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I don't remember how I made it work, but I got all the nightlies smoothly now.

Hi xenopeek,

I totally missed the menu entry "My Places".

Thanks for the hint.

Hello I am quite embarrassed with the community website (https://community.linuxmint.com) I tried to submit an idea and could not find a link/button. I wanted to insert information about my hardware. I would like to add my model and cannot find a way to do it. Are these pages in read-only mode for n...

Hello I am using Mint 18.3, and saw that openscad from Ubuntu is quite old. One solution is to use their downloads page where they provide a Ubuntu 16.04 deb line: deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/xUbuntu_16.04/ ./ When I add it to the list, and update the cache, it only sh...

Perfect !

I used this to also have the date.

Thanks !

Hello

In the Calendar applet, which displays the date, we can use a custom format.
As my dashboard is vertical, I would like to knowif there is a special symbol to insert a line feed.

Default date vertically is HH\nMM. I would like to have HH\nMM\nday/month
But it doesn't seems to work.

Regards

huho

I did not notice the thread date, since I just discovered Sparky. Sorry for bringing one more zombie around.

I will be using it as my default go-to distro.. (with Mint 17 Cinnamon, and Manjaro). A very satisfying trio of Linux distros.. based on (Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch). :D Hello GeneC, I am interested in knowing what would lead you to choose Sparky over Mint (or the opposite). The description you gave ...

Viewing viewtopic.php?f=91&t=55382, I did the opposite and activate PolicyKit.

To check on the error, you should know that "Software Manager" is called mintInstaller; Launching it in a terminal allows you to have the "real" error to post in forums.

Things worked again !

I just add, if this could be related: In User & Groups, I cannot add myself to other groups and I cannot change my account type.

Also:

Hello all, I freshly installed LM12 LXDE in a VirtualBox (HD 8Go, RAM 1.7Go + 2 cores of the i5 host). It worked nice. I installed Opera and gcc via Software Manager with no issue. I also installed git via sudo apt-get with no issue neither. I then added an entry to fstab to automount a Virtualbox s...