Linux Mint is a Debian-based open-source Linux distribution.
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How can I open the Start menu in Linux Mint with the Windows key
I just installed Linux Mint 11 on my laptop and I am very used with the Windows interface. I could not find a way to set the Windows key to open the Start menu, like in Windows?
I did a few searches ...
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“AMD Unsupported Hardware” watermark in Linux Mint
I just setup my new computer that has onboard video and Installed Linux Mint. I installed the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" from Hardware Drivers and now I have a watermark on the bottom ...
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Linux mint 10 seems to corrupt ntfs filesystem
I have linux mint 10 and windows 7 installed on the same hd. First partition is linux, then swap, then the windows system partition and finally an NTFS partition for commonly used
data i would like ...
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How do you install linux alongside Windows 8 without corrupting Windows 8 boot configuration?
In order to install Linux Mint 14 alongside Windows 8 I disabled UEFI and booted to a flash drive with the Linux image. I installed linux, restarted the computer, and the grub boot loader appeared. ...
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How to remove distro-specific “branding” from Firefox in Linux Mint
I just switched from Ubuntu to Mint and I'd like to remove the mint branded Google custom search "feature" which does some strange things to the styling of the results page.
I went into synaptic and ...
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How do I change linux mint's default search in Chromium to normal?
I've used Linux Mint for over 6 months, and have been loving it until I installed Mint 11 today. Everything was great until I loaded up chromium and saw that it only allows you to search through ...
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How to enable 32-bit binary compatibility on Linux Mint 11 x64
I've recently installed x64 Linux Mint 11, basically Ubuntu Natty. Since the install I've found that 32-bit applications which used to run on my Ubuntu system are rejected by my Mint 11 system. When I ...
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Linux Mint is rebooting while screen is locked, how do I go about debugging/fixing it?
It's difficult to search for this issue as there are so many questions about rebooting, screen locking, etc. but I've had a look and couldn't find anything, so here goes.
I'm running Mint 14 (MATE) ...
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Any dangers of sharing /home partition between two distros?
I have a laptop with a 250GB HDD. I have an existing installation of Kubuntu across three partitions (A 20GB one for /, 2GB for swap, and something like 97GB for /home). If I add another partition, ...
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move the gnome-panel to second monitor (Linux Mint 11/12, Gnome 2 & 3)
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I'm new to Linux Mint but I do use Linux since 2003 (mostly debian and ubuntu). Up to now it was always possible to easily move a panel in Gnome to where ever I wanted it by pressing ...
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Where to look when the system crashes or something else horrible goes down?
My Linux Mint workstation is acting funky, it appears to be logging me out randomly, though I'm guessing what's really happening is that the X desktop is crashing. Maybe.
How do I troubleshoot this? ...
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Cannot exit X server, restart, shutdown or drop to tty when VGA monitor active
I have a strange problem. If I connect an external VGA monitor to my laptop, exiting the X environment in any way crashes the computer.
For example, say I am working with my two monitors (the ...
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Wi-Fi connection download speed is cut in half in Linux Mint
I have a pretty decent DSL connection that usually gave me about 105KB/second download speed over wifi. The "official" download speed was 1.5 megabits so I should have been getting a bit more, but ...
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Linux Mint 14 seems to Randomly Change Workspaces on Laptop
I am running Linux Mint 14 (Cinnamon) in a VirtualBox VM on Windows 8 host using an HP Envy 17" laptop. It seems like it randomly decides to show the workspace selection screen while I'm doing ...
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How to remap CAPSLOCK to ESC in Linux Mint 12
I would like to remap the CAPSLOCK key to ESC as this is easier to use in Vim. I can make it in Ubuntu 11.04 as there's an option for this in Keyborad configuration. But recently I switched to use ...
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How to change the wallpaper in linux mint 11 log in screen
I am having a bit of a issue finding the way of how to change the wallpaper for Linux Mint 11 log in screen.
Do you guys know how to do this?
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Remove Firefox Custom Search
I am using Linux Mint 10. I would like to how to remove Google custom search results page in Firefox. I would like to have standard Google search results page instead of custom search.
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How can I fix the default search engine in Chromium on Linux Mint 11?
Lame. Linux Mint comes with some pretty nasty defaults as far as setting the default search engine go. How can I set it to Google proper? Can someone copy and paste the URL to use which is working for ...
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How do I solve periodic mouse lag on Linux Mint (MATE)?
I have a laptop with the latest Linux Mint installed (the MATE version, not the Cinnamon one). 80-90% of the time everything works great, but periodically the mouse will start "lagging" heavily (it ...
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How do I disable the keyboard shortcut for menu in Linux Mint 13?
I use gnome-do a lot and usually I summon it using [Super] + [Space]. It works just fine on my desktop PC (Linux Mint 11) but on my new ThinkPad T420 (Linux Mint 13) it didn't work that well. I had to ...
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Linux Mint UI Freezes Daily, How Do I Fix This?
I'm sort-of new to Linux, and new to Linux Mint 11.
About once a day the UI will completely freeze - except the mouse will move. It won't respond to any clicks or any keyboard ctrl+alt+delete, so I ...
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How can I install tor in the UAE?
I'm using Linux Mint 10 Julia and currently in the UAE.
I'm having trouble accessing a lot of websites so I want to install tor.
However the the domain is block and so the repo address of tor itself ...
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How do I install GRUB to a partiton and not MBR?
I am trying to dual boot Windows and Linux. I would like to continue using the Windows bootloader in my MBR.
I installed Windows 7 first. During the install I left some unallocated space that I ...
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Is it possible to upgrade Linux Mint to 64-bit remotely?
I have Linux Mint 32-bit installed on a remote server. I was wondering if I can do the upgrade to 64-bit. I have access to SSH.
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Is Flash typically slow on Linux?
Specifically, I'm running Mint 8 (Helena). I'm extremely new to Linux, and was searching for a solution that was user-friendly and GUI oriented. The box won't be used for much other than web browsing ...
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How to reset system colors
I'm using Linux Mint, MATE version. I have a weird problem that occurs quite frequently when scrolling down through log files in terminal: the machine pauses for a second or two, and when it comes ...
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Mint 13 does nothing when laptop lid is closed
I have a laptop running Mint 13.
I have it hooked up to a 30" monitor and have no use for the laptop being open, so I put it on a shelf and close it. When I do that, the monitor goes blank. The ...
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How to organize a hard drive for Linux/Windows sharing?
I have Linux Mint 14 and Windows 8 installed (dual-booting) on my computer. I mostly use Linux but still need Windows sometimes.
Here's a screenshot of the output of sudo fdisk -l command:
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Allowing VNC connections into Linux Mint
Do any programs need to be installed that aren't included in the default install of Linux Mint in order for it to allow VNC connections?
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Why would SSH via remote IP be faster than local IP?
I have a Linux server running from my house, with a DynDNS URL setup pointing to my public IP address.
One of the things I've noticed is using the remote address such as url.dyn-dns.tv or my public ...
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Why does it take longer for Linux to tell me that my user password is wrong, than it does for Windows?
I use both Linux Mint and Windows 7 depending on the task. I've noticed that when I try to login in with an incorrect password it takes longer to tell me so in Linux than it it does in Windows 7.
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How to run UNetBootin (or similar) on Linux?
I am trying to install UNetbootin on my Linux Mint (12 - KDE) machine and it will not run. I downloaded the Linux version of it (downloads as a unetbootin-linux-581 file) and set its permission to ...
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Unable to lock the administration directory (sudo apt-get upgrade && apt-get update)
I am having troubles running the following command on my Linux Mint partition:
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
This is the first I have ever encountered this, and I run this command ...
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Running out of disk space on /home directory?
I have a 200GB HD and have just installed Linux Mint (12 - KDE) as the only OS (I formatted and wiped my previous Windows 7 installation). I am in the process of installing my "sandbox" and because ...
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How to disable Alt-f shortcut binding from file menu access key under Cinnamon Mint 13 (Maya)?
I'm running Cinnamon on Linux Mint 13 (Maya). I want to disable the terminal file menu access shortcut as it's bound to Alt+f and I'd rather use that shortcut to move forward a word in bash.
I ...
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Adjusting laptop display brightness doesn't work in Linux Mint 14
I recently installed Linux Mint 14 on my Samsung R580 laptop. The Fn-keys worked out of the box, I can switch screens, adjust volume and so on.
When I try to adjust the brightness (Fn + ↑/↓), the ...
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What is the Linux equivalent of Window's PATH
In Windows I set my PATH to point to my JDK bin folder so I can easily run commands that involve Java. What is the equivalent of this for Linux distros?
I am using Linux Mint 13.
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Can't Copy to Clipboard from Vim
I'm running Vim 7.3 under Linux Mint 13 (using MATE) and I'm not able to save text to the system clipboard. I run Vim in the terminal and copy text from the terminal with CTRLINSERT. When I select ...
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Dreamweaver and Photoshop on Linux Mint
I have a simple question.
Is it legal to use Dreamweaver and Photoshop (both bought legally) on linux using Wine?
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Updating LibreOffice on Linux clients
We currently have Linux Mint installed on a number of devices and would like to upgrade the version of LibreOffice installed i.e. 3.4.4 to the latest version of 3.5.2 however upon running the command ...
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Increase of virtualbox disk size
I need to increase my disk space in my guest Mint Linux, on a Mac OS host.
First I increased the virtual disk in the host with:
VboxManage modifyhd Mint.vdi --resize 20480
The GUI of VirtualBox ...
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SMPlayer does not disable screensaver
I am running SMPlayer 0.8.0 (mplayer frontend) on Linux Mint 14 64bit, when I play a movie and stop using the peripherals the screensaver kicks in after a while.
I have checked the "Disable ...
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Nothing happens when trying to upgrade from Linux Mint 12 to 13
I am trying to upgrade from Linux Mint 12 to 13 using apt-get. After running the following commands, nothing seems to happen. I am fairly new to linux, what am I doing wrong?
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GNS3 on Linux Mint
I want to install GNS3 on my Linux Mint. The website gave me to files to download
GNS3-0.8.3-src.tar.gz
GNS3-0.8.3-src.tar.bz2
I download them both but because i dont know the diference and i never ...
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Error - unknown filesystem grub rescue - Can't boot from any other media whatsoever
So I've been trying anything and everything under the sun to fix this problem.
Have a lenovo Y570 laptop and decided to duel boot linux mint alongside windows 7.
I partitioned some space on the ...
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Terminal freezes in Linux Mint 12
Since I installed Linux Mint 12, I'm encountering problems in the terminal.
I'm working with two tabs in the terminal.
Sometimes, when I launch a command on the terminal, it's not refreshed, like ...
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Apache configuration in Mint 14 not working
I usually install mysql, apache and php using the following commands
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql
but after I did a fresh upgrade to Linux mint 14, I got these ...
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Disable < Alt > + F1 keyboard shortcut in Cinnamon
I am running Linux Mint 14 with Cinnamon. Currently < Alt > + F1 opens the 'Expo' mode, showing all workspaces.
I would simply like to unbind/disable this shortcut, where can I do this?
I have ...
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How can I extend Lisa's taskbar across both monitors?
I've just installed Linux Mint 12 Lisa and would like to extend the bottom taskbar to both monitors.
Lisa uses a fork of Gnome Shell (Gnome 3) called Cinnamon
How can I do this?
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python 2.6 or 2.7 (scientific packags support) and mint linux which packages to install (-dev, etc.)
Hey, trying to install python 2.6 on Linux Mint 11 "katya" 64 bit. I'm about 6 months hobbyist experience with Python and about an hour and a half with linux mint (had toyed with linux a few years ...
