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by TeaSwigger
Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:21 am
Forum: Sound
Topic: Sound Mystery - Pulse Audio <SOLVED>
Replies: 2
Views: 668

Re: Sound Mystery - Pulse Audio

Pulseaudio is "on top of" ALSA, usually the actual sound system. It may be useful to try alsamixer. Open a terminal, type alsamixer and press enter.
by TeaSwigger
Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:25 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: File manager that displays Media properties
Replies: 3
Views: 495

Re: File manager that displays Media properties

Mediainfo is an app that can display, well, media info; it is available in the repositories as mediainfo-gui. Once installed you can opt to open a media file with it and it will display the properties. Nemo, the default file manager in Cinnamon, can display some properties in list view. You may need...
by TeaSwigger
Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:46 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: Ghosts of days gone by (Ancient Linux)
Replies: 58
Views: 7538

Re: Ghosts of days gone by (Ancient Linux)

You know, back in the day, computer user/geek and science fiction fan were two things which can near universally went hand in hand. Back in the 80s and even early 90s, it was utterly unfathomable that someone you'd talk to who was into computers (anyone here remember when that phrase actually meant...
by TeaSwigger
Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:46 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Flacon not converting audio files
Replies: 3
Views: 1080

Re: Flacon not converting audio files

Hello. I've also used flacon for splitting cue+flac to separate files and updated to Mint 20 (xfce and Cinnamon) with the latest flacon (from their ppa, not flatpak) but it's working perfectly for me. A few quick thoughts Are the export settings correct? Where to save files is a writeable location e...
by TeaSwigger
Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:47 pm
Forum: Themes, Icons & Wallpaper
Topic: modern cursors
Replies: 9
Views: 1676

Re: modern cursors

The cursors I favor are breeze. Variants I've found are the standard gray, adapta, amber, blue, hacked, light aka snow, obsidian, purple, red and turquoise. Wish there was a Mint green variant! :mrgreen: . The standard gray and white (aka Snow) versions are of course in the repos as the breeze-curso...
by TeaSwigger
Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:54 am
Forum: Sound
Topic: FLAC to MP3 with ciano - doesn't work
Replies: 8
Views: 1299

Re: FLAC to MP3 with ciano - doesn't work

Soundconverter, as Hosier Bob said, or KDE's soundKonverter, which is less simple and more configurable, are both good GUI apps for doing batch conversions.
by TeaSwigger
Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:00 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Thunderbird profile path
Replies: 1
Views: 1413

Re: Thunderbird profile path

Should be a 'hidden' folder named .thunderbird in your user's home folder, so:

/home/[your user]/.thunderbird
by TeaSwigger
Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:57 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: From Tara to Cindy
Replies: 16
Views: 2317

Re: From Tara to Cindy

Alternately one could rename one's old home folder in the old /home partition whilst in the live environment, say append 'backup' to the folder; when installing, select the existing /home parition, configure the installer to use it as /home as one would to create a seperate /home parition but do not...
by TeaSwigger
Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:31 pm
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: What is your favorite internet search engine and why?
Replies: 109
Views: 20038

Re: What is your favorite internet search engine and why?

Like jimallyn above, I tend to use startpage and avoid anything Bingy. I prefer to associate Bing with Crosby or Cherries...
by TeaSwigger
Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:43 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: How to run FIREFOX without pulseaudio, by using "apulse"
Replies: 4
Views: 5812

Re: How to run FIREFOX without pulseaudio, by using "apulse"

@Flemur , you might add in your initial post that apulse is available in the repos for Mint 19 / ubuntu 18.x
by TeaSwigger
Fri Jul 27, 2018 2:10 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: easytag crashes on LM19
Replies: 6
Views: 807

Re: easytag crashes on LM19

If I may, in the event you haven't already gave it a go, another tagging app that's been around a long time is kid3. It is a KDE app, but they offer a version called kid3-qt which doesn't drag in all of the KDE stuff with it and may be a fine option depending on your needs.
by TeaSwigger
Tue Jun 26, 2018 2:38 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: In version 18.3 Cinamon where is /etc/fstab?
Replies: 5
Views: 1035

Re: In version 18.3 Cinamon where is /etc/fstab?

I made a mistake I cannot fix: I did: sudo mv -v /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim /etc/cron.dail (daily without y) I suppose I need to copy the content of this file in a file named fstrim and put it back to /etc/cron.weekly. But the system says I do not have sufficient permission. If that was the whole comm...
by TeaSwigger
Fri Jun 15, 2018 7:01 am
Forum: Themes, Icons & Wallpaper
Topic: Ambiance Dark theme giving me troubles in MATE (Solved)
Replies: 8
Views: 2836

Re: Ambiance Dark theme giving me troubles in MATE (Solved)

Would this theme (ambiance darkess) work under xfce ? (I realize this could be a silly question since Mate is base in GTK, but just in case ....) It does. The thing is not so much the desktop but which version of GTK 3 is being used vs which version(s) the theme was designed for. One way to see whi...
by TeaSwigger
Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:48 am
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: What would you use if Mint wasn't available?
Replies: 74
Views: 14290

Re: What would you use if Mint wasn't available?

Not sure what I'd use but I'd try pretty much anything before I'd be used by er, use Windows or other corporate product from similar ilk. Likely in order, the top candidates would be: Xubuntu, SolydX, Debian w/xfce. Would certainly miss the friendly attitude, extra layers of ease and debugging Mint ...
by TeaSwigger
Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:38 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: What do you advanced users do to achieve great quality sounds in Linux Mint 18.3?
Replies: 12
Views: 3980

Re: What do you advanced users do to achieve great quality sounds in Linux Mint 18.3?

For audio, I either use the above suggested Audacious (configured in settings to use ALSA Output, the relevant sound card's 'Direct hardware device without any conversions' and 'Direct control device' mixer, no software volume control, no replay gain etc) or the super-light terminal-based mocp (conf...
by TeaSwigger
Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:57 pm
Forum: Xfce
Topic: Screen Tearing V18.3 XFCE
Replies: 3
Views: 3146

Re: Screen Tearing V18.3 XFCE

In Desktop Settings > Window Manager I'm using 'Xfwm4 + Compton' and not getting any tearing issues in Mint 18.3 xfce (AMD w/radeon drivers). Perhaps the issues are driver related. In my case, for an example, I had to tweak the radeon config in 18.2; I can't recall if it was carried over or not need...
by TeaSwigger
Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:40 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Preparing for Mint to drop the KDE distro
Replies: 267
Views: 71998

Re: Preparing for Mint to drop the KDE distro

If Mint and KDE are going to be so compatible that it will be fairly easy to install KDE on top of xfce then why doesn't Mint continue to offer a KDE-embedded distro/iso? It is my impression, perhaps mistaken, that there's nothing wrong with taking Mint xfce and replacing xfce with KDE from the rep...
by TeaSwigger
Wed May 30, 2018 7:54 am
Forum: Themes, Icons & Wallpaper
Topic: Oomox - GUI for generating themes (Cinnamon, GTK2, GTK3 and Metacity)
Replies: 6
Views: 6545

Re: Oomox - GUI for generating themes (Cinnamon, GTK2, GTK3 and Metacity)

There was such a great variety of themes and relatively easy customization options back in the gtk2 days. A silly personal quirk as it may be, I like to have theme elements jive with whatever image/graphics are on the desktop. I do like mint's green theming :mrgreen: just not all the time. Of course...
by TeaSwigger
Tue May 29, 2018 7:02 pm
Forum: Themes, Icons & Wallpaper
Topic: Oomox - GUI for generating themes (Cinnamon, GTK2, GTK3 and Metacity)
Replies: 6
Views: 6545

Re: Oomox - GUI for generating themes (Cinnamon, GTK2, GTK3 and Metacity)

Hi Smurphos, thank you for the 'heads up' on this handy theme tool. :) If only we (using a recent xfce/Cinnamon/mate DE) could just pick any colors for any element via a color theme interface like KDE4 had and it'd be applied to whatever theme we were using. That made it so easy to customize themes ...
by TeaSwigger
Tue May 22, 2018 4:13 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Preparing for Mint to drop the KDE distro
Replies: 267
Views: 71998

Re: Preparing for Mint to drop the KDE distro

It'd be like dissing an entire distribution just because you don't like its default web browser. I agree. Several years ago I forever discarded opensuse - simply because I didn't (still don't) like their logo. But, that's kinda the point is it not? My quality of life has not diminished because I ch...

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