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Yes. No charging

Simple question I hope.
I want to be able to charge my Garmin Satnav via the usb port on my computer running Mint 19.3.
However when I plug it in it automounts the sat nav and doesnt charge it.
What do I change to charge from a usb port ?
Thanks

As the person who started this post I can report that the problem resolved itself with no intervention from me. Just one day it started to shutdown fine and has continued to do so
I wont mark it solved as others seem to be having the same problem.

System: Host: Main Kernel: 4.15.0-76-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic Machine: Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A v: N/A serial: <filter> Mobo: Gigabyte model: H61M-DS2 v: x.x serial: <filter> BI...

For the last week or so when I have been shutting down the system I get the message regarding "kernel panic - not syncing" I am using the default kernel 4.15.0.76 - generic and before last week there was no problem. System boots and runs fine. What update could have caused this ? Or is it ...

OK, thanks

I normally work with 4 workspaces, but when I open a .txt file in one workspace it also appears in all workspaces.
Is there a setting I have missed ?
This is mint 18.3 with Cinnamon.

Bumpety BUMP

BUMP

Recently upgraded to Mint 18.2 and cannot now reverse the channels on my speakers (just stereo) I have added the following line to ~/home/user/.pulse/default.pa but no difference - used to work fine. load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=reverse-stereo master=0 channels=2 master_channel_map=front-...

I noticed it also disabled Hola unblocker. However downloading Hola for Firefox from their website does work. Bizarre !

My mother-in-law has managed to delete her taskbar on her Zorin installation and I have been trying at a distance (I'm in France she's in UK) to get it back for her as now she has no way to access the menu etc. I understand that Zorin uses Avant Window manager so I have been searching for that but n...

I went ahead and updated mintsources and then had to apt-get install the 2 removed items.
Everythings working OK but this should not happen - mints bad !

Hi, I have Mint 17.1 Cinnamon with KXstudio repos added as PPA's. The latest update of mintsources is telling me that if I update it will remove the KXstudio repos and KXstudio desktop. I dont want this to happen. If I update will I then have to re-add the PPA's to get back my KXstudio repos ? And a...

richyrich wrote:BlueGriffon will be available in Synaptic by enabling the removed repository in Software Sources.

Many thanks, will give it a try !

According to the post on the community blog BlueGriffon is now in the repos, but I can't find it !
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1695

vito_spatafore wrote:It is almost end of month and NADA

The important word here is ALMOST - patience.

karl,
I have found the error I made. I followed the post later in the link you gave (post 153) which in fact reversed the symlink properties.
Having made the symlink as explained in your post above it now seems to work OK.

Many thanks for your patience.

Bill

Hi Karl, Well I tried that with symlinks etc and can now get thumbnails BUT I for all the photos I have I need to view them in the default viewer before the thumbs are created. This will take ages. Is there no way to run a batch job to thumbnail all items in a folder and subfolders ? This is plain m...