 so I ran fsck and it spent 15 mins repairing its...

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JeremyB wrote: ⤴

Wed Jun 28, 2017 7:38 am

It is called that in Ubuntu, I think Linux Mint calls it USB image writer

What is the actual name of the executable?

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Thanks!

JeremyB wrote: ⤴

Wed Jun 28, 2017 7:38 am

It is called that in Ubuntu, I think Linux Mint calls it USB image writer

What is the actual name of the executable?

I just logged into my Paypal account and saw this message: Before June 30th, 2018 PayPal is requiring all account users to update their browsers to remain compliant with new security standards. You will not be able to access your PayPal account after June 30th if your browser isn’t updated. I'm curr...

Oh good grief. I think some people have been trying to place unnecessary interpretations on the question. I too want a minimal boot ISO -- in order to get Mint running on an old but otherwise usable PC which cannot boot from USB (although it has USB sockets) and which has a CD and DVD reader but can...

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately ‘same in all monitors’ is already enabled, and pressing F8 had no effect.

I took a new Dell XPS 15 into class today to use in teaching. It's running Cinnamon (no MS Windows), and has XFCE and Enlightenment as well. I plugged it into the projector cable, as I have done for years with a variety of other laptops old and new, using the Dell-supplier VGA connector, and the pro...

I think I may have found the solution (now using 18.3 instead of 18.2): Don't use unetbootin to create a Mint USB, use dd instead. Apparently unetbootin does something odd with Mint while writing the USB. Install Cinnamon , not Maté . It appears that Cinnamon requires higher-spec hardware, so it che...

On Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:46 pm, WharfRat wrote Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum :) Thank you. Since you cannot boot any linux distro But I can — both Bodhi and Mint boot from USB, and Bodhi even boots from the SSD after installation. it sounds like an overclocking issue or suspiciously li...

I am trying to get Linux — any Linux — to install bootably from USB on a DELL XPS 15 laptop (note I am not trying to dual-boot with Windows; I just want Linux). Most distros I have tried (all the *Ubuntus, Arch, RedHat, Fedora) fail even to boot from the USB, hanging irretrievably while their logo s...