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Were you dual-booting before, as in having 2 different Linuxes, or Linux and WIndows? If so, did you get rid of the other OS?

FYI, for those with Mint 12, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+download is the place to go to get

ubuntu-tweak_0.6.0-1~oneiric1_all.deb

I know that in mint 12 they disabled the splash screen and i have tried using plymouth and splashy however neither will bring back the splash screen and i dont like the entire black screen while booting so any ideas/comments would be great. I came across this: http://cristalinux.blogspot.com/2011/0...

gretta wrote:LibreWriter can't save .docx files.

I beg to differ. Librewriter 3.4.4 saves .docx files just fine. I have a few that I have to edit on a semi-regular basis, and as long as you tell it to keep the current format, or whatever the exact wording is, it'll save the .docx file without incident.

Not sure. It displays properly for me with Firefox 10.

kikloo wrote:Hi,

Which messenger in linux lets me transfer files to Gtalk ? I am using Gtalk in Windows and now I am on Linux and I need to know a IM which lets me use Gtalk and also lets me transfer files. Please suggest.

Thanks.

Pidgin may work for you.

I decided to revisit LMDE. After wrangling with the gstreamer update, I installed Bleachbit and Unetbootin. One of them wanted(needed?) syslinux and extlinux. Who am I to argue? :) Anyway, after everything was installed, the panels disappeared because of (I'm guessing here) either syslinux or extlin...

I've got a computer in my home that I want to put LMDE on but it has no DVD drive, and LMDE has no cd edition. I've tried a few things - I couldn't figure out how to do a grub network boot, and booting the LMDE dvd iso from grub2 as a loopback device resulted in a failed livecd boot. So I'm left wi...

i've just installed lisa with US english as the default language. i'd like be able to switch between a US english and a russian keyboard. this has been easy to set up on every other version of mint i've used, but i can't figure it out on mint 12. google has been fruitless so far. can anyone tell me...

Mike65 wrote:Hy!
I cant find my skype tray icon in lm12. if i close the window i cant find it nowhere and if i start another skype then obviously cant login because of the other one. Any solution or workaround?

Did you click the thing about starting it minimized?

Hi all! I recently got the Humble Indie Bundle 4, and as you may know you, many times you don't get installers, just a tar ball which you extract. Problem is that it doesn't make those games appear in the main menu, so I added them with alacarte. But when I launch them from the main menu, I just ge...

minitrucker wrote:what about usb?

i dont know if furious iso would actually do what you're looking for, but it might be the most likely one if any would.

Is this of any help?

http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/08/in ... -from.html

In my LM12 Administrator account it was straightforward to add Google search engine to Firefox. In my wife's Standard account it just doesn't seem to work - the 'Add Google' message doesn't appear in the drop-down after following the manage search engine instructions. Is this a known issue, or am I...

A friend sent 3 lines of code to be done in a terminal that supposedly does away with non-volatile cookie tracking. I'll post it here: First, snuff the two invisible directory trees where LSOs reside: rm -rf ~/.adobe && rm -rf ~/.macromedia Then add symbolic links to /dev/null, throwing away all inp...

Hello, I wanted to see if anyone else is having issue with Skype screen sharing. When I select full screen sharing my screen goes to a dark grey with the red box around the edges of my screen. The person on the other end will only see my wallpaper and a black square for my cursor. If I right click ...

I purchased the Humble Indie Bundle #4, but then realised that I was unable to install the .deb and the .tar.gz files of Bit.Trip Runner. I believe that this is because it needs the latest libstdc++. Is there some way that this can be achieved on Linux Mint 11 Katya? On Synaptic, I noticed that the...

Today I attempted to upgrade to firefox8.0 and it did not go well. I am now using iceweasel and I am wanting to fix Firefox if possible. I could not get firefox 8 to work so I uninstalled and attempted a reinstall of 5 which is the one I was using to begin with. I have 5 installed and trying to run...

I did not find a "dconf-editor" (with a 'D') anywhere. You may have to install it. I can't remember if it was there after the initial install. Once the app is running, negotiate your way to org, then gnome, then settings-daemon, then peripherals (clicking the little black arrow beside each one). Wh...

Hi, I recently started using Firefox again after a few months trying out alternative browsers (Opera, Chrome). But I am having a small problem here. Whenever I open some web pages (like http://www.ingdirect.it), Firefox opens it in "mobile" mode, as if I am using a browser from a mobile phone or so...

Hello coolpup. I did the following steps: I made the inittab file in the etc folder I edited this file and copied the line id:3:initdefault: and saved the changes but when I restart my Laptop and select in the GRUB the typical option ( NOT the recovery mode), my laptop starts with the graphic envir...