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- Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:59 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: What the f**t (font)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 207
- Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:58 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: What the f**t (font)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 207
Re: What the f**t (font)
LINUX FONTS ARE UGLY! I have said it before, and will say it again, Linux could use some graphical design love, and better fonts and font scaling. Some fundamental linux software is from "freedesktop.org" and it is truly awful, and, judging by the number of posts in this forum, two of their attempt...
- Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:45 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: What the f**t (font)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 207
Re: What the f**t (font)
With the code they suggested to prevent it being converted into bit-map: That seems to be an issue with 'wine' also, so in my ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf I have <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap"><bool>false</bool></edit>... Edit: I see it's exactly the...
- Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:40 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: VLC opens multiple instances
- Replies: 4
- Views: 61
Re: VLC opens multiple instances
I dumped vlc and switched to smplayer. Your mileage may vary!
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:06 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: System stuck at splash screen after some change with gedit
- Replies: 10
- Views: 113
Re: System stuck at splash screen after some change with gedit
Pro Tip! Before you change important system files, make a backup copy!
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sudo cp lightdm.conf lightdm.conf.save- Mon Nov 12, 2018 4:27 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Changing Drive Names
- Replies: 5
- Views: 92
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:36 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Terminal- fixed fontwidth SOLVED
- Replies: 10
- Views: 108
Re: Terminal- fixed fontwidth
Unless you're claiming that there's a font in which the characters are supposed to overlap each other (which font?), like the OP's
i in "terminal" rendered in the middle of the m, the problem is because of crummy font software.- Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:55 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Terminal- fixed fontwidth SOLVED
- Replies: 10
- Views: 108
Re: Terminal- fixed fontwidth
Thanks, but the problem is the fixed width, the caracters are allmost on top of each other. The spacing on your terminal is a mess. I had the same problem with synaptic (never really solved). Dunno about "Mate", but on other terminals, you change the font like... rt-click on terminal background -> ...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 2:16 pm
- Forum: Sound, Multimedia, & Codecs
- Topic: high quality audio on linuxmint
- Replies: 12
- Views: 315
Re: high quality audio on linuxmint
The main thing is avoiding resampling, People couldn't recognize an extraneous A/D/A conversion: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html (a little over half-way down) The speakers and how they interact with the room can almost be considered one thing. ANY live sound tech knows this. ...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:48 am
- Forum: Other networking topics
- Topic: 403 forbidden
- Replies: 5
- Views: 97
Re: 403 forbidden
"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated."
I think that means "try again" because https://www.farmandfleet.com/ works fine for me.
I think that means "try again" because https://www.farmandfleet.com/ works fine for me.
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:05 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Resize the Font in this Forum Solved
- Replies: 5
- Views: 87
Re: Resize the Font in this Forum
Hold control key, press "+" key. "-" key for smaller.
Ctrl + zero-key resets. You can also probably set a minimum font size in your browser.- Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:37 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: How to use conky
- Replies: 2
- Views: 89
Re: How to use conky
I downloaded conky-all and a conky GUI but can't find any of them. How do I use it and configure it. I tried google not much help except commandlines. I was just fiddling with it in another thread; some notes: $ conky without a ~/.conkyrc file shows nothing on the screen. $ conky -C > ~/.conkyrc $ ...
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:47 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Software Manager in 18.3 Problems [Solved]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 125
Re: Software Manager in 18.3 Problems
Try Synaptic Package Manager, most users will never use Software Manager again after they learn how to use synaptic. Better yet, use the non-crippled ubuntu version of synaptic; just make sure the versions are the same. It almost seems like the Mint version lost some functionality (updates) to enco...
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:16 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] I want to install Gnome 3 w/ Evolution and Fluxbox, is this the way to do it?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 114
Re: I want to install Gnome 3 w/ Evolution and Fluxbox, is this the way to do it?
Hi, I'm trying to install Gnome 3 & fluxbox alongside cinnamon on Mint 18.3, I dunno anything about gnome 3, but I've installed fluxbox on every linux OS I test out (but never with Cinnamon) and it's never broken anything. Multiple desktops really shouldn't interfere with each other, but apparently...
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:12 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: configure conky
- Replies: 1
- Views: 65
Re: configure conky
How can I change the conky theme? I have the text(code) for conky vision but I have no idea what to do with it, or where to put it? Put the code in the file /home/username/.conkyrc then start conky conky & No you can just edit the file and conky will (should and/or used to) restart with the new fil...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:38 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Installing GIMP plugins from .tar.gz file?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 186
Re: Installing GIMP plugins from .tar.gz file?
I have watched video after video, trying to understand how to use tar.gz file. There is no set way to "use" it - it's like a .zip file, and could contain anything. If you're lucky there will be some sort of "readme" file in the .tar.gz file. One thing to note about gimp: unlike user-friendly softwa...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:56 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [SOLVED] Wine - Pegasus Mail
- Replies: 10
- Views: 153
Re: Wine - Pegasus Mail
I have attempted to use a command line switch but don't know how to do it within Wine. Are you staring Pegasus from the terminal, e.g. cd .wine/to/the/program wine pegasus.exe -Z 128 You'll also see relevant error messages. To pass a file path, I think you need to convert it to the windows "C:" wei...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:03 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: posting terminal display to the forum
- Replies: 20
- Views: 256
Re: posting terminal display to the forum
If I copy text from an xfce4-terminal, then close the terminal, then open leafpad, there's nothing to paste into leafpad. If I copy text from an xfce4-terminal, then open leafpad, then close the terminal, there's nothing to paste into leafpad. Same thing with lxterminal. Works fine here! Oh, I'm su...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:58 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: gksu removed from the repo's of Ubuntu 18.04
- Replies: 96
- Views: 10472
Re: gksu removed from the repo's of Ubuntu 18.04
I know this is going to be a really stupid question but ...... I was taught, admonished, etc to always add the following two lines to a bash script file: #!/bin/bash # file ~/bin/<filename> also another comment line with a description or purpose was considered to be good style any reason NOT to do ...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:08 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: posting terminal display to the forum
- Replies: 20
- Views: 256
Re: posting terminal display to the forum
Note: LEAVE THE TERMINAL OPEN! If you close it, the copy buffer is emptied, unlike windows. Can be an issue with some applications but I'll remark that the default terminal windows with all Mint editions are GTK-based and thus do not have this issue. If I copy text from an xfce4-terminal, then clos...