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How can you make the Lenovo "utility button" behave like a normal back button?
I recently purchased a Lenovo Go wireless mouse, because I specifically wanted to avoid having to use a USB-C-to-USB-A dongle with my laptop. This mouse is one of the few mice I am aware which is ...
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How to create Window which user will not be able to close in Linux GUI
Not sure even how to ask a question as the answer may depend on WM or DE so I'm not sure if there is a common answer but my plan is to create an application that will limit screen time for my kids. ...
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nemo bookmark of nfs mounted directory causes delay at cinnamon login and automount fails
I am longtime user of Linux Mint. I have just installed Mint 21.1 Cinnamon edition on a newly-built desktop PC.
I have set up a systemd mount unit to automount an nfs share at startup:
$ cat /etc/...
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Menulibre crashes cinnamon: Keeps starting in fallback mode
I created a new launcher in menulibre. After saving, menulibre crashed into fallback mode. Restarting my computer does not help. The menus are currupted.
See the error message here:
https://i.sstatic....
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Weird characters in linux Konsole
I´m running linux Konsole on top of Cinnamon graphical environment under zsh shell.
Here is the shot
The .zshrc contains the following call:
autoload -U promptinit && promptinit
prompt fade
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How to zoom cinnamon or gnome terminal window to full size via bash?
The question refers to the following environment:
Linux Mint 64, Cinnamon, version 20.x
It is known that terminal cinnamon and gnome terminal windows and their fonts can be zoomed in size via ...
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Save and switch to different display positioning configurations - Linux Mint Cinnamon
My system is Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon. I have a configuration of 3 displays.
My usual configuration with all 3 active is a little weird since the displays must be a little misaligned for the ...
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How to clear notification sent by shell script
In my script I'm sending notification to the user and prompting him to enter some data. After that I want to clear notification that was sent earlier. The notification should stay in tray until user ...
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How to edit the network adapter changes from the command line?
I have plugged a Screen Monitor (HDMI), keyboard and mouse in my Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1 machine and had set up a fixed IP address using the Graphics Interface as in the picture below: (I had taken a ...
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I can't open terminal on Linux Mint
I don't know exactly what happened, I am using this PC for a few weeks, I installed a bunch of packages yesterday and suddenly a lot of bugs started to appear.
After I boot the PC, select Linux Mint ...
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Is Cinnamon a desktop environment or a window manager? (Or both?)
As far as I understand it:
X11 is how you draw primitive things;
A (compositing) window manager is something that uses X11 to provide the tools for drawing more complex things, and position them in ...
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Is there a way to change the default, system wide folder color of a Linux Mint’s folder colors?
Well, I know that the folders’ colors on the Linux Mint (Cinnamon) are supposed to be green, as it makes a connection to the fact of the distro’s flavor.
I am interested in changing the colors of the ...
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Switching to i3wm from Cinnamon
I want to change the way that windows are layed out in cinnamon but keep all of the other features like the panel icons and menu, and interface animations. I just want windows tiled and with the ...
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Manjaro gnome to cinnamon environment
I have a manjaro gnome and i was trying to install cinnamon using terminal all operations were successful then when logged out of gnome and switched to cinnamon nothing showed up shortcuts work but no ...
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Installing Cinnamon DE on RHEL 7.5
I have a ThinkPad T580 running RHEL 7.5. I have installed epel repo and am trying to install cinnamon DE.
I used the command sudo yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop" -y to install the DE. The process ...
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