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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: Worried & need help RE: Inet activity and Tbird difficulties?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 190
Re: Worried & need help RE: Inet activity and Tbird difficulties?
Thank you xenopeek Mint 21.2 Mate default LiveMedia system:. For BOTH user mint and sudo ... $ timedatectl timesync-status Failed to query server: The name org.freedesktop.timesync1 was not provided by any .service files $ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd --no-pager ○ systemd-timesyncd.service Loa...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: Worried & need help RE: Inet activity and Tbird difficulties?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 190
Worried & need help RE: Inet activity and Tbird difficulties?
Esteemed Forum Participants & Lurkers . . NOTE: Linux Mint 21.2 Mate 64-bit on LiveMedia ROM I just converted to LM21.2 Mate 64-bit in the past 4 months and I think it is the reason for some difficulties I am having with Thunderbird fetching my CenturyLink.net ( YUK! ) email ??? The System Moni...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: AppImage: "Special Options": What are they? (Answer!)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 194
AppImage: "Special Options": What are they? (Answer!)
Blessings Forum Participants & Lurkers! . . . Special thanks to BenTrabetere NOTE: LinuxMint 21.2 Mate 64-bit running LiveMedia on Locked USB ROM drive I am late starting with AppImages . I'm trying to set up Arduino-IDE on my machine. Normally I just find the distribution DEB files and write a...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 9:00 pm
- Forum: Scripts & Bash
- Topic: SOLVED: How do I launch xsane from bash and not exit when terminal closes?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 828
SOLVED: How do I launch xsane from bash and not exit when terminal closes?
Esteemed Forum Participants & Lurkers: Well, I finally got it to work solidly with a setsid --fork command! setsid(1) — Linux manual page #!/bin/bash cd /media/mint/ext2-64g/0_os-saves/lm21p2/apps/bro-scanner-work echo "Initializing Xsane Scan to LETTER size"; sleep 1 cp --force bro-s...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:47 pm
- Forum: Scripts & Bash
- Topic: SOLVED: How do I launch xsane from bash and not exit when terminal closes?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 828
Re: How do I launch xsane from bash and not exit whem terminal closes?
Blessings xenopeek ! Thank you for a noble attempt ... Your first suggestion opens xsane and then falls into the "Goodbye" sleep, but the exit closes BOTH the terminal AND xsane . The second suggestion opens xsane but ' waits ' before "Goodbye" sleep and exit , and so the termina...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 1:35 pm
- Forum: Scripts & Bash
- Topic: SOLVED: How do I launch xsane from bash and not exit when terminal closes?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 828
SOLVED: How do I launch xsane from bash and not exit when terminal closes?
Esteemed Forum Participants & Lurkers: NOTE: Linux Mint 21.2 Mate 64 bit LiveMedia from locked USB thumb drive I have bashed my head against the wall for over two hours trying to do a simple job ... 1) Run a bash script in a terminal which loads a PARTICULAR scanner configuration script into th...
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:14 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: HOW TO? Thunderbird Filter on Email Addresses?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 202
Re: HOW TO? Thunderbird Filter on Email Addresses?
Thank you Cosmo! LM 18.3 = Tbird 52.4.0 <-- I only run this because it is the newest system that supports my parallel port printer & UnetBootin LM 20.2 = Tbird 78.8.1 <-- This is my main system (no printer, no UnetBootin) Filters reside in the user PROFILE , which is on my "email" USB ...
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:19 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: HOW TO? Thunderbird Filter on Email Addresses?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 202
HOW TO? Thunderbird Filter on Email Addresses?
Blessings Esteemed Forum Participants & Lurkers! NOTE: Linux Mint Mate 64 LiveMedia systems on ROM - 18.3, 20.2. Thunderbird v-52.4.0 and above. I'm trying to set up a Thunderbird Filter set to filter a group of people's emails by their email addresses, but Thunderbird doesn't seem to be able t...
- Tue May 17, 2022 8:24 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Is there a program (or setting) to prevent my system from freezing caused by tabs with videos playing?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1189
Re: FIREFOX 95 BUG: my system is freezing caused by tabs with videos playing?
Esteemed Forum Participants & Lurkers: With respect to this Bug 1755038 Firefox 95.0 hangs Linux system solidly (memory usage?) , I can report that Firefox 98.0.2 is far superior in operation. There is still no warning when approaching memory limit, but it is much harder to FREEZE the system, a...
- Wed May 11, 2022 7:01 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Is there a program (or setting) to prevent my system from freezing caused by tabs with videos playing?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1189
Re: Is there a program (or setting) to prevent my system from freezing caused by tabs with videos playing?
THIS IS A BUG IN FIREFOX . I opened it 3 months ago. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755038 Comment #7: by Moritz Wilhelmy at 2022-05-09 16:41:28 PDT Hi, I've been plagued by this issue for years, it's good to see that it has been reported. What I currently do is start firefox in its o...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:00 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 791
Re: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes ???
Blessings CRNProducer ! That is VERY interesting information, but unfortunately, with LM20.2 MATE , only the SLEEP setting is available in the Control Center Power Management GUI: PowerMgmtGUI.png Can someone please post a command line tool to perform the required Display Power Management functions...
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:17 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: SOLVED: Samsung printer model M2020 won't print
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2051
Re: SOLVED: Samsung printer model M2020 won't print
Blessings SnapTech!
What version of Linux Mint are you running?
Blessings in abundance, all the best,
Art in Carlisle, PA USA
What version of Linux Mint are you running?
Blessings in abundance, all the best,
Art in Carlisle, PA USA
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:11 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 791
Re: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes ???
xset -dpms does NOT prevent the blackout problem ... not if you execute it before opening Firefox, not if you execute it after opening Firefox. The -dpms switch attempts to control the " Energy Star " features ... of the monitor??? I don't know how that relates to Linux Power Management ....
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:13 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 791
Re: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes ???
I restarted the system and ran the OP video ... it had a screen blackout at 10 minutes. I stopped that video and started the train video that ran for 1-1/2 hours in the previous comments and it had a screen blackout at 10 minutes. I restarted the system and ran the train video first and it had a bla...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:49 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 791
Re: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes ???
The Display Power Management mentioned by djph is included in the Mate Control Panel Screen Saver tool. I set it to "Never". That also sets the Display power in the Power Management tool. I found a lengthy YouTube Train Cab Ride video and started it to time it. Well, folks, it ran for over...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:59 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 791
Re: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes ???
Blessings and Thank You djph ! 2 Tabs - " General " has nothing relevant to the display - only power button and battery operation. " On AC Power " Actions - Put computer to sleep when inactive: NEVER Display - Put display to sleep when inactive for: 30 minutes I can change the D...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:59 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 791
Re: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes ???
Blessings and Thank You mikaelrask ! I really just want to be an "appliance" user. I just don't have a lot of time for fiddling with LM to get it to work. LM 18.3 has worked fine for me since 2017 (as did previous versions starting with v8 in 2010), but switching to LM 20.2 is giving me n...
- Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:13 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 791
LM20.2 Mate / Firefox 95: video is 'interrupted' every 10 minutes?
Blessings Esteemed Forum Participants & Lurkers! In this lengthy and tedious process of trying to switch over from OBSOLETE LM 18.3 to LM 20.2 , I am really tired of dodging myriad 'rat traps'. Here is the latest one ... LM 20.2 Mate 64 USB ROM LiveMedia Firefox Browser 95.0 (64) for Linux Mint...
- Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:50 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Mint 20.2 on USB Stick with persistant partition
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3731
Re: Mint 20.2 on USB Stick with persistant partition
Blessings Obsolet ! I have been running LiveMedia systems exclusively for about 10 years now. A LiveMedia system is a " squashfs " system. It is in compressed form on the drive, and only decompresses and loads into a memory ramdisk only what is currently needed, and whatever you install a...
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 10:05 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: LiveMedia SYSTEM: Problem with mint-meta-codecs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 663
Re: LiveMedia SYSTEM: Problem with mint-meta-codecs
Blessings Esteemed Forum Participants & Lurkers! Linux Mint 20.2 Mate 64-bit I have had no problems duplicating loading the " mint-meta-codecs " on Mint 17 and 18 . All I needed to do was a " sudo apt-get install mint-meta-codecs " and then copy all the files from " /va...