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I was lost trying to tune powertop service on boot with mint, after install powertop with in terminal sudo apt install powertop after doing a sudo powertop --calibrate do this to auto tune Open terminal cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/powertop.service [Unit] Description=PowerTOP auto tune...

Yup, this is a deal breaker for me, also rolling back to 19.3 now...

Hi, I have a three monitor setup that works perfectly. Linux mint cinnamon however has the monitors named incorrectly. They are listed as Samsung Electric Company 23", Samsung Electric Company 24", and Samsung Electric Company 23" monitors - while in actual fact they are 24", 27&...

Hi, I have a Dell XPS 9560 (4k model, but used in 1920x1080) connected to a displaylink docking station which has 2 external monitors (Samsung 1920x1080 1 via hdmi & 1 via DSUB) attached to it. I have 2 problems with it: Problem 1: Sometimes when I power on after shutdown, the external monitors ...

Was also ogling this one when altair4 already responded, so shall just add... Additionally to his already mentioned x-systemd.idle-timeout I tend to also stick in a x-systemd.mount-timeout=10s or so so as to have the mount / the access not wait indefinitely for a potentially non-reachable server; m...

Thank you so much, this worked perfectly! Sometimes I'm baffled...what's really strange is, that this was working perfectly for almost a year, then I got a raspberry pi 4, & moved the samba share to it...since then I've been experiencing this problem... The only thing that changed in my /etc/fst...

Hi, I have a samba share on a raspberry pi on my network. The entry in /etc/fstab on my laptop is as below. Every time I restart, I have to manually run sudo mount -a in order for the drive to be mounted. Can somebody please help me figure out why it doesn't automatically mount on startup? I have go...

Thank you, I switched to another icon theme, made the changes I required, then switched back to Krona.

Thank you for the ownership suggestions as well!

I really appreciate this community!

cat ~/.cinnamon/configs/menu@cinnamon.org/*.json { "layout": { "type": "layout", "pages": [ "panel", "menu" ], "panel": { "type": "page", "title": "Panel", "sections": [ "pan...

Thank you, but I still get the same result.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I upgraded to Mint 19.3 yesterday. My start button disappeared after the update, but I put it back from Applets -> Menu. If I click on the cogs icon in the applets window, or right click on the start icon -> configure. Nothing opens. Can you please help me to solve this? Thank You in advance! System...

Hi, My system is running perfectly except for this extremely annoying problem. I'm on an XPS15" 9560, and using a Targus USB docking station (displaylink). Everything is working nicely, except that sometimes on boot the external screens are not recognized. I can then login fine (with docking st...

Switching to the nouveau driver solved the screen tearing problem for me. Don't know the impact on gaming performance though. Might be worht a try.

Hi, I've been looking to find out how to style the popup indicated on the screenshot for a couple of weeks now without any success. I've tried changing all of these css items, but none of them target that popup specifically .window-list-item-box:active, .window-list-item-box:checked, .window-list-it...

Hi,

In 19.1 there is only one screensaver available, which is perfectly fine. Is there a way to center align the date & time though?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, Please help me, I'm at my wits end. I have tried completely reinstalling mariadb server, but without success. sudo service mysql start results in: Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mysql.service" and "journalctl ...

Filling in blanks for various characters in various languages would make a nice thread! How about umlaut? two dots above o and u and a in German aren't so obvious, not are the various diacriticals in Vietnamese, and so forth. krustybaguette Use Compose key, then double quote character, then your le...

Maybe the G+ & Facebook links need to be removed if they're not supported.

Just thought I'd help, will mark the issue as solved.

Hi, I realise that this probably isn't the place to post this, but https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/auth/login is broken. I can't login with G+ or Facebook. Do not have a github account to try that. Maybe somebody can get in touch with the correct dev to inform them of the problem. G+ returns: ...