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Quick Fix: Shifting to 'Strict mode' in 'Privacy & Security' settings fixes the issue in Firefox.

try vido, a graphical youtube-dl frontend available @ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vido/ Installs in the user space so need for admin privileges. It installs an up to date local copy of youtube-dl, without causing a conflict with the global version, which can be updated from the gui itself. The ...

Using privoxy on Mint 20 Mate/Cinnamon, https ad url blocks are appearing as proxy refusing connection blocks.
example: url https://www.agrifarming.in/green-fodder-production appears as

LM 20 - Mate edition: wnck-applet constantly increases in memory consumption going from 30 MB to over 100 MB and then crashes asking to reload the windows switcher, workspace switcher & show desktop. Screenshot at 2020-07-14 03-55-19.png Screenshot at 2020-07-14 03-41-23.png Screenshot at 2020-0...

Cherrytree is now available for LM20/ubuntu 20.04 as deb file and its based on GTKMM-3.0. Download the testing version 0.99.5 from the cherrytree site https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/#downl. Works nice with LM20. Direct link to the version https://www.giuspen.com/software/cherrytree_0.99.5-1_amd6...

error code 100 may occur if another package manager has an apt lock on it. close software manager and synaptic before you run the hplip 3.19 file and make sure you have mintsources installed.

open update manager and click refresh. that should fix the red x icon

Tkinter (since Python 3.1, ttk) and math are included with linux mint standard Python distributions. Please make sure Tk 8.5 or higher is installed.
run the following to make sure you have all the dependencies installed.

If its only the mac machine that has italicized fonts then its the settings of the web interface or the browser that is responsible. On webmail you do not always have the control how your mail will appear on the other side unless you use HTML format and the receiving party allows your formatting to ...

Please attach the log file so that the troubleshooter might help you fix the problem.

when pasting a screenshot expand the details tab so that the troubleshooter might have an idea of the issue plaguing you.
it'll be helpful if you tried and post the error you get, if any, and as Moem said clean the browser profile.

to avoid using sudo everytime you update mkdir -p ~/.local/bin wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O ~/.local/bin/youtube-dl chmod u+rwx ~/.local/bin/youtube-dl once you have created the .local/bin directory, mint will add it to the path the next time you log in. so logout and log ba...

How are you trying to install it? try installing from sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/ ... ip/3.19.8/ directly. use the run file.

synaptics is a linux package manager and works only with linux. Also this is a linux forum, try a windows forum for help with windows system.

use tlp for controlling disk parameters like spindown time, apm , power output to disk etc. TLP is an advanced power management tool for Linux. use to install tlp and to edit the configuration use

Use firefox to browse to localhost:631. When you click on any action that requires privileges an authentication box will appear and you can enter your username password to gain access. Chrome/chromium doesn't work and takes you to Unauthorized page. Screenshot of authorization box on firefox Screens...

Ubuntu as base should be continued. One major reason - It can detect and install propriety drivers for hardware. Linux mint is a great distro for windows/mac converts. Auto detection and istallation of propriety h/w is important for making this shift. Ubuntu is popular because of the tools it create...

LMDE is easy to shift from rolling to stable release by just using squeeze repositories and updating the system as the DVD was spun before the release of Debian Squeeze Stable. But we have a couple of old machines which can be usable only under the lighter XFCE. But as the iso for mint XFCE was spun...

The problem occurs because the package gnome-core(meta-package) tries install various packages including evolution, xchat etc which may conflict with linux mint version (specially Xchat). A simple solution is open update manager preferences and add gnome-core to ignored packages. Hit Refresh to relo...

I was wondering if it will be possible to release a Mint debian stable edition based on the latest squeeze. I am using mint debian on my laptop and am pretty impressed by it. However for the desktop servers I have to use either Mint 9 - stable or have to go through the ordeal of configuring the debi...