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- Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:04 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Alternative solution found] Running Mint from a USB stick
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4832
Re: Running Mint from a USB stick
Anyway in my VM install of Mint there is no option to do an install somewhere else Yes, there is. But for that option to work, first you must make settings to the VM when it's turned off - attach the USB stick to the real machine and in settings you have to add the flash drive as a storage device, ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:21 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Steam client prevents screen timeout
- Replies: 1
- Views: 102
Re: Steam client prevents screen timeout
Sounds like a bug in Steam related to your distro (Mint 19, right?). I have no problems whatsoever with putting the computer to sleep and the screen turns itself off when 15 minutes expire. If you do a Google search for "linux steam client prevents sleep", you'll see you're not the only on...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:09 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Alternative solution found] Running Mint from a USB stick
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4832
Re: Running Mint from a USB stick
I was just talking to a person who wouldn't believe that this would work, not to you in particular. Altough in this case you ARE the unbeliever. 

- Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:21 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Alternative solution found] Running Mint from a USB stick
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4832
Re: Running Mint from a USB stick
I'm not really sure how your proposed installation setup would differ in practice or in effect from booting to the Mint "live" environment and running the installer process from that. It would differ because if you run the live env. from the real machine, the installer will detect the sto...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:10 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Alternative solution found] Running Mint from a USB stick
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4832
Re: Running Mint from a USB stick
Setting aside those specific questions just momentarily, the first issue to be aware of would be the Ubuntu installer bug that can arise when installing Mint to a USB stick. Its has potentially destructive results for the existing boot setup on the machine where that process is carried out. Dependi...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:05 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [SOLVED] Firefox upgrade?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2122
Re: Firefox upgrade?
If your source is still showing FF 50, then you must have messed up sources cuz my sources show FF 65 as the latest version and I'm not even using the latest Mint. 

- Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:36 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Are there any limits about how many programs autostart can run?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 149
Are there any limits about how many programs autostart can run?
Are there any limits about how many programs autostart can run in principle? I downloaded an appimage of a program called ScreenCloud and set it up to start with the system but it won't. So I built it from source - still won't run. I followed its developer's advice to edit the '.desktop' file for th...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:02 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] sudo unable to resolve host
- Replies: 4
- Views: 274
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 9:54 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] How to get a Debian repo key?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 676
Re: How to get a Debian repo key?
Your are not trying very hard. Just open the Keyboards GUI make a custom shortcut for shutter -f , assign printscr, make sure shutter is set to autostart mimimised. Job done. There's no need for this exercise. I just found the perfect program for what I wanted: ScreenCloud. With it now I can simply...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:36 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: The number after the point in Mint versions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 272
The number after the point in Mint versions
Does anyone know what the number after the point in Mint versions mean (.1, .2, .3)? Does it mean that it was released in the 3rd quarter of the year or is it something else?
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:31 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Linux Mint 17.x has reached end of life; upgrade now!
- Replies: 92
- Views: 55020
Re: Linux Mint 17.x reaches end of life in April
At least my Mint still has 2 more years to live, so I'm happy. And calm. 

- Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:43 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Window Controls are too small
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5602
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:09 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] sudo unable to resolve host
- Replies: 4
- Views: 274
Re: sudo unable to resolve host
And I take it your hostname (the bit after @ in a command prompt) is "rado-mint18"? Seems likely that rado-mint18 is not named in /etc/hosts. The OOTB behaviour is to have your hostname resolve to 127.0.1.1 on Ubuntu/Mint. I.e., you'd in /etc/hosts have a line 127.0.1.1 rado-mint18 If you...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:55 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] How to get a Debian repo key?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 676
Re: How to get a Debian repo key?
Flameshot is available for installation in your Software Manager in the main menu. There is no need to go to the Debian repository. You already have another Screenshot program installed by default. Nope, it's not. Typing flameshot in the software manager returns nothing: https://i.postimg.cc/Z5gTNK...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:16 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] sudo unable to resolve host
- Replies: 4
- Views: 274
[SOLVED] sudo unable to resolve host
For a few days now every time I use the sudo command I get this message "unable to resolve host rado-mint18". The tasks run just fine despite this message but it's getting annoying and I'd like to remove it somehow. I found an older topic on this forum but it didn't help me at all. I assum...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:01 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] How to get a Debian repo key?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 676
[SOLVED] How to get a Debian repo key?
There's a program I wanna get for Mint 18 but it's available only in the Debian repo. It also has too many dependencies for me to download manually, so I was hoping to get it via the command "sudo apt-get install flameshot". I tried adding the repo to my software sources but it displays a ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:45 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [SOLVED] How to make updates of level 1 and 2 automatic?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 286
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 10:02 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [SOLVED] How to make updates of level 1 and 2 automatic?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 286
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:22 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [SOLVED] How to make updates of level 1 and 2 automatic?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 286
[SOLVED] How to make updates of level 1 and 2 automatic?
I'm going to install Mint on my sister's computer but she's not tech savvy and has no idea what to do when the update manager displays available updates. But I can't find a way to make the system automatically update security packages and level 1 and 2 in general.
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 3:45 am
- Forum: Cinnamon
- Topic: Scaling Panel's Text Size???
- Replies: 8
- Views: 903
Re: Scaling Panel's Text Size???
editing your theme's cinnamon.css What the OP described is just one of the reasons I'm still using 18.3. I tried everything I could find including what you said - editing cinnamon.css - and it didn't work. Restarting Cinnamon didn't make it work either. If they really wanna give us full control of ...