Linux Mint

Good morning, I am trying to use WireGuard. I can connect to the VPN, but I cannot access any websites. The strange thing is that if I open a website in my browser (Firefox) and then launch the VPN, I can browse the previously opened websites, unless I open links external to that site. Do you have any advice for me? Thank you and have a nice day.

And then I realized I didn't need windows anymore. What software would you recommend to convert the partitions left on the SSD to Linux mint compatible ones ?

I can already use them but only as storage.

Can I expand the 70 Go I had reserved for mint without having to go through a full reinstall?

What can I use and how ?

Please, thx

I recently learned about a new bill being proposed in Ireland called the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill where Ireland may make it legal to “empower law enforcement to intercept of all forms of communications...whether encrypted or not” including the legal use of spyware.

According to DistroWatch, Linux Mint’s origin is Ireland so I’m wondering if there is going to be any implication should this bill pass.

hello. This feels like a stupid question and I'm sorry that I have to ask it but searching has been fruitless.

I've put a used amd 5700xt in my tower. The machine boots and sees the card and lists it in system settings. When I unplug the hdmi from the integrated graphics and plug it into the card it nothing displays on the monitor. Its as if the card is turned off.

If I boot the machine with hdmi in the graphics card from power up the screen stays black. Removing the cable and plugging into the integrated port brings up the display on the monitor as expected

Before I rip it out and troubleshoot further, I wanted to ask if there was a setting some where that I need to change to tell the machine to start using the new card?

TYVM

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42166990

Just a neat resource I found about LM and felt my fellow lemms might enjoy. Could be helpful if you know someone who is thinking of switching and looking for resources.

Not my channel.

Aloha, I'm being dumb. I tried to move away from using PIA- private Internet access do to some suggestions. I bit the bullet and finally switched VPNs after ~5 years or so.

I know others may say it's dumb but I was going to try Proton VPN. On my phone, no issues. If I run the installers in Mint though, I can't seem to get it to install. Tried the Debian install, tried the Ubuntu install, but no luck. Specifically the command sudo apt install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop Will always return an unable to locate package, even while running from the same directory I run the wget commands and such from.

Is there something that you have seen that works well with this? I need to set that machine back up for a split tunnel for a couple specific apps and not others.

I'm pretty much set on running my PC on Linux Mint, but before I make the full plunge I want to test it out by launching it from a USB drive. I was wondering how much discs I would need on the said USB stick so that I can boot into LM environment and test it out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58911678

The law firm that I work for is has finally decided that we should embrace Linux.

When of the key programs that we use a PDF Editor that has e-sign capabilities. Most people use Adobe and I use Foxit.

The problem with Foxit is that it doesn't run natively on Linux. I have to use WINE which is already going to be a problem cause we need a program that works out of the box. Having a program work out of the box cuts down on IT support and makes it easier for everyone to use.

The features needed:

1. Bookmark
2. Move/delete/insert pages
3. Redact
4. Bates numbering
5. E-sign
6. Change orientation of the page
7. Resize pages
8. Add notes
9. Highlight
10. Charges in Canadian dollars
11. Offline program
12. User friendly

Bonus points: It's a non-American company

The ones that I have looked at:

1. PDF Filler (not a fan of it being almost 100% cloud based)
2. Master PDF Editor
3. PDF Studio

Edit: Distro would most likely be Mint or Zorin.

I am on Linux Mint on a rather old refurbished Lenovo T460. The enter key is broken, so I want to have the key remapped to my insert key.

Until now I have been using xmodmap, however since a recent system update it no longer works.

Currently this is my startup script: xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

And this is the contents of the ~/.Xmodmap file:

$ cat .Xmodmap 
keycode 118 = Return

! Disable broken Enter key
keycode 36 = NoSymbol

Thanks in advantage for the help :)

Edit: I forgot to mention that copying and pasting the command I have in Startup Applications into the terminal and then pressing CTRL+M works, but it is a pain to have to do that every time I boot my machine.

I would like to see the Linux Mint project move in three directions:

1. Drop Xfce and MATE and focus on Cinnamon.
2. Continue with LMDE and Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, but only with Cinnamon.
3. Create an immutable version.

I'm a novice so go gently it's kinda my first time. I hope I'm in the right place.

I recently installed Mint on an old laptop to use as a browser for my TV. Everything has gone great so far except when I turn off the TV the laptop goes to sleep and won't wake. The TV is set to primary display.

I've turned off all of the power saving options and set Screen off/Suspend/lid coose to never or nothing. Turned off the screen saver and light. I checked the BIOS (it's actually BIOS and really that old) and no power settings that would effect sleep or wake.

But it still goes to sleep when I turn off the TV. This would be tolerable if it would actually wake from sleep. So the only way to get it to come on is to pull the battery out and force a restart.

Problem #1 - Goes to sleep when TV is off

Problem #2 - Won't wake unless I pull the battery

I followed the written tutorial in the settings but I still don't know if there's Wapuro Romaji and often when I try to test the layout it snaps back to English or doesn't seem to write any different from the english keyboard and if everything does work it seems to delegate individual Kana to keys & I'm not very comfortable with that way of typing.

hello @linuxmint@mamot.fr @linuxmint@lemmy.ml @linuxmint@mastodon.social

tl;dr I have got a problem with the tree-sitter-cli package version stuck at 0.20.8-5.

I installed the nvim-treesitter plugin in Neovim, and when I run :checkhealth, I get the following message:

nvim-treesitter:
Requirements ~
- ✅ OK Neovim was compiled with tree-sitter runtime ABI version 15 (required >=13).
- ❌ ERROR tree-sitter-cli v0.25.0 is required
- ..

#linuxmint #tree-sitter-cli #neovim #tree-sitter

1/X

Hi all, about to install latest LMDE with Cinnamon. I like my taskbar / dock on the left, to make better use of real estate.

Mint doesn't have that option to move it to the left.

Can I ask if anyone has done this, in a good, usable way?

Thanks for your help.

🚩UPDATE: If you can't stand that avatar icon in the menu, just right click the Mint logo and select configure. 👍

It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22, 22.1 and 22.2 to version 22.3.

If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience.

1. Create a system snapshot

You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade.

If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your operating system to its previous state.

Launch Timeshift from the application menu, follow the instructions on the screen to configure it and create a system snapshot.

2. Prepare for the upgrade

If you installed Cinnamon spices (applets, desklets, extensions, themes), upgrade them from the System Settings.

3. Upgrade the operating system

Upgrading to Linux Mint 22.3 is fast and easy.

In the Update Manager, click on the Refresh button to check for any new version of mintupdate or mint-upgrade-info. If there are updates for these packages, apply them.

Launch the System Upgrade by clicking on “Edit->Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.3 Zena”.

And if so how can we enable it as the "search files and folders" options is no longer available?

I know we can go back to the old menu with this classic menu applet but i wanted to avoid that.

I started a dual-boot install at the end of the day, and now I'm in trouble and too tired to think right. After a basic default install,it only boots to mint now. No dual boot. I'm going to sleep now, but any pointers you can offer will give me a jump on my day tomorrow. Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41331598

I am trying to use a Thermaltake Blacx Duet (ST0015) HDD Docking Station with my Linux computers (Linux Mint and Ubuntu, all latest).

I have a SATA disk plugged in one of the bays and when I connect it to a USB port with its cable (everything is brand new) nothing happens.

lsusb returns:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 174c:2074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 High-Speed hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:082d Logitech, Inc. HD Pro Webcam C920 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:0ac4 Logitech, Inc. G535 Wireless Gaming Headset Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c53a Logitech, Inc. PowerPlay Wireless Charging System Bus 001 Device 006: ID 046d:c547 Logitech, Inc. USB Receiver Bus 001 Device 007: ID 26ce:01a2 ASRock LED Controller Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 174c:3074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 SuperSpeed hub

The only message in dmesgrelated to usb is:

[ 474.891877] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

which I understand means that the usb-storage module is loaded.

Same behavior in Ubuntu.

Does this mean that the hardware is just incompatible or is there anything more I can try?

I installed Mint on a friend’s computer and he asked if there was something similar to Quickbooks. I have never thought about it so I don’t know what to recommend.

I'm on LMDE 7 Gigi and use standard Firefox that comes with Mint. Recently I installed Librewolf via Flatpak and wondered why all the touchpad gestures like 2-finger-swipe for back/forward and pinch-to-zoom worked out of the box in Librewolf. When I looked that up it seemed that this only works with Wayland but not on X11. I guess this comes down to the installation via Flatpak?

Is there a way to get these gestures on Firefox under Mint? Or do I have to wait for Wayland support? I'd just use Librewolf with the gestures working but unfortunately I couldn't get my KeePassXC data bank synced. This might be because of Flatpak, I tried to manually set the sync folder but KeePass couldn't find a connection there.

Thanks!

I have used linux mint for a while but I decided to try manjaro on my pc for about 6 months, when I swapped back I got it on and stable for just long enough to move some of my files over and install csgo but when I tried to launch it the computer froze and after like 5-10 minutes I shut it down then it threw this error code that I had not seen before even when running the same system on the same os

It was fully up to date because I fixed that before I installed anything

As of now it puts up that code looks to me like(ucsi_ccg 0-0008: Failed to get FW build) to me but the only place I can find reference to that is a nixos forum post from 2 years ago saying it is a driver used in laptops for usb-c

But it throws that code then black screens and goes unresponsive either when I try and boot to the main HDD or when I try and boot to an external USB stick so I can't gain any access to the software to disable the package

I tried checking my BIOS settings and pulling the bios battery already and neither made any change

I figured i'd ask before i manually add

# Braille
<Multi_key> <b> <0>					: "⠀"	# Braille pattern blank
<Multi_key> <b> <1>					: "⠁"	# Braille pattern 1
<Multi_key>	<b> <2>					: "⠂"	# Braille pattern 2
<Multi_key>	<b> <1> <2>				: "⠃"	# Braille pattern 12
<Multi_key>	<b> <3>					: "⠄"	# Braille pattern 3
<Multi_key>	<b> <1> <3>				: "⠅"	# Braille pattern 13
<Multi_key>	<b> <2> <3>				: "⠆"	# Braille pattern 23
<Multi_key>	<b> <1> <2> <3>		: "⠇"	# Braille pattern 123
...

to ~/.XCompose, has anyone already done this for all 256 characters in the Unicode block? And if so, could i get a copy of that?

Or can anyone think of a good way to automate this? I tried generating this line for 1-255 in LibreOffice Calc then removing the lines containing 0 and 9, before i realized i hadn't covered everything and i had a bunch of effectively duplicate lines because i need 12 and 21 to count the same.

I know it's possible because i did it a couple weeks ago, then something broke and i had to reinstall Mint. Unfortunately i didn't document what i did and i'm struggling to find anything about it online, just one thread on the Mint forums that turned into an argument with no solution, and another that had a solution ten years ago for Cinnamon.

When i open the menu with the super (or Windows) key and type something that's not the name of a program in the menu, it offers to search DuckDuckGo, search Wikipedia, search a dictionary, and search for files that match what i typed. I'd like to remove the DDG and WP search options since i never use them.

I'm using Mint MATE 22.2, though i don't know how much that matters.

Youtuber @SomeOrdinaryGamers have a thing for Linux Mint. To be honest that Driver Manager looks sexy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNYvdlgV5fw

-Meme made with Krita-

Any experienced user will say no shit Sherlock. I still find it useful.

More technical info here - https://wiki.robotz.com/index.php?title=Adjust_the_Display_With_xgamma_and_xrandr

xrandr <monitor> --gamma 1:1:1

xrandr --output eDP-1 --gamma 1:1:1

Standard RGB = 1 : 1 : 1

Example for lower gamma = .9 : .9 : .9

xrandr --output eDP-1 --gamma .9:.9:.9

💁‍♂️ Nothing fancy. I just like darker black on my cheap monitor.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1003101/how-to-use-xrandr-gamma-for-gnome-night-light-like-usage#1061304

To keep the chance after the reboot, just go to Startup Applications > + > personalized command and add the command there.