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- Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:27 am
- Forum: Releases & Announcements
- Topic: Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" RC released!
- Replies: 55
- Views: 26299
Re: Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" RC released!
Hello forum users and congrats with new release. So far I have only tried the 64bit Cinnamon version booted off an USB Flash drive. Hat's off to a great release. Most of what I wanted to work, did, so it looks like I will be doing a full install once it is released. The only problem I experienced wa...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:19 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Common home with Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 makes problems
- Replies: 6
- Views: 848
Re: Common home with Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 makes problems
You can share /home between distro's as long as you DO NOT use the same user-name for all the different installations.
atlef.
atlef.
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:21 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: System Profilers with motherboard profiling
- Replies: 2
- Views: 522
Re: System Profilers with motherboard profiling
Install lshw-gtk and open with Alt+F2 and type
atlef.gksu lshw-gtk
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:17 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Wacom Bamboo Tablet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1353
Re: Wacom Bamboo Tablet
Have you tried setting it up in Gimp preferences/options?
atlef.
atlef.
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:15 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Favorite Terminal Applications ??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1175
Re: Favorite Terminal Applications ??
Terminator with Byobu runnung irssi.
atlef.
atlef.
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:36 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Run Nvidia Control Panel @ Startup
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2138
Re: Run Nvidia Control Panel @ Startup
You need to run it as root, so press alt+F2 and write
atlef.
and do your changes and it should remember your settings.gksu nvidia-settings
atlef.
- Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:27 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: can't stream .wmv in firefox
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2937
Re: can't stream .wmv in firefox
Could you post a link to the site where you are experiencing this?
atlef.
atlef.
- Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:17 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Thunderbirdsettings from Windows Vista to LinuxMint?[SOLVED]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1258
Re: Thunderbirdsettings from Windows Vista to Linux Mint?
Press Alt + F2 and write in the box: thunderbird -profilemanager and point a new profile to the folder on Vista, which you should find here: On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData%\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse ...
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:23 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Install Wine
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1246
Re: Install Wine
In Mint 7: Open a terminal and type: wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - to add the key. And sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list to add the repository to the sources.list. And to...
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:20 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: VirtualBox: Win7 Already installed on Ext. HDD?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 541
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:57 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: transfering complete system to another PC [SOLVED]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1038
Re: transfering complete system to another PC
This is the great thing about Mint, it detects the new hardware and should work out of the box doing this.
atlef.
atlef.
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:56 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Installing virtualbox in Helena
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5343
Re: Installing virtualbox in Helena
Have you added yourself to the vboxuser group?
If so, open a terminal and issue this command
atlef.
If so, open a terminal and issue this command
and reboot.sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
atlef.
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:24 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Helena live CD boot problems-***SOLVED***
- Replies: 2
- Views: 681
Re: Helena live CD boot problems
Look at this site, and try that example they show, as in adding
If this does not work, try some of the other options mentioned on that site.
atlef.
to the boot parameters.vga=771
If this does not work, try some of the other options mentioned on that site.
atlef.
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:18 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Running the Live CD
- Replies: 3
- Views: 472
Re: Running the Live CD
I do not think you need to enter anything. But not sure.
atlef.
atlef.
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:08 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Partition size & is mint right for an ex-programmer?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 999
Re: Partition size & is mint right for an ex-programmer?
I currenlty have 64 bit Vista with a 686 GB on my C: drive, and 8 gigs of ram. Its formated in NTFS. Id like to make my system a dual boot, with Vista & one of the linux operating systems. 1. How big should I make the partition for Linux? As I understand it, most games wont run under Linux, and...
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:44 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: YAN - Yet Another Newbie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1038
Re: YAN - Yet Another Newbie
You need to install the closed version directly from Virtualbox.org and install that to get USB working.
Windows should detect it as an ipod, if I am not mistaken.
atlef.
Windows should detect it as an ipod, if I am not mistaken.
atlef.
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:47 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Can't install windows after Linux installation!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4535
Re: Can't install windows after Linux installation!
How did you get the .ISO file on the Stick?
Try WinToFlash, if you not already have tried this.
atlef.
Try WinToFlash, if you not already have tried this.
atlef.
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:43 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: YAN - Yet Another Newbie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1038
Re: YAN - Yet Another Newbie
Hello, Since a couple of months I'm new to Mint Linux 7 but experimented on my own, but joined the forums today. The reason why I hanged on to Windows for so long is Gaming, it has much improved but still can improve some more. The reasion why I switched to Mint: because my girlfriend with her 6 ye...
- Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:05 am
- Forum: Sound
- Topic: Good player for classical music on Mint?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1023
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:43 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Memory Card Recovery Program?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 645