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Normally, if a linux package is available in the repository you should use it, however often we need to use a software that is either not present in the repos or has a bug or is simply outdated. Only in such cases you can either the download it from its official website, or appimages, flatpaks or sn...

The connection timeout could be because of connection problem at your end or at the mirror or because of the outdated package definition. apt update followed by apt install dosbox if that doesn't work try changing your mirror to a different one. Note: I was able to install dosbox and run it by insta...

If vlc doesn't work for on your machine properly, like for me. you can try smplayer (mpv frontend) for a vlc like experience. You might, however, have to configure the appearance a bit to transform it into something less scary than the default skin it ships in.

~:$ apt remove mintwelcome mintbackup Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: mint-meta-cinnamon mint-meta-core mintbackup mintwelcome 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 28 not upgraded. After this ...

Couldn't exactly comprehend what you mean by adding a thumbnail to panel? Do you mean adding icon to the shortcut ? That can be done by right clicking the shortcut in panel, then chose edit, click on the icon and choose the appropriate image file. Screenshot from 2021-11-19 02-19-49.png Screenshot f...

couldn't reproduce the issue with firejail_firefox_google maps combination.
you can however try to run firejail with either --trace or --tracelog to find out which system calls or files/directories the are getting accessed.

It's very unlikely that your machine or kernel would be the source of the forgotten login information. Its more likely that the config file is either getting deleted or is not created properly. Kindly see if there is a checkbox which says 'remember me' that needs to be ticked

IMHO, It's best to follow this guide by nordvpn to download the ovpn config file and import it in network manager https://support.nordvpn.com/Connectivity/Linux/1061938702/How-to-connect-to-NordVPN-using-Linux-Network-Manager.htm This saves you from installing any third party software unnecessarily ...

To find where a certain program has put its files use the command apt content <program name> example: apt content uget to filter out the sound files you can use grep in conjunction with the command eg: apt content uget | grep wav which will return the all the wav files in uget as below /usr/share/so...

Mint 20.2 Apparmor profile for firefox is blocking access to GPU resulting in poor performance of Firefox sudo aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox Setting /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox to enforce mode. with apparmor active: ~:$ firefox [GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI [GFX1-]: glxtest: pro...

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 ...

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