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I had the same problem/question regarding emblems and couldn't find anything to do it nicely and without hassle, so I wrote a python script for it. You can find in on GitHub: https://github.com/WinterSnowfall/emblem_exporter Essentially, you can use the GIO CLI utility to query for emblem values on ...

... and it so happens that due to an HDD to SSD upgrade I got to reinstall Mint 18.3 from scratch. The problem has not gone away however, so in the end it's not related to upgrading 18.2 to 18.3, but rather something specific to 18.3. But I have to apologize, since I forgot to include one crucial de...

pbear wrote:

Snowfall wrote:Is anyone else seeing this?

FWIW, works fine on my computer, both Mate in my regular install and a virtual machine with Cinnamon.

Thanks for letting us know. Might just have to bear with it until Mint 19 shows up.

It's a graphical application. If you start it with sudo, you may cause permission problems (files that the application has written to, are now owned by root, not by you). This may even be what caused the problem. Ok, noted, and I am aware of the distinction, however this is not what caused the prob...

Thanks, but it hasn't helped. Again, the problem is not with software-sources itself, since I can start it just fine from the command line with "gksudo software-sources" - the options of launching it from the Update Manager and Control Center will no longer do anything. I was expecting the...

I've successfully upgraded a Mint 18.2 install to 18.3, however now I am unable to access software-sources from the new version of the Update Manager or from the Control Center. I can click on both the options (menu item/button) but nothing seems to be launched in the back-end. I was able to get to ...

You only need to wait, until the upgrade option is available. Very true. And I've specified that there will be no issues with upgraded installations since they will not include the upgraded graphics stack by default. However, as far as I know, there is no 'recommended' way to address this in the ca...

If you plan on using the Oibaf - Updated and Optimized Open Graphics Drivers PPA to upgrade your graphics stack on a fresh installation of Linux Mint 17.3, you'll notice that not all your graphics stack packages are updated as they should be from the PPA. The reason for this is simple, and is also c...

k357k9 wrote:Is it faster/quicker than the regular version?

It's somewhat faster. You'll definitely feel the difference on older hardware, but it's not really that noticeable on modern systems.

http://liquorix.net/ is a Debian repository right? It's a Debian Sid repository, so things will typically expect more recent package versions then you'd find in Jessie (on which LMDE2 is based). Sid is the current Debian "unstable" release. Most liquorix packages will work without a hitch...

Thanks snowfall :) at least found someone who dosnt get outraged by adding stuff to Debian :) Not being outraged does not mean I recommend using PPAs with Debian/LMDE ;). It's a gamble at most, and has the potential to seriously mess up your system even if you know what you are doing. I must say th...

You may as well go ahead and install wine from lmde2 repositories , you will get wine 1.6 command line only. Not quite so. This might not work once Jessie becomes "stable", but for now, an easy way to get Wine 1.7 installed (mind you, not the latest - it's at 1.7.29 currently) is by using...

Thanks! That did the trick.

I was rather surprised to see that the "Open as administrator" option in Caja will open up a privileged Nautilus instance. It doesn't bother me that much... but is it not supposed to open up another instance of Caja? Is this the default behavior everyone is seeing or is my system acting up...

You can also try to remove the following packages (depending on your graphic card manufacturer) and see if the freezes stop: For Nvidia: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia and xserver-xorg-video-nouveau For ATI: xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon To do this, open up a terminal and type: For...

It sounds like a problem that I've had with my old PC... I was getting frequent and total system lockups as well, and the only thing I could do about it was press the reset button. I've traced this issue to some incompatibilities between the new version of X.Org (and by new I mean the one present in...

Perhaps you've solved this already, but I'd like to suggest an alternative cause to your problem... Are you sure the problem is caused by your hardware? I've heard that high-frequency sound you are describing too, it is normal for most modern PSUs and it can get pretty loud in cheaper PSUs (due to l...

Hi Tim, I'm sorry to hear that you're having problems, but I'm sure they can be solved with a little patience and some help from the community. Do consider that Linux is an open source operating systems and that not all hardware manufacturers actively maintain or develop linux drivers for their hard...

I'd recommend Mint XFCE as well for a functional lightweight OS on old hardware... you could also give CrunchBang or Salix a try, since they also have a low memory footprint, but ultimately it's up to you to decide which distro better fits your needs (luckily the Linux family is anything but small :...

I'm not sure if this will be helpful, but what you've said so far sounds rather familiar, and I remember having this dilemma too a while back. Does the low grinding noise stop when the hard disk is in use (copying or moving some files for example, or doing a time-consuming export or save)? It might ...