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- Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:53 am
- Forum: Suggestions & New Ideas
- Topic: Mint Installer - Place default to Manual Partitioning
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1025
Re: Mint Installer - Place default to Manual Partitioning
It is always very difficult to save stupid people from themselves.
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:48 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: Why did you switch to linux mint?
- Replies: 206
- Views: 31682
Re: Why did you switch to linux mint?
"sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" is not exactly cumbersome.oscar799 wrote:Once I'd got rid of the "brownness" Ubuntu was a huge improvement on Vista.
The only problem was that getting all the required media codecs was cumbersome,and not always successful.

- Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:12 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Install DNS server on Linux Mint
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1596
Re: Install DNS server on Linux Mint
Sorry, misunderstood your question. Read this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=236093
- Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:57 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Need some help here... (UPDATED - 18 Dec)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 686
Re: Need some help here...
5.Do we have these kind of software for Mint? i)Internet Download Manager ii)Everything iii)CCleaner iv)Sandboxie etc i) flashgot, dx3, wxdownloadfat - many others ii) many, many search facilities for Linux - I'll let you choose one iii) Computer Janitor - already on the system iv) chroot: already ...
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:07 pm
- Forum: Other topics
- Topic: What Happened to my Music?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 552
Re: What Happened to my Music?
There is a way to sync, but it looks sort of involved - a good project? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Porta ... ces/iPhone
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:49 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Midnight Commander use mouse in edit screen
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1124
Re: Midnight Commander use mouse in edit screen
Show us your output to "mc --version" run in a terminal. You should see this: GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.2-pre1 Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish With builtin Editor Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database With subshell support as default With supp...
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:54 pm
- Forum: Xfce
- Topic: Configure xfce4-terminal in Mint 7 Gloria [SOLVED!]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4713
Re: Configure xfce4-terminal in Mint 7 Gloria
1) I want to change the font and font size. Edit, Preferences 2) I want to remove the terminal startup funny message http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=845 3) I want to change the contents of the prompt on each line. 4) I want to change the colors in the prompt. http://www.cyberci...
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:46 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Clean console please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 455
Re: Clean console please
This question has now been asked at least 50 times on this forum:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=845
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=845
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:41 pm
- Forum: Xfce
- Topic: Add force-exit applet to xfce4 panel Mint 7 Gloria [SOLVED!]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2609
Re: Add force-exit applet to xfce4 panel Mint 7 Gloria
Does Ctrl-Alt-Esc work? In many distros that brings up "xkill" the facility you want. If that combo does not work just go to Settings, Keyboard Shortcuts and create a keyboard shortcut combo (preferably Ctrl-ALt-Esc) and attach it to the command "xkill".
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:30 pm
- Forum: Sound, Multimedia, & Codecs
- Topic: How to set default media player
- Replies: 2
- Views: 829
Re: How to set default media player
double click "Computer" icon, Edit, Preferences, Media and make your choices on that screen.
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:19 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: Why did you switch to linux mint?
- Replies: 206
- Views: 31682
Re: Why did you switch to linux mint?
jhk30: suggest you read this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuEyeCandy
and this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324119
and this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324119
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:12 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Floppy Drive A
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1886
Re: Floppy Drive A
As I said above you need to run that command BEFORE you insert the floppy disk, then insert the floppy disk, then open the file manager ("Computer" icon), then access the floppy drive and THEN post the messages that will have been written to the terminal.
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:52 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Floppy Drive A
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1886
Re: Floppy Drive A
When I put the quotes around those commands I mean to highlight them - not for you to put the quotes!!!
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tail -f /var/log/messages
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:51 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Partitions Not Displayed Correctly
- Replies: 4
- Views: 476
Re: Partitions Not Displayed Correctly
That really is quite strange - you are correct, nautilus should be showing the partition sizes as do df -h and fdisk -l. Very strange. The only thing I can suggest is go to the Nautilus/Gnome website and their forum/mailing list and see if there is a solution there.
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:21 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: gmail and eml files Solved
- Replies: 2
- Views: 798
Re: gmail and eml files
.eml files are Windows Outlook Express email files. You can import and read them with Thunderbird and I think any good email client. You can also just open the .eml with a text editor (gedit) and look at it - it is just a silly MS format text file....
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:19 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Partitions Not Displayed Correctly
- Replies: 4
- Views: 476
Re: Partitions Not Displayed Correctly
Show us a screenshot of what you mean and also the output to the following commands run from a terminal:
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df -h
sudo fdisk -l
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:16 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Increased RAM usage since update
- Replies: 2
- Views: 437
Re: Increased RAM usage since update
That information is not enough for us to help you because memory usage is quite complex and depends on whether that memory has been cached or buffered or not. My suggestion is to learn to read and understand the "free" command in a terminal ("man free" for more details). This wil...
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:06 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Floppy Drive A
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1886
Re: Floppy Drive A
You missed the space between the f and the / . See my command above.sszindian wrote:-desktop ~ $ "tail -f/var/log/messages"
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:10 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Mint upgrades start automatically as soon as I click on it.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 333
Re: Mint upgrades start automatically as soon as I click on it.
Menu, System, Administration, mintUpdate, Edit, Preferences ....uncheck those you do not yet want to update. Or set the check updates to longer intervals (weeks??) and only click the icon when you have time to wait for the updates to complete. Remember, with Linux you can be in control (only if you ...
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:37 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Floppy Drive A
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1886
Re: Floppy Drive A
OK - one last try. Open a terminal, type "tail -f /var/log/messages". Insert a known valid floppy diskette with data on it into the floppy drive. Then open nautilus and try to access the drive. Post to this thread the messages you see in the terminal. Also, with the diskette still loaded s...