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- Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:29 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Firefox Home Page
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7392
Re: Firefox Home Page
I might have misunderstood, but you only need drag a tab to the Home Button for it to become your homepage... no need to go into Preferences etc.
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:12 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Is there anything Better than Nemo? SOLVED
- Replies: 7
- Views: 457
Re: Is there anything Better than Nemo?
Can't answer that question without starting a war between fanboys/girls ;) However, install Thunar from the repos, it shouldn't pull in too much Xfce stuff. I use it daily (I'm on XFCE though), but I used it on Cinnamon and Mate a few years ago too... It takes seconds to load a few thousand image th...
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 3:30 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: <SOLVED>'Machine Voice'... how to disable this feature
- Replies: 4
- Views: 977
Re: 'Machine Voice'... how to disable this feature
It's not a "feature"... your PC is haunted 
Seriously, I'm not on Mint, so can't check, but it sounds like the Screen Reader (Orca?). Look in Accessibility settings and disable it.

Seriously, I'm not on Mint, so can't check, but it sounds like the Screen Reader (Orca?). Look in Accessibility settings and disable it.
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 3:21 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Use of TimeShift for 2 systems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 856
Re: Use of TimeShift for 2 systems
Wouldn't it be sufficient just to identify each backup (as you make it) by adding the computer ID to the 'comment' line in the Timeshift snapshot list (as that's what I do). All my Linux Mint 18.3 backups from 2 laptops, 1 desktop and one 64GB USB stick go to a single 'timeshift' folder on a 200GB ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:58 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: Debian vs Ubuntu base bugs
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1412
Re: Debian vs Ubuntu base
I'm not really sure what you're asking either, but maybe an explanation of some of what goes on behind the scenes will be useful - it's aimed at Debian developers, but you might find some of it useful, and it's "from the horses mouth", so to speak: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu/ForDebianD...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:55 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: cinnamon vs (customized) xfce
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4266
Re: cinnamon vs (customized) xfce
64 bit Debian Stretch-based Distro - XFCE uses just under 300mb after boot. Uses less than 800mb with Firefox (three tabs open) and Thunar (2 tabs) running, and 3+ Panel applets + Whisker Menu etc. And programs launch instantly. So I don't get why Mint should need so much RAM... I know some of it is...
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:32 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: How often to run BleachBit
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2296
Re: How often to run BleachBit
I will say one thing, as it doesn't seem to get picked up on often: There's one option that seems to confuse people when running Bleachbit as root - the Package lists option under Apt . Many people check this box and reclaim anything from a few MB to 100s of MBs, but it's actually pretty pointless. ...
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:34 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: How often to run BleachBit
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2296
Re: How often to run BleachBit
I'm afraid you're unlikely to get any useful replies in this forum... you'll get the usual "Danger Will Robinson! It's a software wrecking ball!". And you'll get the "It's perfectly safe, select everything". You'll not get too many that are between the two that give reasonable ad...
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 1:56 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Searching for an advanced firewall
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2853
Re: Searching for an advanced firewall
Iptables was capable of block/allow per application, but the required option was removed from the recent versions. Netactview will show you realtime connected IPs - have a read of Karl's post here to install it. There are no per-Application Firewalls for Linux... although there are plenty that are ...
- Sat Aug 04, 2018 1:03 pm
- Forum: Other topics
- Topic: Zenity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 544
Re: Zenity
Zenity is just a small program for creating GUIs (dialogs/windows) from shell scripts or the terminal - quite a few scripts depend on it, so it's perfectly normal to have it installed. If it was running, then it was most likely called by a script. Typing zenity --question --text "Are you sure y...
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:07 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [SOLVED]Firejail/firefox.profile whitelist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 571
Re: Firejail/firefox.profile whitelist
There's no need to touch the main profiles in /etc/firejail - just create your profile in ~/.config/firejail , firejail looks there before etc/firejail/. Here's my firefox.profile from ~/config/firejail include /etc/firejail/firefox.profile blacklist ${HOME}/Desktop blacklist ${HOME}/Documents black...
- Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:25 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [CLONING] How to clone an installation of Mint 19 to another PC
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6706
Re: [CLONING] How to clone an installation of Mint 19 to another PC
Umm... Mint includes Timeshift by default. Just backup the entire source PC and save it somewhere, load up a Mint liveUSB on the target comp and run Timeshift live, select backup of original that you saved, and you're cloned. Indeed, I've been doing this for years... long before Mint adopted Timesh...
- Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:44 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED][Run at startup] inputattach at Mint 19 startup
- Replies: 2
- Views: 380
Re: [RUN AT STARTUP] inputattach at Mint 19 startup
I'm not using anything based on Ubuntu ATM, but
rc.local
should be in /etc - systemd will still use it. If it's not in /etc, you can just create it... this should do the job:Code: Select all
printf '%s\n' '#!/bin/bash' 'exit 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/rc.local
sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local
- Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:56 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: Why oh Why can't we make Linux better looking
- Replies: 104
- Views: 13368
Re: Why oh Why can't we make Linux better looking
Unless you spend your time staring at the desktop, or staring at the File Manager, most of what you see is down to the program you're using. How Firefox looks is down to Mozilla not Linux. I know there are limitations due to the OS, but compare say, Firefox to Vivaldi - both do the same job but look...
- Sun Jul 01, 2018 4:44 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Firefox 61
- Replies: 5
- Views: 590
Re: Firefox 61
The Ubuntu team seems to be dragging their feet on this one, usually it's much faster. It can be a difficult balance between security and stability, no Distro gets it 100% right (IMO). A couple of the Distros I use updated to 61 a few days (also, Chromium to 67+), but not all. Have a look here to s...
- Fri Jun 29, 2018 3:27 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Firefox 60.0.2 released today. When will it fit the update manager?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 814
Re: Firefox 60.0.2 released today. When will it fit the update manager?
60.02 was released on 6th June... it's version 61 now. I can't tell you when/if Mint will get either
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:16 am
- Forum: Ethernet
- Topic: Apply button disabled in network manager security
- Replies: 2
- Views: 749
Re: Apply button disabled in network manager security
That's usually caused by a field on that tab not filled-in... check that all required fields are filled-in and see if that activates the button.
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 1:14 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: An experience with Timeshift and the space it uses
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7066
Re: An experience with Timeshift and the space it uses
I've been using Timeshift for years... deleting all snapshots, either via Timeshift or via a Filemanager or the command-line, has always done exactly that... deleted all of the directories and their contents. This isn't what you've described, but there's often some confusion about how hard links wor...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:01 am
- Forum: Open chat
- Topic: The "fox" is buying the hen house??? Microsoft purchases Github
- Replies: 52
- Views: 4001
Re: The "fox" is buying the hen house???
This has absolutely nothing to do with this topic, and equating one with the other is ridiculous and I'd guess offensive to some.michael louwe wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:11 am[...]
Blaming Github is like blaming the victim. <removed by admin as we don't need to drag such nastiness into it>
[...]
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:26 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [Resolved] Can someone build a bootable GRUB utility ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 465
Re: Can someone build a bootable GRUB utility ?
Probably more than what you want, but it can't hurt to have one or all of these The Super Grub2 Disk might be best... only 20mb too