I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
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I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
If you are wanting to change your screen brightness, you can move your cursor over the battery icon in the panel/taskbar and use the scroll wheel to adjust your brightness.
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Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
That may depend on the edition you're using (e.g., Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce or KDE). Don't have it on battery here so can't check
However did you find it though. Cue everybody trying their scrollwheel on random desktop elements
However did you find it though. Cue everybody trying their scrollwheel on random desktop elements
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
Hey, it worked on my 19 Xfce!
I have a laptop that when you use two fingers, it mimics the scroll wheel and it adjusted the brightness.
I have a laptop that when you use two fingers, it mimics the scroll wheel and it adjusted the brightness.
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
It's probably a Xfce thing. Nothing in MATE. Kinda weird placement for that feature, I guess in the widest sense the screen brightness is tied to battery consumption... I should think most if not all laptops have Fn+combos for that though.
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
Is it a easter egg?
I use that (and volume) since the first time I use Mint Cinnamon.
I use that (and volume) since the first time I use Mint Cinnamon.
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
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Halton Arp
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
Now that you say it, for Cinnamon it may have been covered in blog posts from the development team.
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
very cool! didn't know about these (brightness and volume, and as xenopeek anticipated I'm all over testing for other scroll points now!
and I'm happy to announce that both battery icon for brightness and speaker icon for loudness works here! (finally got a plugin mouse with scrollwheel for this laptop, touchpad is not my friend:D)
and I'm happy to announce that both battery icon for brightness and speaker icon for loudness works here! (finally got a plugin mouse with scrollwheel for this laptop, touchpad is not my friend:D)
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~$ inxi -S
System: Host: f023 Kernel: 4.15.0-39-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
My touchpad has a scroll area that also works.
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
Halton Arp
Halton Arp
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
Yes, you're correct. Most do and mine does. On my HP, it's Fn+F6/F7
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
Thank you for that useful hint. I was aware of scrolling on the volume icon, but did not consider the battery. Useful tool. Running Cinnamon here.
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Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
...i also found an 'easter egg' on a fresh 18.3 installation while examining the running processes...
Was wondering why the following doesn't exit & thereby wastes memory after it's task has completed
...aka, the case of the missing ampersand...
PS: ...a bit of digging revealed that the...complex fix was supplied for 19, but not for previous versions though.
Not familiar myself with git / github though to make the appropriate pull requests...
Edit: raised an issue...
Was wondering why the following doesn't exit & thereby wastes memory after it's task has completed
which mintupdate-launcher && cat $(which mintupdate-launcher)
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/usr/bin/mintupdate-launcher
#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
import xapp.os
if ((not xapp.os.is_live_session()) and (not xapp.os.is_guest_session())):
os.system("/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/mintUpdate.py")
PS: ...a bit of digging revealed that the...complex fix was supplied for 19, but not for previous versions though.
Not familiar myself with git / github though to make the appropriate pull requests...
Edit: raised an issue...
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
Thanks, just learnt something, I play around with the volume a lot.I use that (and volume) since
Thinkcentre M720Q - LM21.3 cinnamon, 4 x T430 - LM21.3 cinnamon, Homebrew desktop i5-8400+GTX1080 Cinnamon 19.0
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
Don't have a battery here on the desktop with 19 Xfce, but the scroll wheel works on volume. Thanks for the tip!
LAPTOP: HP - Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon via SSD with Windows 11 on hardware
DESKTOP: Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 SFF- Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon (on hold for now)
DESKTOP: Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 SFF- Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon (on hold for now)
Re: I found a cool 'easter egg' in linux mint 18.3!
works on Linux Mint Debian Edition 3