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I notice that there is a remove foreign packages function under software sources / maintenance. Is it really wise to have that function there without a more detailed explanation of the possible consequences of removing those/any foreign packages. As a for instance, if I setup a Linux Mint machine fo...

There were 2 Libre Office updates available for update this morning. The download of those 2 updates took almost 30 minutes and the download speed was running at less than 1 kb per second (i.e. extremely slow). These 2 updates should have downloaded in no more than 2 or 3 minutes. Was this speed pro...

Are there any instances or circumstances in which file system operations like copying files from one place to another, or similar operations could be performed by/within the file manager (CAJA) as administrator with SU rights and thus the ownership of the files would be switched from ownership of t...

Are there any instances or circumstances in which file system operations like copying files from one place to another, or similar operations could be performed by/within the file manager (CAJA) as administrator with SU rights and thus the ownership of the files would be switched from ownership of th...

Am trying to upgrade my desktop computer from 19.1 to 19.2 using the upgrade path that is shown under edit options on update manager. However, when I get to the point of actually applying the upgrade the APPLY button is not active. I ran thru this same upgrade on my laptop computer and it worked jus...

gm10 wrote: ⤴

Thu Aug 08, 2019 5:24 pm

karlchen wrote: ⤴

Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:37 pm

It might just be a bug / regression as well.

Looking at the source on github I think I can confirm that.

I do or someone need to possibly attempt to report this as a potential bug ?

Thanks.

Hi, gm10. Confirmed. While xreader 2.0.2 (Mint 19.1) still can open and display image files, this functionality seems to have been removed from xreader 2.2.3. xreader simply refuses, even if I use File => Open from inside xreader. Maybe the reason is that there is no good reason to permit filetypes...

Hm. Will have to repeat the test on Mint 19.2, did it on 19.1: [*]selected a genuine [c].png[/c] file, right-clicked on it and selected to open with document viewer. xreader came up and opened the file. No problem. Xreader 2.2.3 refuses to open any type of image on my system, showing a banner that ...

The problematic file comes back as " PNG image data, 850 x 1100, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced " - I had to rename it to xxx.pdf to get that to work. The non-problematic files comes back as " PDF document, version 1.3 " - I renamed this one to yyy.pdf before running the command. This still does n...

If I launch xreader from terminal and then attempt to open one of the problematic files, it creates an icon with the Adobe symbol in it with the name of the problematic file but if I click on that icon nothing happens. If I do the 2nd suggested procedure what comes back on the terminal is - No such ...

Possible, although it could also just be a bad file type detection/association. When you get the error message about the PNG file, did the file try to open in Xreader or was it maybe Xviewer (the image viewer)? If you're not sure, open Xreader and try to open the problematic files via the file open...

gittiest personITW wrote: ⤴

Wed Aug 07, 2019 5:20 pm

Do you use the same pdf reader on both computers?

Yes, xreader, but, of course, the 19.2 install has a slightly newer version, am wondering if this is a bug in the new version ???

Thanks.

One little problem that I have found so far on Mint Mate 19.2. I have several PDF files of shooting targets all of which open just fine on my 19.1 machine but when I copy them over to 19.2 on another machine only 2 or 3 of them will open. The others come up with an error regarding opening an PNG fil...

Are there any known problems (compatibility / conflicts) or otherwise with installing
and running both Libre Office suite and WPS Office for Linux suite ?

Thanks.

On the Foxpro (predator calls) website it says the following regarding JAVA: The Java edition of the FOXPRO Programming Utility is compatible on multiple operating systems including Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. This page provides you with the information you need to get the software up and running ...

Well then, perhaps my version of Linux Mint Mate is somehow different from yours because I have been doing it for YEARS now and it works just fine !!! But thanks for the warning. For something that works just fine, you sure make a lot of posts (literally dozens?) about problems creating directories...

Also if you put a file in /home/Pictures/Spypoint/somefile, the file won't be in /home/wpshooter/Pictures/Spypoint. Well then, perhaps my version of Linux Mint Mate is somehow different from yours because I have been doing it for YEARS now and it works just fine !!! But thanks for the warning.

wpshooter@Linux-Mint-Desktop-19:~/Pictures/Spypoint$ stat -c '%a %A %U %G %n' * 775 drwxrwxr-x wpshooter wpshooter 2018-09-29 You're switching back and forth between two different directories: In the first post you were at ~/Pictures/, which is the same as /home/wpshooter/Pictures, then later you w...

Thanks for your help, I will keep an eye on it to see if it recurs.

JerryF wrote: ⤴

Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:32 pm

wpshooter wrote: ⤴

Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:31 pm

Boy, I sure would like to know what was causing this problem (other than, I just was not holding
my mouth correct) !!!

There was a permission and ownership problem with the Spypoint folder.

What caused this, do I need to be concerned about this happening again in the future ?