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5 ways to disable the install, upgrade or removal of a package with apt, aptitude, dpkg, synaptic, and Linux Mint's update manager. Where appropriate, replace the word package below with the actual name of the package you wish to put on hold. apt-mark hold is used to mark a package as held back, whi...

Termy wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:45 pm

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Kadaitcha Man wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:09 pm

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@Termy & Kadaitcha Man - From another thread, please note that BTCSMS has stated...

BTCSMS wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:31 am

I was recommended I do not change my username (home) name if my user account is encrypted.
So, it stays what it is.

Why is hostname so easy to change, but username requires a Level 12 NSA clearance? If you do it, expect errors here, there, and everywhere, but... From looking at the usermod(8) manual page, I see you can run sudo usermod -l new_username old_username to change your username, but that won't rename y...

I'm using Cinnamon 20.1 on linuxmint. I added a new theme to home/user/.themes. It doesn't display in the panel so it can be installed. From a quick search I see this has been on ongoing problem with Linuxmint for years. Any idea if this will ever get fixed? After some difficulty I found a way to d...

I don't know about an icon theme named login, but if you go to the Software Manager and enter "icon theme" in the search window, you'll see a large selecion of icon themes. Look at these for some ideas for a good icon theme: https://www.fossmint.com/best-icon-themes-for-linux/ https://itsf...

Automatic updates performs a full update/upgrade (including security updates). :D You don't need any additional updater. But, if an update is really important and you want it right away, you can always perform an update/upgrade rather than wait for the automatic update to kick in. Be sure to have Ti...

...terminal is username@hostname. Is that correct? Yes. It can be done, and I've done it once on a test system. I used the usermod command, but I need to warm you that improper use without specific settings can damage your system. And there may also be problems with certain apps. I have some old no...

Don't know if this will work, but it might be worth a try... mmmmm, its German! no problem, run it with this parameter to get it in Englesh sudo ./linnwt ../app_en.qm Ref: https://zr6aic.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-setup-your-nwt-spectrum-analyzer-on.html So, one might think that in your case, it'll be...

In the Cinnamon source code, the recent files displayed in the recent menu are limited to 20 items: // Showing all recent items isn't viable, GTK.RecentManager can contain // up to 1000 items and this can significantly affect performance // in the JS layer. static const int MAX_RECENT_ITEMS = 20; Re...

Hi Jon, While waiting for DraganTheMighty to assist further, I had a thought. Go to your trash and empty it to see if that helps. Of course, this would only help if you've placed some very large files in it (or a lot of little ones). Does "Disk Usage Analyzer" on your home folder show anyt...

Edit: To revisit the context, OP's original post had ... Android directory "ACIM lessons" with a space ...

I cannot understand where the user and root crontab files (which are edited/created/removed by the crontab command) are stored... Good luck. I want to know this too, and it is difficult. ... For the location of these files, take a quick look in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory. Note: It does ...

Pepper-Mint-Patty wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:20 pm

...I thought it would be something rather simple, like changing a number, as i understand now it turns out to be really difficult to write...

It was fun for me, like a puzzle, and I like a challenge. And I learned a thing or two in the process!

Edit: added context

User tables on Debian are situated in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory, while the system table is in the same place, namely in /etc/crontab. Job tables specific to Debian packages are located at /etc/cron.d; this is where the cron daemon automatically reads them from. User access is regulated...

Might be a file permission problem, or maybe the text in your file. Check the permissions with this (I think I have the right location and name): ls -l ~/Documents/SuspendScript.sh If that looks good, check the contents of your file: cat ~/Documents/SuspendScript.sh Now, as an old timer, I always ma...

Thank you. When I try to save that as SuspendScript.sh I get this error message: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::xed-encoding not supported (Xed is the default editor in Xfce). However, a file appears in the directory. I used sudo chmod +x SuspendScript.sh to make it execu...

You can create a launcher to do this. Here's a very easy way. Right click on your Desktop, and look for "Create a new launcher here...". If you have that option when you right click, you can easily select it and enter the required information to create a launcher. Your command is correct, ...

Good day Jason77,

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Hi DillyDallyDave! Welcome to the Linux Mint forums! There's a lot of good people here who can help with your sound issue. Just do like Pierre says, and someone will try to help. I had the same problem on a number of old laptops. The fix was fairly easy in my case. I just had to add a few lines to a...

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