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deeplyconfused wrote:Hi

Everything was working fine until I rebooted recently. Now when I try to access an external drive "local" I get a message:

Unable to mount local
Authentication is required

How do I fix it?

d_c

What filesystem is the drive formatted in?

Your post doesn't give enough information other than you have a .zip file. What's in the zip? zip file = compressed file, I mean what's the command in terminal for installation Please tell us what the compressed(zip) file contains. Just list out the contents. Is there a .bin file? Just double click...

remoulder wrote:So you are not getting the same errors as in your OP now? You could try importing the broken keys as per http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 68#p157023

How come he managed to update with apt-get but the update manager is not working? I am a bit confused.

Type this into a Terminal

If this works then try

markfiend wrote:If you have the Workspace Switcher active on your panel, just right-click it and click "preferences"

I don't think the Workspace Switcher applet has an option to name the individual desktops.

Can you post a screenshot?

As for your first question, try these:

http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/f ... =Main_Page

http://brlcad.org/

Did you update VLC recently?

Bumpity bump.

Will the next Mint release have the window controls on the left of the window bar as it is right now in the alpha releases of Lucid Lynx? If yes, will there be an option to change it to the right?

I still can't believe he's gone. He was the backbone of this forum. I have never seen anyone else who devoted so much time and effort helping people figure out their baby steps with Linux Mint. He will be missed. The community should not not fail in keeping up the standards and friendliness of this ...

What are the chance that you have dust/dirt in your keyboard? It could be a harware problem for all we know. Try vacuuming it.

Mr. Alex wrote:Ctrl+C works even worse...

Describe 'worse'.

Am I the only one with this problem?

Do the problems remain even after a reboot?

The second image doesn't seem to have been rendered in full when using the Img tag while posting. Here's the link.

http://i.imgur.com/APq6N.jpg

When the main panel is positioned to either the right or the left of the screen, the text on the mintMenu button i.e. by default 'Menu', is aligned in the opposite direction when compared to the text in the Clock applet on the panel. Is this a bug? I have posted the screenshots below. http://i.imgur...

Are you not able to enable any visual effects? You can right click on the desktop>Change Desktop Background>Visual Effects. Select normal and see if it works.

Welcome. Have a nice time Mintifying your computers.

Right click on the panel>Add to panel>Window List

That should bring back your minimized windows.