Linux Mint

1. I'm seeing just one massive downside to Plank Reloaded, which is that I'm finding myself apparently having been ridiculously dependent on pressing Super+# all these years in Windows to open apps in the dock... to which Plank Reloaded doesn't react at all; it seems to require a Grouped Window List with apps pinned in the same order. PR also doesn't respond to Cinnamon's Keyboard menu's Global hotkey to show the order of apps, which seems to only affect Grouped Window List. Isn't the whole point of Plank Reloaded to replace a Grouped Window List? Would I have to forgo my beloved Super+# and just type everything via the menu if I wanna stick to PR without a GWL? Help! ~~Also, how do you customize PR more, anyway? I've seen some pretty crazy things from people online (purportedly, unless it was other software at work) and learned to Ctrl+right-click it but there doesn't seem to be a way to change the icons, or are those managed elsewhere?~~ EDIT: Hmm... wow, there are way more docks out there than I realized, duh. Maybe I'll just ditch PR for one of these... but the Super+# shortcut loss remains a bit painful... Does anyone already happen to know if any dock is compatible with this shortcut?

2. Redditors were saying to "Either use 'Blur Cinnamon' or Transparent panels,' but not both" for further customizing via extensions, due to wasted-memory concerns. The problem is that I can't seem to get Blur Cinnamon alone to remove panels' background color and seamlessly blend them into the wallpaper. Blur is pretty tricky for me to figure out.

3. Lastly, are there any Conky configs that show space on external drives, or would anyone know how to modify any to do so?

Any light shed on any of these matters would be much appreciated.

It'd be pretty sweet to have something like what this video shows, but in Cinnamon: https://reddit.com/comments/1tyl4ov

I can't find any such desklet, though! Am I just searching poorly?

So I just discovered the built-in TV/movie watcher, but when I went to the USA's Free-TV section to just try to pull up ABC News, etc., it gave me an endlessly spinning wheel.

When I tried to browse for Pluto movies, it just kept looping this loading screen with the same, few-seconds-long music with the Pluto planet and ring-shaped text rotating around it. It also showed this even when I tried to watch BBC Home in the TV section...

The articles I found online like https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/how-to-watch-live-tv-on-the-linux-desktop-with-hypnotix/ and https://itsfoss.com/hypnotix-iptv-app/ just don't seem to address the issues I'm having, as if they don't exist at all. Does this app just no longer work or something?

I feel like trying to persuade people to leave Windows purely from a privacy angle is being too specific or extreme for those who really don't care/gave up. I think a great, alternative way to win people over would be to simply point out how much more efficient it is and energy-saving for their own electric bills.

Just don't warn them about how much energy they may end up ironically expending as a result of tinkering with it and fixing issues and finding cool stuff like Burn My Windows, haha... 🤫

I just received a massive (multi-paragraph, spanning the entire height of the screen) notification that confused me until I realized that it was the end of a huge message from a friend.

I'm kinda taken aback by the fact that Mint devs didn't set notifications to display the first words, instead of the last words, of gigantic notifications. Is there a way to configure them to present themselves accordingly?

The issue seems to be Keysharp interfering!

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I have this set up as a startup script, but it only sometimes triggers, despite setting a 20-second delay:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 2
xmodmap -e "clear lock"
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Return"

I have the startup command set to bash "path/Remap_Caps_Lock_to_Enter.sh". What's going on? It works when I press the triangle button when it doesn't work on boot.

For example, I'd love to be able to map ~~Win~~ Super+R to a click of the "Recent documents" tray icon (it looks like an analog clock), if not at least directly to the "Recent" sidebar section of Nemo. How could I do this, if it's even possible? Otherwise, I may have to try to emulate it through Keysharp...

Nemo: I can't move to search results without the mouse. This is unacceptable in 2026... But at least it has Meld as an awesome file-compare plugin in the Software Manager. However, it has no audio statistics and can't view audio metadata in file properties.

Thunar: I can select search results by keyboard, but I can't cut and paste files from an external drive to the internal drive; for some reason "Paste" is grayed out. It has no "open as root" folder feature, but I can at least cut regardless in Nemo without root access.

Yazi: I can't even install it because sudo apt install snapd, which seems to be a prerequisite to getting it on here, is yielding:

Package snapd is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'snapd' has no installation candidate

I had bad experiences with Double Commander and Dolphin on Windows; it was just harder to do stuff and the context menus felt lacking. Are they still worth trying?

... and I'm having a blast! What simple yet incredibly well-designed extensions! I wish someone told me about these earlier, haha. Cinnamon-Screenshot is also nicer than the default; I mapped that to PrtScn. And Fancy Tiles of course everyone should always have on any 24+" monitor.

I was just looking up Warpinator's compatibility with Windows since it's so nice on Linux, but https://warpinator.net/ randomly capitalizes the "P" at the bottom, which is just wild and out of nowhere; I fear that it may be an impostor site. What's the best way to tell?

Should we update right away or wait? The new version I'm seeing in Mint's Update Manager says it's 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.3… kinda weird, haha.

On Mint Cinnamon, alt+clicking apparently drags the current window. Meh; why, given tiling (whether manually with Super+Arrow, automatically with cortile, etc.)?

On Windows, alt+clicking directly on links lets you nullify the link-following so you can highlight the link text to then copy. This is a far more useful feature to me. Is there any way to change Cinnamon to do this?

Solution: Just disable the feature in the "Windows" settings' Behavior tab!

I absolutely could not figure this out anywhere online and many other people who tried to help were unable to solve the problem, so I reluctantly ended up dialoguing for perhaps 2-4 hours with ChatGPT, which actually managed to solve it. I'm not proud of doing so, but I'm not a programmer, either, and I really don't think the solution exists anywhere online after having searched and searched, which is why I'm documenting it here for anyone's future discovery.

Normally, when you install Mint on an iMac A2116, the local sound is silent, even though its sounds can be heard through remote desktop software. This is the way:

First-time setup:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential git linux-headers-$(uname -r)
cd ~
wget https://github.com/davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
unzip master.zip

Then the following steps should be done right after the commands above, as well as after every kernel update (which continually causes it to go silent again):

cd snd_hda_macbookpro-master
sudo ./install.cirrus.driver.sh

Then reboot and it'll work.

Trying to automate these bottom two lines into DKMS with:

cd ~/snd_hda_macbookpro-master
sudo ./install.cirrus.driver.sh --install

... seems to cause Mint to think its kernel management has gone corrupt, so I may try to make it a startup command via bash, though I welcome any ideas and thoughts about this process, which has worked so far on 22.2 and 22.3 'Zena.'

Edit: Wow, I didn't need any of these; Meld via Nemo Compare does the trick in conjunction with the built-in text editor, Xed! Glad I came across this delightful plugin!

~~Kate~~. ~~Zed~~. ~~Basically anything with Git's diff doesn't seem to allow live edits to either file directly in the comparison itself; I have to open one of the files in another text editor and search for the discrepant lines manually. Is there anything that can rival VSCodium out there (which, yes, has no telemetry but still feels too resource-heavy relative to the Syncthing sync-conflicts for which I intermittently use it to manually resolve)?~~

~~The search has gotten so bad that it feels like a failure to have to download Notepad++ on Windows to try to run it through Bottles, in which I then had a graphical scaling error (had to restart with 200% DPI, but the mouse cursor is still tiny) and I couldn't open my own Linux user directory in its file browser.~~

~~I'm pulling my hair out; I had no idea that this would be such a ridiculously difficult search. I'm trying NeoVim next, with possibly LazyVim, but I fear the same outcome...~~

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/64065568

I'm trying to install Davinci Resolve on Mint.

My friend is not Linux techsavvy. He has tried for about a week to get it working on Linux Mint, with no success. Instead, broke his system a couple times trying to get it working.

Is there an easier way to get it running? Would running it using Wine, or is there some kind of Flatpak or AppImage type thing to make it easier?

It's weird because I've installed Mint on other PCs and Macs and have never seen this problem before (admittedly probably slightly older versions of Mint), which keeps recurring on my machine.

I used the Keyboard's "Custom Shortcuts" area. What am I missing? I see nothing in there to add permissions... I'm running Linux Mint 22.3 'Zena', if that matters.