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19.3 Mate: no option for either Eject or Safely Remove appears in Caja when I right click on an external USB drive (HDD or SDD). The only option for removal is " Stop ". If I select Stop , no notification appears and so it's anybody's guess when the USB disk can be safely removed. I use Disks (in Ac...

Sorry for replying so late, I hope it may be of help to someone. There are several typos in AndyMH's reply. The command for generating a Wine 32 bit prefix is: WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="~/.newprefix32/" winecfg or equivalently WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="/home/YOURUSERNAME/.newprefix32/" winecfg Alw...

I just tried 19.3 Cinnamon alongside Mate (in dual boot). Mate seemed to me more responsive and just a bit less customizable than Cinnamon, so I have gone for it. I just don't like the new Mate icon for the Network Manager but I can live with it...

I have installed Mint 19.3 Cinnamon in my laptop (HP 250 G3, i5 4210U, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD Crucial mx500) alongside Mint 19.1 Mate and Lubuntu 18.04.3 . The following comparison is not really significant, but as far as first impressions go... Boot (I set autologin to test this): both 19.3 Cinnamon ...

Sorry for replying so late, I guess the OP has already solved one way or another, but this may be of interest to someone else. Libreoffice Draw is very convenient for filling up pdf forms. Open the pdf document with Libreoffice Draw. You can then fill in forms that have suitable input boxes but you ...

I just noticed something similar using 18.3 Xfce. A workaround I just found was to click on Video > Fullscreen (Video > Always Fit Window was automatically selected) Does that help? I regret it does not, VLC behaves just the same way. By the way, I also found out how to turn off transparency in the...

Update: I have "discovered" a difference between the Lubuntu and the Mint VLC: the control bar is in solid colour in the Lubuntu version and it is partly transparent in the Mint version (that is, when it appears at all). I am going to investigate this a bit more. By the way, does anyone have a simil...

Hi, I have Mint 19.1 Tessa and Lubuntu 18.04 in dual boot. When I start VLC in full screen mode the control bar should show up when I move the mouse. In Mint it does not: it sometimes appears if I keep moving the mouse for a while but its behaviour is quite erratic. If I move the cursor where the co...

I know that the last post is six months old, but I wish to thank rui no onna for the simple and elegant solution to the problem. update-grub and install-grub did it. Many thanks also to Pjotr for his advice and his easylinuxtipsproject, which proved very useful. My past experience with Grub Customiz...

Why so aggressive, love? While I can of course not know what obscure instructions you may remember, the official instructions suggest to do exactly what I was referring to: https://clonezilla.org/livehd.php The page you link to exactly specifies the procedure I mention (the 'obscure instructions' I...

This is an advantage of using "dd", it can run in that minimal environment. Running e2fsck on the backup is required. OK, that's fine. But I think the main arguments stand: a reboot is required and dd also backs up free space, unless one zeroes and uses conv=sparse. I am not trying to say that dd s...

While not CloneZilla specifically, my GRUB has several entries to boot a number of file system images, so I guess you can count me. It's a very useful feature of GRUB. Your way of drawing conclusions from premises is... interesting. You don't have Clonezilla between your ISO images to boot to there...

IMHO, documentation that is lacking is not a product of lack of time but lack of understanding of its importance in creating something of quality the author wants. [...] For software that may run as "root" and that deals with vital components (like the root filesystem) the standards of quality must...

We even specifically forked Mint's version of Timeshift That's good to know. If the author is seriously committed to his job, as he seems to be, would it be possible to raise some money for him, in some not-too-conspicuous way? But this is surely not a matter for discussion here. Since we already d...

Entitled much? Be happy you get the program for free at all, nobody is under any obligation to write a free operating system and supporting software for you, nor the documentation for it. Be happy so many enthusiasts spend parts of their free time letting you profit of their work for free already. ...

I read that the author of Timeshift only recently decided that his income from donations was insufficient and henceforth would be charging for it. You can't blame Mint for that if it happened after you installed Timeshift. Thank you, I am actually very happy with Mint. For a time I have been disapp...

So does that mean I would clone both sda1 and sda2? That's OK, you have an EFI partition in /dev/sda1 and a Linux partition in /dev/sda2. It's better to make images of both: it's always good to have a copy of the boot partition, parts of the grub and connected files are in it and the image is quite...

@mchandler How difficult is it to restore a cloned image using Clonezilla if I've borked my system and just want to return to a known, working state? This is actually Clonezilla's main use. You install Clonezilla to a flash card or a DVD then you power off and reboot from Clonezilla's medium. Clonez...

I installed Mint 19.1 Tessa two weeks ago, in dual boot with Lubuntu. I have been using several Linux distributions for some 20 years and I am very happy with Mint, especially because it is solid and all the subsequent installing went incredibly smooth (HP network printer, Virtualbox, Dropbox etc.)....