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Go to power settings and select what happens when you close the lid, I have it set to nowt so it keeps running. Under the Power option it's not possible to select what should happen when the lid is closed. Closing the lid does not shut down or put the PC in a hibernate state - it still runs but onl...

Didn't think it would be that easy - will give it a try when I get home. Thanks!

I see that in Win 7 it's possible to set the laptop to "Do Nothing" when the lid is closed. Is there any way to do something similar in Mint Debian? I have external monitor, mouse, and keyboard that I'd like to hook up to the laptop.

Thanks for the replies. I decided to install XBMCbuntu alongside XFCE instead. It seems to be working fine so far.

I have installed LM 13 XFCE on my Asrock ion 330D. I'd like to have XBMC automatically start up when the PC is turned on. How can that be set up? Many thanks!

I'm sure the answer is right under my nose, but from googling and searching in this forum I've not been able to find out how to get Skype added to Startup Applications Preferences. I can find that menu well enough but not sure how to add Skype to it. Can someone help, pls?

Inserting Google DNS in the Network Manager fixed the issue. Many thanks for the help!

Something wicked happened resolving 'debian.linuxmint.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) msm, this means one of two things (as craig was saying) - you are behind a proxy - check/change your dns I have LMDE installed on my laptop as well running on the same network and that doesn't...

I'm at work now so can't give you the input, but could it have something to do with the fact that I didn't set up swap, root, and home partitions when I installed LMDE? If you have enough RAM you don't need a swap partition. I never tried running without one but I know others have. I routinely use ...

HughT wrote:looks like you're not connected to the internet - hence 'failed to fetc from http:// etc

I was connected to the internet. I was writing the initial post from the pc. I tried both wired and wireless connections and still got the error message.

I'm at work now so can't give you the input, but could it have something to do with the fact that I didn't set up swap, root, and home partitions when I installed LMDE? The complete hard disk was unallocated space and I just chose a / for the whole disk. I didn't follow the instructions on installin...

I just installed the latest LMDE spin 64 bit, but if I try to install software from the Software Manager or via Terminal nothing happens. When trying to check the system for updates I get a long error message. Here's a shortened version of it: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/debi...

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking that the lxbdplayer might work but do not have the possibility of trying it as I currently do not have a br player: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxbdplayer/

I'm getting an Asrock Ion desktop PC and plan to install LMDE on it. There's a choice between the Asrock with or without a blu-ray drive. I'd like to go for the blu-ray drive but not sure if it's possible to watch blu-ray films in LMDE. Does anybody have experience with blu-ray in LMDE? Any specific...

Yes, unetbootin: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unetbootin/wiki/guide

Have you tried running LMDE from a USB stick instead?

mockturtl wrote:

msm wrote:Bit of a silly question, I know, but how can I install 1.4?

It's in the repos now:

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$ apt policy cinnamon
cinnamon:
  Installed: ...
  Candidate: 1.4.0-lmde1 

So just:

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$ apt install cinnamon

Cool. Many thanks for your reply!

Bit of a silly question, I know, but how can I install 1.4?

I don't seem to be able to install Cinnamon. This is my sources list: # deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import # deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free # deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free # deb ...

Do I replace or add these repositories with the ones already inserted?