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I have upgraded several machines from LMDE3 to 4 following the tutorial, mostly without serious issues. But on one old eeePC, since after this upgrade the lid switch is now ignored. I had set power management to Hibernate on lid close, which was working on LMDE3. Suspending or hibernating via start ...

In my mintupdate — but I run LMDE4; Ubuntu Mint might come later.

I Can See Clearly Now … TB 78.3.1-2 in Mint’s updater… let’s hope they are right and it’s stable. Thanks!

Huh? To my knowledge, there are no ESR for TB anymore; the last one was 17.0.11 .
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TB 78 introduces an (for me) important change from Enigmail / GnuPG add-on to TB-integrated OpenGPG. 78.2 was not yet quite ready and therefore not released for automatic updates. 78.3 is now deemed ready and was yesterday 2020-09-24 released for automatic updates. Any idea when it will appear in Mi...

Seems that Jitsi Desktop has problems with Java >8. Luckily Java8 is also installed in LMDE4, just not easily selectable (update-alternatives would change it for all apps). My kludge for the moment is to edit /usr/bin/jitsi and change the javabin variable: #javabin=`which java` javabin=/usr/lib/jvm/...

I just upgraded a machine from LMDE3 to LMDE4 following https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2475 . The upgrade process went smooth, but it left several things broken. One of them is my Jitsi Desktop application which I do need: It hangs on startup, throwing a LOT of messages, starting with...

Well... there's kind of hackish way to upgrade LMDE 2 MATE to LMDE 3 Cinnamon+MATE... https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3635#comment-145312 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3635#comment-145378 Actually, no need to install Cinnamon before the upgrade... dealing with the mint-info + mint-user-guide combo is...

Old age. https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2016-October/009673.html Uh, that post and its follow-ups doesn't sound quite optimistic… The there-mentioned https://downloads.mariadb.org/connector-odbc/ would probably also take some work to set it up properly for LibreOffice, I'...

Yes, in LMDE2 an apt-file update was needed, I see now. Thanks again!

Ah, Monsta to the rescue again — thanks a lot! Didn't think of apt-file. did the trick, BeeBeep is now up and running.
Funnily, that search returns no results on another LMDE2 system although libqt4-network is installed there…

Another of the many little troubles installing LMDE3 and to get the previus setups running again… The nice little intranet LAN messenger BeeBeep is built using Qt4, needing several libs. http://beebeep.sourceforge.net/ On LMDE2 I did — apt install libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui libqt4-xml libxcb-...

Since regrettably there is no easy upgrade from LMDE2 Mate I'm now starting to do fresh installs of LMDE3 (on ≈14 quite different machines… ugh!), running into many small troubles. One of them is this: For LibreOffice to access a MySQL database on a server I need to install and set up several things...

Thank you monsta, this explains it.
So, LMDE should now probably have such a ~/.xsessionrc as a copy from ~/.profile, I think.

@catweazel — right, I was still thinking SysV, I'm not used to SystemD yet.  Will look into that. Since I plan on rsync, the Samba shares on the server won't be used and may be unmounted; the local drive need only be readable, network must still be active (was connected via user's NetworkManager). B...

Hmm, that all sounds quite convoluted.  Maybe I should not look at Linux's shutdown but at Cinnamon (Mate) logout? Is there a way to hook into the desktop's shutdown (and delay it as necessary), before it finally calls system shutdown? When the user clicks the DE's button “Shutdown” (or logout)? For...

What would be the best way to run a script in userspace at shutdown? I'd like to reliably synchronize mail folders and profiles from the local disc to a server when the user shuts down its LMDE3/Cinnamon machine, like so: rsync -vahz --delete /home/<user>/eMail/ <user>@server:eMail/ rsync -vahz --de...

Hmm… that's a bit surprising.  And the virtual terminals / ssh behave different.  I see that as a bug. 
Where where they sourced in LMDE2 (Mate)? Can't see it.

Just did a fresh install of LMDE3 and found this: In Cinnamon desktop, a freshly opened gnome-terminal does not have $HOME/bin in its path. Which it should have according to ~/.profile, and did have in LMDE2. While the virtual terminals (CtrlAlt-F1) do add my ~/bin to their path, a ssh shell also ad...

Yes, it's just arrived.  The simple way, by retiring TB from the Mint repos, thus freeing the Debian repos. A little problem is that the binary has now moved:  from /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird to /usr/bin/thunderbird → /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.  So user–modified scripts and links may need t...