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Another vote here for recoll . I have used it for several years and it can be extremely useful when searching for files containing a specific word. It creates a database of file contents which can be fairly large but is nevertheless worth it; searches are extremely fast as it uses that database so d...

It sounds as if your USB disk is now lacking a partition table, so using gparted go to the Device menu -> Create Partition Table, accept the msdos default type and after that you can create a partition of the full size of the disk. I've never used "Disks" so I don't know if that has the same options...

You can not set permissions for a fat32 drive using chown or chmod ; you will have to either allow the system to mount it automatically which will give it correct permissions, or set the mount options in the /etc/fstab file if it is mounted at boot up, and is always connected. See https://askubuntu....

A snapshot will not be as helpful as a copy of the text output from terminal which was asked for by Larry78723 so pleaee run that command and show us the output.

It looks as if I may have been too hasty when I said the terminal does not echo typing (as is the case with Ubuntu which I currently use); I understand Mint now shows asterisks as you type. Sorry about that but things that I was not aware of have changed in Mint. You mention you "logged in under sud...

Tell us in more detail what your problem is because I do not fully understand your question. In terminal your password is not normally echoed on screen as you type so your problem in terminal may not be the problem you believe it to be; just type carefully and hit Enter and it will probably work. Wh...

I presume you used your username that you use in that command and did not actually type "username"?

Try it with henrym or whatever you use for your uisername.

Another vote here for VLC which will play just about anything. For ripping CDs I always use abcde; it's command line only but still very simple and fast to use, and will even rip to several filetypes simultaneously if you need, eg flac for storage and mp3 for a player if that player will not play fl...

Check the groups to which you as user belong in the VM Guest with command groups,; if you are not in the vboxsf group you must add yourself to that group with command and then probably reboot the VM.

Not sure how easy it is to install Windows 10 after Mint and keep Mint safe, but as an answer to your query about creating a partition for Windows, I suggest you use a live Mint USB to shrink the Mint partition with gparted, and simply leave empty space which I'm pretty certain the Windows installer...

The easiest way to be certain of the downloaded ISO images is to use a torrent client for the job; that checks as it downloads packets and if anything is doubtful it downloads that small packet again.

Vilsen wrote: ⤴

Sat Jun 22, 2019 4:37 am

Where do I find these settings ?

Can I use dconf-editor ?

You need to go to the Tools menu of the skype window, Settings , General, and disable the "Automatically start Skype" there.
Changes you make there will change the settings in your own user session-autostart settings.

The standard firefox is not available in the LMDE3 repos, I'm afraid, only firefox-ESR is there. Probably the easiest way to get the most recent version is to download the archive from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/download/thanks/ then extract it into a folder in your home and simply run th...

Are you using the cinnamon DE, as I found that a problem in my VM of LMDE3 and promptly removed it and started using Xfce4 in its place; much faster and more to my liking. However, you may find that cinnamon will work better without 3D acceleration enabled; I disable it on all my VMs. You may also g...

This is not quite as simple to answer as you might wish. In an MBR installed system, ie, a non UEFI machine, a boot flag is not needed at all by Linux installations though if you have it on the root partition it will do no harm; the boot system will simply ignore it. The boot flag in such an MBR sys...

Is this an internal disk or external, eg USB disk? Do you have Windows on a separate hard drive to this problem one with the NTFS partitions, or are those partitions the installed Windows OS? Do you have fast-start enabled in Windows? If so, it will explain your problem as that put Windows into a fo...

I have tried both of the Arch derived distros Manjaro and Arcolinux and in my opinion Arcolinux is the better, though of course, you may disagree and prefer Manjaro.
It is certainly worth having a look at Arcolinux, however, and making up your own mind.

You must change the autostart setting of Skype in the skype settings, not in Mint's autostart settings, then it will retain whatever setting you set.

This sounds as if it is a permissions or ownership problem, unless, of course, those partitions/folders you can not write to are system folders, eg /usr, /etc, /lib, etc etc. They are correctly owned by root and not writeable as user. Please show us the output from command ls -la in your terminal. H...

No, never. As a user of Xubuntu I run the LTS versions only (ie, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04 etc etc) and install the most recent version of that after about 6 months, to allow any bugs to be squashed. That means a new Xubuntu version every 2 years which I believe is a good compromise situation, and much be...