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I'd like to reduce the allure of websurfing and time-wasting by turning my computer into a grayscale machine. How can I do that?
My laptop is a Toshiba E570. There's no discrete GPU. Running Cinnamon Mint 19.1.

Question 1 I'd like to be able to type emojis on my Linux Mint laptop (pariticularly in Gimp) as we can in our Android phones. So I installed Noto Color Emoji (https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/) from https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/ . In Character Map, I choose "Noto Color Emoji" ...

Fortunately, it survives reboots.

Thanks, Kyphi. The second command you shared did the trick. If I recall, in an older version of Mint (I can't remember if it was Cinnamon or Mate or Xfce I was using then), whatever your last-saved folder was was the save-to folder for future PrintScreen presses. It's a cute hamster eating a carrot....

[I am not sure if I'm posting in the appropriate subforum. I thought this could fit under the "Software" too. Let me know if this is the wrong forum, and I'll request the mods to move it.] Using Cinnamon 19.1 Tessa, I press PrintScreen button on my computer and I see a "Save Screenshot" window pop u...

Ok plan to do so when I return to computer.

Thanks so much, folks.

I installed gcstar and unfortunately it can't view/open the books.tc file

I've received a .TC file which is to be opened by Tellico. Tellico is a KDE app (http://tellico-project.org/), and I prefer to stick to apps meant for my Cinnamon Mint 19.1 Tessa. What would be the native app for me?

i've just learned that the program cannot use java 10 but can use java 11 . So i'm going to install java 11 on to my computer .

Hello fellow Minties! Can someone help me install Freeplane-1.7.6 (https://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/freeplane/freeplane%20stable/freeplane_bin-1.7.6.zip) onto my Mint Cinnamon 19.1 Tessa? After I extract the archive, I try double-clicking the freeplane.sh file, but it says "Freeplane is not ...

Kindle 1.17 (the version I gather you're trying to install) was rated Platinum for Wine 2.15, Hi pbear, thanks for taking the time to write back. Yes, Kindle 1.17 wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1ubuntu1) is what I have, BTW. A few things you could try, no promises. First, I assume you ran winecfg already. Ha...

It's a shame how screwed up Wine has become. There may be a more elegant solution, but what I've been doing in LM19 is installing apps in Terminal, using a command in the form wine /path/to/app.exe . If the path and/or app filename are long, copy-and-paste from File Manager: Properties. This works ...

I have wine-stable installed. I'd like to install/run an .exe program (Amazon Kindle, "Kindle for PC Installer", from http://download1.mediafire.com/5xd2cbkbiujg/ku208jm2ccqvn1w/KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44183.exe). How do I install this exe program? When I right-click on the exe file in Nemo, I se...

I couldn't find documentation, even on the URL i linked to.

I just downloaded it and all three programs are already executable.. I launched mitmweb and got: [bill@XPS] ~/Downloads/temp $ ./mitmweb Web server listening at http://127.0.0.1:8081/ Proxy server listening at http://*:8080 Are there any instructions for this thing :?: Good question. Apparently it'...

I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon. I'd like to use mitmweb and found the official site on https://mitmproxy.org/. I downloaded the "binary package" by clicking the big button and it downloaded https://snapshots.mitmproxy.org/4.0.4/mitmproxy-4.0.4-linux.tar.gz . How do I install/use the mitmweb fi...

I'm pepperminty and I'm a, gulp, phoneaholic. I've been sober for 23 minutes. I'm looking for help. I'm looking for something that will lock down my phone and will only let me use one of three apps when I tell it to. The three apps are Amazon Kindle, Moon Reader, and Play Books. I've checked out man...

After my post 2 minutes ago, I did

sudo apt install qt5ct qt5-style-plugins

and restarted VLC and now VLC is back to a dark theme. I guess I need q5ct for VLC to be dark themed.

I upgraded from Cinnamon Mint 19.0 to 19.1 and now VLC is back to a light theme. gm10, there are three options under "window style":

1. Fusion
2. Windows
3. System's default

None of the 3 give me dark theme.

Just makin a note to myself and others in my shoes.

During the installation process, choose the 2nd option

See Step 5 in https://linuxmint-installation-guide.re ... stall.html