1- Sometimes the file manager just won't open and I get the error "Could not register nemo as a remote: Timeout was reached" when running it through the command line

2- Steam doesn't work most of the time, games won't launch, downloads won't pause and I can't exit out of steam, however, I can still navigate around the app.

Has anyone else ran into these issues and how are they solved?

Here is how you can add a simple action to open a folder in VSCodium within Nemo file manager.

1. Create a new file in ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/ and name the file vscodium.nemo_action
2. Open the file in a text editor
3. Copy the code below into the file

[Nemo Action]
Name=Open in VSCodium
Comment=Open VSCodium in the selected folder
Exec=codium "%F"
Icon-Name=vscodium
Selection=Any
Extensions=dir;

4. Save the changes made to the file
5. Now when you right click inside a folder in Nemo, it will show an option "Open in VSCodium" and when you click this option, it will launch VSCodium using the currently directory as the workspace.

This can be modified to work with Visual Studio Code (Which is closed source unlike VSCodium) by editing codium "%F" to code "%F"

What are the packages that comes default with Linux Mint Cinnamon that I can remove without any problems.

Linux Mint comes with lots of packages installed by default to give full experience to new users. But not everyone needs everything. In my case for example, I don't need celluloid, pix, hexchat, hypnotix, rhythmbox, LibreOffice, etc,... Those applications has their own audience and Linux Mint including them is a good thing but I personally don't want them.

Mini Rant or QA maybe?

I searched the internet a bit for the answer, on various forums, and subreddits. And All the people who asked this question got obliterated as far as I've seen. The common answers are:

if you remove the applications that came installed with Mint by default, it will cause Dependency issues.

If I remove an application and the dependencies shold be removed UNLESS some other application need those dependency, right? If that's the case, why removing packages can cause dependency issues?

Why would you want to remove essential applications like LibreOffice, pix etc. ? (this question is asked in the sense of "what sane person would want to remove those?")

Cause why not? Maybe I like GwenView more than Pix, maybe I don't need office applications at all. Why this even matter?

If you want don't want Mint's default applications, then what's the point of using Mint? Just use something like Ubuntu server or something. People need to realize that lot of people (at least me) using Mint for it's System management (updates, apt source list, etc..) via GUI ability. Just because I want to manage my system with ease, that doesn't mean I need everyt applications it offers me.

I honestly feel bad for the person who asked the question in the first place. They didn't got the answers till the very end. All they got is Criticism and it's not constructive one.

Why this kind of behaviour even exist?

P.S.: I'm using Mint inside VM for testing purposes. I don't want my VM to take a lot of space. That's why I don't need lot of applications.

Which folders and files do I need to exclude from TimeShift?

Also is there a way to also exclude programs installed as .deb ?

I doing this to reduce Backup size as I have limited storage.

100GB - Windows 11
400GB - Storage
400GB - Mint
100GB - TimeShift

Yeah super specific and weirdly worded question, I know. I use the download folder a lot, so much so that I would prefer the file manager to show that folder directly instead of showing me the user folder, and then navigating to the downloads folder?

Side question, is it safe to delete folders like the documents folder and the music folder without causing issues in the future?

Can I delete previous backups, without affecting following backups, Since TimeShift (RSync) make increamental backups.

i'm picasso.

Running Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Cinnamon iso. Linux kernel 6.5.0-41. Not sure what happened here or what the cause was, occasionally happens when using Firefox. It'll bug out like this for a few seconds, then when I move my curser over it everything goes back to normal.

I've also experienced an issue where, when opening a tab or doing something in Firefox (usually Google docs), the entire system will randomly do a partial reboot? best way I can explain it is it'll go black, flash (what I assume is) the BIOS terminal screen, then load in my lock screen; all my open softwares will have closed out and I'd have to open it again. Idk if the system is rebooting fully when this happens or not but it sure as hell feels like it.

Are these related? are they Firefox issues or is something fucky with my drivers?

I've verified everything is up to date like 6 times just in case.

Update: Have not personally resolved either issue. unsure if they are unrelated. I can't seem to replicate the issue, unsure if they will be resolved by a random update or not, though the issues do seem to be fairly recent and known about; see comments for what I found on the Internet.

Edit: Possibly resolved. Noticed there were a bunch of updates that mint wanted to install, but which required a reboot. Live sessions reset everything on reboot, so I obliterated windows and did a full install, then updated. Mic issues seem to be resolved now, dunno what update it was that fixed it. I only say possibly resolved because I haven't finished fully testing it due to time/location constraints but the tests I did do seem to work fine.

First a quick thanks to everyone who helped me out before; ended up using Cinnamon Edge and the wifi and bluetooth both work.

However, I am having issues with audio inputs. For whatever reason, it seems to detect audio outputs as the audio input (at least from Firefox). e.g. when I have music playing from a youtube tab and try using my mic, it detects the music from the yt tab as the input, and doesn't detect any input from my mic itself. This occurs regardless of whether I have bluetooth headphones connected or not. How can I fix this?

Edit: Still having issues with it. Installed pavucontrol (after a lot of trouble), the only input is from monitors but I don't see anything I can do with it.

2nd Edit: Messed with the configurations in pavucontrol. Shows two, uh, things I guess: HD-Audio Generic and Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller.

HD-Audio Generic has three profiles: the first is Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (unplugged) (unavailable). The other two are the same thing, except one has Digital Stereo 7.1 and the other has 5.1. None of these seem to do anything.

Family 17h (Models 10h-1f) HD Audio Controller has 3 as well: Analog Stereo Output, Analog Stereo Duplex, and Analog Stereo Input (unplugged) (unavailable).

I don't think I can figure this out. I have the same issue even when connecting my bluetooth headset, where the input mic registers the output audio as the input for some reason. The "monitor" of Family 17h (I don't really know what it means by monitor) picks up the output as input, and the same goes for when my headset is connected.

Just installed it via package manager and I'm trying to get my brain around it. Anyone out there have any experience or tips for running WireShark on Linux Mint? Thanks so much!

Linux noob using mint for the first time, decided to boot from a flash drive before fully installing on my PC, just to try it out first. I'm having issues getting Wi-Fi to work during the live session though; clicking the Wi-Fi icon only brings up Network Settings and Network connections. Network connections lets me try to set it up manually, but I can't figure out how to get it to connect after putting in all the info I can find for my Wi-Fi. Is this normal? Did I mess up the installation somehow, or is a drivers problem?

Hardware: HP laptop, AMD Ryzen 5 7520U w/ Radeon Graphics (Model # 15-fc0025dx). OS: Linux kernel 5.15.0-91 generic, Linux Mint version 21.3, Cinnamon version 6.0.4. Booted off a flash drive (live session).

edit: I also get the following screen when I try to shut my laptop down from the Mint boot:

Hi all! I was wondering if there was anyone who installed Linux Mint on their Non-Retina Intel Silicon Mac (the Mac's up to/around 2012). I have a 2012 15 Inch Macbook Pro with an i7-3615QM. Between possible driver issues, and the fact that it's a Mac with a 3rd Generation CPU, I'm not sure if I can get away with using it or if I should just get some cheap Lenovo Laptop. Just looking for some feedback, thank you in advance!

I have this laptop in front of me that is still on 20.1 and I am trying to get it upgraded to latest.

This is such a pain, but I show you how I worked around it.

The GUI stuff all doesnt work. The update manager always warns about errors with mirrors, even though apt works normally. Clicking on "change mirrors" launched a password prompt but it didnt fix anything. The "package repositories" app didnt launch at all, also not from the settings.

The mintupgrade tool is not available in these repos.

Updates

Problems:

• mintupgrade not even in the repos
• updates are separated into "normal" and "full" updates. Really confusing, coming from Fedora

# clean up the system to make stuff quicker
sudo apt uninstall --purge#as many packages as I didnt need
sudo apt autoremove --purge

# normal updates
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y


# system upgrade to latest. Dont get the logic and the difference behind these commands
sudo apt full-upgrade -y
sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

# you should at least reboot if there was a kernel upgrade
systemctl reboot

This got me to 20.3 at least.

Went into /etc/apt/sources.list and saw that this is empty. But in sources.list.d was a single file official-package-repositories.list that had all the sources. If you use a single file, why not just use sources.list??

Distro version upgrades

Problems:

• you need to know the next underlying Ubuntu version
• you need to know the codenames of target mint AND ubuntu version
• you need to change a file in an unexpected location

I did it manually: search on the internet for the codenames of both latest Mint (virginia) and the underlying Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (jammy).

So I went in there and just replaced the names with the new correct ones. Forgot the old names, was it disco and una? The automated command would be:

# update Ubuntu names
sudo sed -i 's/disco/jammy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

# update LM versions
sudo sed -i 's/una/virginia/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

Then opened a terminal and repeated the above.

This took forever, and when I came back today the mint session had crashed and the error window didnt respond.

I exited to TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F4) and repeated the above. Package casper had conflicts. Never heard of it so tried sudo apt remove casper and it didnt try to uninstall my whole desktop (cough should have done that LTT) so I just removed it. Lol?

Repeated the steps, finished with a reboot and it worked. I am now on 21.3

Post version upgrade

Problems:

• mints updater is kinda iffy
• on stable distros, automatic updates should be no problem
• unattended-upgrades needs to be installed and set up in a very traditional way

First thing I did was

sudo apt install mintupgrade nala fish unattended-upgrades -y
sudo nala upgrade

Nala is poorly pretty bloated and uses tons of python stuff, but it is way more legible and user-friendly than apt, automating tons of stuff. It does not work in non-scrolling TTYs!

Fish is a way friendlier shell but dont set it as your default! It is not POSIX compliant and will give random breakages.

The unattended upgrades are very useful. To configure them, edit this file:

sudoedit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades

And uncomment as many as you want.

Luckily this is not my main machine, I can recommend Fedora Atomic Desktops to anyone. I have no idea how this is supposed to be user friendly 😅

Cheers!

I'm testing, after many recommendations, a mint installation on my Lenovo yoga 720.

I found the settings for touchpad gestures but my question is: how do I bind a keyboard shortcut to a gesture?

I tried a workaround and installed touché, since my understanding was that mint uses touchegg. But that worked only until the first reboot and now seems broken. If possibleI'd prefer to just use whatever is implemented anyway.

So, is there a way to bind a keyboard shortcut to a touchpad gesture?

I recently bought a Lenovo L440 Thinkpad. Have installed Linux Mint on it and Keyboard backlit and touch pointer arent working. Rest is all fine. Can anyone help?

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/11305365

Anyone have a list of changes that they've made to increase battery life? I've got about three hours (with 80% limit in BIOS, which I might get rid of), so I'm sure there's a lot that can be changed.

I just hibernated my laptop and then brought it back up, and it went straight into LMDE without asking me for a password on a lock screen. That seems.. like weird behavior. Is there something I can set to fix that?

Anyone been able to set up a fingerprint reader in LMDE 6 with Cinnamon? I can use fprintd-enroll and fprintd-verify successfully, but it doesn't show up in pam-auth-update so I don't know how to add it to the login screen or the terminal.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13934384

Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu

Hey all,

I’ve currently got Mint running on my old Mid-2012 15” MBP, mainly as a hobby project / Linux learning experience. I have a newer Mac as my main computer.

I’ve already had a ton of failed attempts installing other distros which didn’t work out, I’m assuming because of the now quite outdated hybrid Intel/Nvidia GPU.

I’m currently running the Nvidia driver, but have been reading things about the 390 driver not working on newer kernels. Moving forwards am I going to be better protected from updates breaking things if I switch to using the Nouveau driver instead?

Thanks!