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Here are before and after screenshots instead. The first shows a selected menu item without the cursor, the second shows the same selected item with the cursor on. I have experimented with different Cinnamon themes, some button themes work, for example "Mint Y Dark".

In a Java program on Mint Cinnamon, menu items that have an 'active' state are shown with their text as the same colour as the background, rendering the menu item impossible to read until hovered over. I am pretty sure it is Cinnamon related, as the application concerned works perfectly on Mint MATE...

@Dark: Works for me too! I've never heard of Samba. It's possible some of the permissions on my /home partition were wrong due to past attempts to fix problems.

I've switched to Cinnamon and it's fine. Must be a MATE problem.

Well that's clear and unambiguous!

Since fixes it, and fixes it (and looks like Mint ought to look), for that session at least, should I assume that marco is used, and there is something wrong with a configuration file for it?

I've read several threads on this and haven't found an answer. I've just installed Linux Mint. When I first tried Mint several years ago I had problems with missing window decorations which were never really resolved. I've decided to try it again (MATE) but still have the same problem. It may be set...

That would explain it. I expect that was caused by my earlier failed attempts to install the drivers. It's not the first time I have had horrendous problems caused by configuration files hanging around, so I did try sudo apt-get remove printer-driver-m2300w --purge I was a bit more cautious about me...

This is how it looks now: chris@Asus:~$ dpkg -l | grep cups ii cups 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5 i386 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web interface ii cups-browsed 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.4 i386 OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - cups-browsed ii cups-bsd 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5 i386 Common UNIX Printing System(...

The printer is now working. In desperation I installed one of the Cups packages that I was reluctant to install before because it said it would un-install foomatic-filters and I had read somewhere that Foomatic was needed for the driver. There are dozens of those things, I don't know how you are sup...

I got: Since this seems to be to do with users and groups I looked at that and I think they must be the groups I am a member of. Having lpadmin looks good.

This is the result: chris@Asus:~$ dpkg -l | grep cups rc cups 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2 i386 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web interface ii cups-browsed 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.2 i386 OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - cups-browsed ii cups-bsd 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5 i386 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ...

Thanks for the explanatory comments, they mean I might learn something rather than just typing it parrot-fashion. It has revealed something interesting: chris@Asus:~$ /usr/sbin/lpinfo -v lpinfo: cups-deviced failed to execute. chris@Asus:~$ I've also found a useful page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debug...

The printer is there, I get this when I type lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 132b:2001 Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400w Software Centre shows printer-driver-m2300w installed. When I use Menu/Administration/Printers/Add I only see: Enter URI Network Printer It's obviously not a network printer and I have...

Despite my Web searches I didn't find that. It looks like the simplest way of doing it. When I downloaded it, I got the message that it was already installed, but system-config-printer did not show it. I un-installed it and deleted any files or directories with m2300w in and tried again. It installe...

This printer is supported in Ubuntu MATE, there is a driver in the Software Centre, but now I have switched to Mint Cinnamon, I find that there isn't one for it. I did a download (it is called m2300w as that does for both printers), and tried compiling the driver - I don't really understand that pro...

Is it possible to use "preload" to speed this up? If I could work out where preload's configuration file was, perhaps I could put 'mintmenu' in there so that it is always preloaded in memory. Edit: After a bit of investigation it looks as though preload can't be configured to load specific...

Today's (10th July) update seems to have fixed this problem.

Rather than wait until Mint 18 (or later) for Marco 1.8.1, is it possible to update to it by adding another software source then using apt-get install?

I discovered this problem when I installed Mint 17 MATE, I have checked Mint 16 MATE and the same problem occurs with that version. There is a problem with LibreOffice Calc and Writer. If I highlight cells then select Background Colour/Nofill, the panel disappears. It can be brought back by clicking...

In practice, the only way I can think of finding the pre-installation files is by looking at each of the hundreds of directories and ordering them by date, is there an easier way? How would I distinguish configuration files from a package I still use from a configuration file from Mint that I no lon...