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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, ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Valsodar wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:09 am

hostname is "rado-mint18" but in hosts file 127.0.1.1 was "mint18 mint18", so I changed it to "rado-mint18"

It seems that this solved the problem, so thanks to everyone who responded in the topic.

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...

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?

At least my Mint still has 2 more years to live, so I'm happy. And calm.

The size of these buttons depends on the font size. Look how big are mine, altough I did it not for the buttons size but because I wanted large titles in the title bar:

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

smurphos wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 09, 2019 11:23 am

I'm guessing you don't want them from your previous postings

You guessed it right - for my system. Hers will include kernel updates.
And thanks for the detailed instructions!

smurphos wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:35 am

Which Mint version are you going for?

18.3 - like my system.

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.

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 ...