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Thank you very much for the info!

There are heaps of applets there to choose from - I should be able to find something to suit!

Cheers
Pete

Hi once again clever people... I've just installed Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon. (previous happy user of Mint 9) 1) As you can see from the screenshot, there is a quick-access sort of panel thing on the very left of the menu. How can I make this disappear? 2) Not so important, but curious - if I load Mint...

Works a treat, thanks for taking the time to post this tip!

Hi I use Realterm for windoze, and I would like to get a similar program for Linux. (nice GUI, features etc) If you look at realterm's page: http://realterm.sourceforge.net/ and scroll down to the first screenshot - you will see what I like about it - the ability to show incoming characters in many ...

yes | aspell whatever That is brilliant! In case anybody searches the forum in the future... aspell wants you to type in a "1" to accept the first suggestion. Luckily, yes offers the option to output 1's instead of y's. so: yes 1 | aspell check file.txt Thanks for your help! Pete

Hello clever people. I have a large text document, which I have converted from pdf, removed paragraph marks etc, and now I find that a lot of the words have joined together (probably where a paragraph was removed) Example: I have a largetext document Now, open office will easily tell me that it shou...

tdockery97 wrote:Another command that should re-start your sound without rebooting is:

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sudo etc/init.d/alsa force-reload

That works a treat!

Thank you very much!

Pete

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Any ideas, anyone? How do I force the PC to re-initialize the sound card?

Thanks!

Hi inxi -A reports: Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21 Also, the exact wording from exaile is "Playback error encountered! Resource not found" Hope this tells you something Pete

Thanks, I will do that when I get home to my laptop.

Hello again! I've been running mint now for 6 months or so, and its by far my favorite linux ever! :D Imagine this sequence of events: I watch video online (BBC iPlayer, or youTube etc) - no problem. I leave the page open when I close the laptop lid Laptop goes to sleep. I open the laptop, and it wa...

If I open a jpg in gimp, and save it as a GIF, it looks fine.

It's only GIFs from web pages that are the problem.

Is that a clue for anyone?

Thanks!

Sorry, I didn't make myself very clear, there.

Those 2 pictures are photographs I took of my screen with a camera, to show how bad the GIFs look to my eye.

They are then posted on my flickr account for you all to see and offer suggestions

Thanks
Pete

Hi Gurus... As you can probably tell from the title, I seem to have a problem with the display of GIF images. You can see from these sample pics, GIFs are spotty and low quality. An ad at the bottom of eBay page: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5474076761_aaf360a647.jpg ebay by TriggerHappyPix ,...

randomizer wrote:
You want "ln -s /media/DATA

But if you mount this using /etc/fstab it should show on your desktop anyway.

Awesome, it was the little "-s" that made all the difference!

I do mount it with fstab, don't know why it didn't show up.

Thanks for the tip!

Cheers
Pete

Hi I have a FAT32 partition, which is mounted as /media/DATA I would like to have an icon for it on the desktop, so I can access it easily. In the windows world, this would be called a shortcut to desktop. I have tried: Right-click on the DATA folder and select 'create symlink' - nothing happens, no...

SiKing wrote:...You will probably have to contact the developers of the app with this.

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the app (or it's website) has been updated for a couple of years.

I would still love to hear any suggestions for a linux scrabble program.

Thanks
Pete

Hi I'm using the latest version of Mint XFCE. I'm trying to get a version of scrabble to play (against the PC, not a multiplayer) I can download and install quackle - http://quackle.poslfit.com/ , but when I run it by clicking on the icon, nothing happens. If I run it from the command line, I get an...

You are a genius!

Worked first time with a Logitech Webcam.

Thanks for taking the time to write up this how-to to help us noobs!

Cheers
Pete

Awesome, XFCE has sound, and runs quick!

Thanks to all who offered suggestions.

Cheers
Pete