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by rickNS
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:32 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: [SOLVED] How to change the time/turn off dst?
Replies: 16
Views: 244

Re: How to change the time/turn off dst?

To rickds: I tried timedatectrl like you showed on the top, but the terminal said it was not installed and suggested timedatectl, like your second example showed, when I tried that it replied with " Failed to set time: Automatic time synchronization is enabled " Apologies for the first in...
by rickNS
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: [SOLVED] How to change the time/turn off dst?
Replies: 16
Views: 244

Re: How to change the time/turn off dst?

That being said, I switched to linux mint a few months ago and have mostly managed to find the help I need so far just by searching,.... My first problem is that I seem to be unable to change the time at all- whenever i click on the clock> properties> time and date settings> unlock> Welcome to Mint...
by rickNS
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How to create a bootable ISO of an existing system? SOLVED
Replies: 9
Views: 188

Re: How to create a bootable ISO of an existing system?

bushyiii wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:55 am Boy am I glad I asked this question, the quality of the responses is nothing short of fantastic.
I will mark my question as solved, ...
Curious what method did you use ?
by rickNS
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:31 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Uninstalling Ubuntu-advantage-tools entails installing ubuntu-pro-client?
Replies: 4
Views: 131

Re: Uninstalling Ubuntu-advantage-tools entails installing ubuntu-pro-client?

I don't know why it's messing with fonts, but it clearly installed pro-client and pro-clientl10n. Apparently, from reading the thread that billyswong linked to, ubuntu-pro-client is a dependency (or recommended package) of ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Member pjotr explains in that thread a way to get...
by rickNS
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Timeshift snapshot taking too long
Replies: 19
Views: 373

Re: Timeshift snapshot taking too long

I'm thinking about (i) backing up Timeshit to a new OS drive partition; or (ii) on a new SSD drive. A simple copy of timeshift snapshots to a new location will not work, links will get broken, you need to use rsync, or just create new snapshots in the new location, you really only need one that is ...
by rickNS
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:24 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Uninstalling Ubuntu-advantage-tools entails installing ubuntu-pro-client?
Replies: 4
Views: 131

Re: Uninstalling Ubuntu-advantage-tools entails installing ubuntu-pro-client?

Are you sure it is installed ? My system does exactly like you say, but there is no installed version. ksnip240318-011647.jpg Also in terminal; rick@t420:~$ apt remove -s ubuntu-advantage-tools [sudo] password for rick: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state inf...
by rickNS
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How to create a bootable ISO of an existing system? SOLVED
Replies: 9
Views: 188

Re: How to create a bootable ISO of an existing system?

An additional thought is to create and ISO of my Florida system and install it on a new box in Ohio. What I didn't know if something like this could work since the hardware is different. It will work as long as first system does not have proprietary drivers (Nvidia) I wrote a tutorial on using Refr...
by rickNS
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: New Discovery, tldr command, "simplified man pages"
Replies: 5
Views: 243

Re: New Discovery, tldr command, "simplified man pages"

It helps to browse Github. It gives recommendations for repositories. I discovered so much Terminal stuff there. tldr, ripgrep, colorls, oh-my-zsh, powerlevel10k, bat, kitty, mcfly, ble.sh, fzf, ... There is a lot of good stuff right here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix THANKS ! There i...
by rickNS
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: Tutorials
Topic: LMDE 6 Senpai's Respin with only the Mate Desktop
Replies: 6
Views: 2161

Re: LMDE 6 Senpai's Respin with only the Mate Desktop

Why not,
Instead of your first "very long" command, why not use the much simpler;

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apt install mint-meta-mate
by rickNS
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:50 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: New Discovery, tldr command, "simplified man pages"
Replies: 5
Views: 243

Re: New Discovery, tldr command, "simplified man pages"

Welcome to the club! It's nice here :lol: Been using tldr for a few years. I just discovered it, "stumbled across it" actually just the other day. BECAUSE, I never seen it on a list of Linux commands, this probably the most complete one I've seen https://ss64.com/bash/ This (or that ?) is...
by rickNS
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:20 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: Battery life in Linux
Replies: 22
Views: 530

Re: Battery life in Linux

I've seen varying figures for how low to let batteries drain when optimising their life (and initially calibrating), with percentages ranging between 10-20% and would like to ask what is the best percentage? Please forget about that % percentage non-sense, there is zero truth in all of that. On the...
by rickNS
Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:05 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: (Solved) shut down "button"
Replies: 3
Views: 108

Re: shut down "button"

It is pretty simple, (still using MATE?)
Right click an empty area on the "taskbar" (but called the panel in Linux)
Click "Add to Panel"
Then select "Shut Down..."
Click "Add"
Done.
by rickNS
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Themes, Icons & Wallpaper
Topic: Custom screensaver with a bash script
Replies: 2
Views: 85

Re: Custom screensaver with a bash script

Guys, is there a way to run a screensaver from a bash script in Mint Cinnamon 20.3? Any other ideas? Thank you IF you just trying to get the Matrix screensaver running ? Install the xscreensaver-extra packages, and you can have it without any scripts; xscreensaver xscreesaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-ext...
by rickNS
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:23 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: Fingerprint not detected on Realme Book Prime
Replies: 8
Views: 198

Re: Fingerprint not detected on Realme Book Prime

And if you think FP readers are easier to get working when the machine is a few years old, you're mistaken. You still can't write a proper driver with no source code, specs, or firmware. No I do not. (FP reader). The last statement was a "generalization' that machines of at least a couple of y...
by rickNS
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:59 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: (( solved) remove part of many files' names within a folder
Replies: 6
Views: 146

Re: remove a part of multiple files' names within a folder

if you stuck on using sed, this works;

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for i in *.mp4; do NEWNAME=`echo "$i" | sed 's/\.mp4//'`; mv "$i" "$NEWNAME"; done
but rename is shorter;

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rename 's/\.mp4$//' *.mp4
by rickNS
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: Fingerprint not detected on Realme Book Prime
Replies: 8
Views: 198

Re: Fingerprint not detected on Realme Book Prime

I also think there's no interest, but maybe it can help other people with the same problem There may indeed be "interest", BUT manufactures do NOT seem to share their information with Linux...Would not surprise me if part of the reason was "hush" money from MS ?. In any case, th...
by rickNS
Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:45 am
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: New Discovery, tldr command, "simplified man pages"
Replies: 5
Views: 243

New Discovery, tldr command, "simplified man pages"

Described as "Read man pages in simple format" or similar on a couple of websites. I do not quite agree with that, it is not man pages, or a substitute for them. It IS IMO a compliment, and a good addition to them. The command tldr <command> when run outputs a short description, and a few ...
by rickNS
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: Linux Mint 21.3 the best Mint OS ever used
Replies: 10
Views: 642

Re: Linux Mint 21.3

I may do an in-place upgrade and see what it's like. Thanks :) I would at least look at the live .iso of 21.3 before you commit to upgrading to it. There were some theme changes, and additions in 21.1, or 21.2 ? I personally did not care for, and I will continue with Mint 21 Vanessa till, Mint 22, ...
by rickNS
Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: Tutorials
Topic: [SOLVED] Different Backgrounds, Desktop Icons for Different Workspaces (LM20.x, LM21.x Cinn, Mate, XFCE)
Replies: 36
Views: 14804

Re: [SOLVED] Different Backgrounds, Desktop Icons for Different Workspaces (LM20.x, LM21.x Cinn, Mate, XFCE)

dj1s wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:42 pm

BTW, the scripts could be anywhere, as long as they are executable and pointed to by the shortcuts.
Yes,...full path...I near forgot,
And is well explained in your step 5, I am sorry, no need for you to change anything.

Again good work on your very short, and efficient looking code.
by rickNS
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: Tutorials
Topic: [SOLVED] Different Backgrounds, Desktop Icons for Different Workspaces (LM20.x, LM21.x Cinn, Mate, XFCE)
Replies: 36
Views: 14804

Re: [SOLVED] Different Backgrounds, Desktop Icons for Different Workspaces (LM20.x, LM21.x Cinn, Mate, XFCE)

Let's do this with private messages. Send me a copy of your switch-desk script. Good work, Thanks. I wonder though how people get this working as you say in the tutorial "With your favourite text editor, create switch-desk in your $HOME folder. " (I got it to work BTW) Should not the scri...

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