Right now it defaults to

Brother HL-L3300CDW

when it should default to

eSCL Brother HL-L3300CDW series

how do i fix this? I'm assuming it's editing a configuration file somewhere. Just not sure where.

Sorry about the poor image quality.

I should clarify that I only have one physical scanner/printer. Document Scanner is just defaulting to the wrong option in the scanner software.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50117987

I’m having an issue in linux mint 22.3 cinnamon where the GUI locks up but audio still plays and the mouse cursor still moves. The solution is to press ctrl+alt+f1 to take me to a terminal and then press ctrl+alt+f7 to go back to the GUI. Then everything works fine. Forgive me, I do not know what to call the terminal when accessing ctrl+alt+f1 other than tty1.

I also have an issue where when using a browser (librewolf / waterfox / zen) and using the pop out video window, sometimes over time it will lock in the main browser window and the solution is to minimise and restore the window. Sounds related.

I am new to linux and not sure where to start. I think there is something up with the cinnamon desktop environment but I do not know what. Hardware has been stress tested, multiple components, multiple days. I think it is a software issue but could be wrong, that is why I am asking for help.

Any help / thoughts much appreciated.

Thank you.

As a matter of good data hygiene, I've moved my home folder unofficially to a second drive and click-dragged folders into the left MyComputer panel.

On a fresh boot, those folders have an orange exclamation mark on them. If I click, I get a "Could not find [location] error."

When I click on the drive in Nemo (Under My Devices), the exclamation points clear and the shortcuts are accessible.

I don't think it's JUST Nemo, because Asunder also can't find a folder (and it annoyingly reassigns the folder when it does).

The drive is set to automount at startup and be visible in UI with no additional authorization.

May be of interest:

schipelblort@schipelblort-MS-7C02:~/Desktop$ cat fstab
cat: fstab: No such file or directory
schipelblort@schipelblort-MS-7C02:~/Desktop$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p3 during installation
UUID=a2cc79fc-e10e-45a9-b33d-f88b8e8f5b56 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation
UUID=F960-1EE4  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/4a7c4523-15a1-4552-b696-c0f510d57184 /mnt/4a7c4523-15a1-4552-b696-c0f510d57184 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
schipelblort@schipelblort-MS-7C02:~/Desktop$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   3.6T  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    0   3.6T  0 part /mnt/4a7c4523-15a1-4552-b696-c0f510d57184
sr0          11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
nvme0n1     259:0    0 953.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0     1M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   513M  0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 953.4G  0 part /
schipelblort@schipelblort-MS-7C02:~/Desktop$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for schipelblort:          
/dev/nvme0n1p3: UUID="a2cc79fc-e10e-45a9-b33d-f88b8e8f5b56" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="c7b27e82-8a50-4d42-a90d-c9f8937a713b"
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="F960-1EE4" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="b1c74bb7-e22f-4dc6-9f2e-4d7350c1a42b"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="MyData" UUID="4a7c4523-15a1-4552-b696-c0f510d57184" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="4448ba6e-63aa-4a08-a2de-32bcc50125a4"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: PARTUUID="5f108e85-c24a-4750-b0d9-0d9830e05281"

This could go in a lot of sections (privacy, open source, Linux, degoogle...) but I thought it best to put it here.

In the last couple of weeks I've given a new lease of life to a ten year old Lenovo Windows 10 machine, and a six year old Chromebook, by installing Mint on both (Mint XCFE on the latter as its not as beefy as the laptop).

Both now run really fast, are running on wonderful open source software, and are more secure than ever. Needless to say I am pleased to have nuked Microsoft and Google from the equation.

That's all really. A huge thank you to Linux Mint and all who sail in her. I appreciate each of you.

❤️

Edit: Superwide is work machine. Can't get away from Windows on that unfortunately.

Edit: Thanks everyone thar tried to help. I will install the OS, sinse the problemm looks a bit more complex then I initially thought 🥲

Hi, I ve been exploring some wm and came across i3wm. Ive been loving the workflow for it. Currently im using lm cinnamon and installed i3 on top. But I think its a janky setup.

is there a way to get mint stability + workflow of i3?

Hello all,

I'm currently running Mint 22.3 Cinnamon and I would like to be able to rearrange my drive order in "Devices" section of Nemo file browser. It seems to be using alphabetical order at the moment, I'm not sure if it's even possible but any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Specifically, I would like to move my "work" dive to the top of the list above my audio visual drive as that's my main drive I work on, and the removable "AV" drive just holds a temp pool of clips for editing.

Thanks in advance!

I've had this issue since the first day I started using linux about 15 years ago. Always the same issue, transfers start fine and slows down to a crawl, only on USB sticks.

The USB sticks are fine, I can make bootable sticks in five minutes but if I copy a file of similar size to them is half an hour and then five to ten more minutes waiting to be able to safely remove the drive.

There are dozens of forum posts, some blaming the drives, others the GUI, dirty buffers, outdated kernels, fastboot for some reason. Others marked as solved without a solution because it magically solved itself.

I've been using Mint for a while on a home server, running 21.3. I'm new to administering Linux despite years of using it in development and puzzled about how one can make Update Manager tolerable.

Update Manager is nice in showing updates that are available but I don't understand why one has to supply their administrator password multiple times. Why not just once like using sudo with command line tools? 2 or 3 times is annoying, but when a flatpak package is updated it can be 10-20 times before the updates are done. Is there anyway to avoid this? The fact that I don't see tons of complaints about this makes me think it's just me and I must have something mis-configured. Any ideas?

A friend of mine uses Linux Mint as their operating system. But since a while now they're unable to get the microphone audio to work. It's detected by the operating system and applications, but no audio is detected by the application or heard by participants, except for Discord.

I wasn't able to find the cause of this issue, we've tried common solutions like rebooting, removing the device from the Bluetooth device lists (they use headphones), etc.

Any help would be very appreciated :)

Issues with auto-mounting on Linux Mint 22.x?

Probably a highly specific issue, but in a hardware with one physical memory for the #LinuxMint system, two for miscellaneous data physically attached to the motherboard and auto-mounted through Disks, and ten or so data USB devices attached most through an USB hub, some times at boot one of the media devices attached to the motherboard isn't auto-mounted, EFI taking its place as the auto-mounted folder.

Also, way more rarely, some times one of the USB devices at the USB hub isn't recognized even by KDE's Dolphin, which lists mounted and mountable devices, despite the hub showing no issues otherwise.

Checking during a session just now where EFI hijacked one of the mount folders, every single device was properly configured, including the one that should be mounted but wasn't.

With Linux Mint 21.2 Xfce, which I used for years before going to 22.2 Cinnamon and now 22.3 Xfce (always clean installs), there were no issues with mounting even with the exact same hardware combination. Meanwhile both 22.x systems I tried had this issue, though seemingly a bit less frequent in Xfce.

Asking some LLM after digging through forums without luck, it claimed that the issue could be a combination of the update of several drivers and kernel changing how the system handles mount logic, identification timing, etc., suggesting I mount through UUID identification instead. But hardware not being my forte, even if I have some notion of what UUIDs are, I'm extra suspicious of such a response.

So back to the question, are there known issues with Mint's handling of auto-mounting? And furthermore, how could the issue be mitigated or even avoided completely?

Thanks in advance!

Linux Mint datahoarding/backup tip: "apt download" fetches the .deb files of both the package and its dependencies

#linuxmint #datahoarding

E.g.:

• apt download vlc
• apt download dolphin

Only problems are it requires sudo, it only works with one package at a time (so apt download vlc dolphin won't work), and the script that comes with it for easy installation runs apt (but replacing apt for dpkg -i solves that).

There's also apt-get download, which doesn't require sudo nor comes with a .sh file expecting apt, but it won't download dependencies either.

Hope it helps someone. =)

@linuxmint@lemmy.ml

ISO8601-based custom date format in Linux Mint

Right-click the calendar widget in the panel > toggle Use a custom date format > Add %Y-%m-%d%n%H:%M% to the field below.

Seconds omitted because I don't have use for them, and %n to put the hours and minutes in a second line, so it's easier to read.

Didn't test in other Debian-based systems. And iirc changing the locale to either Danish or Japanese also works, but then the system won't be in English.

Hope this helps someone. =)

#iso8601 @linuxmint@lemmy.ml

After updating linux-firmware to 20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.27 I can get past the Lenovo screen to the LM logo, but the field for the decryption password doesn't appear.

Restarting from the hanging LM logo screen after this happens, the GRUB menu appears after the Lenovo screen, and then I'm able to boot and decrypt using an earlier kernel.

I suppose I could just not update these things, but that seems like it might not be the best idea (and I may not have all my facts straight or explained things very well, I'm a little tired at the moment). I've Timeshifted back to before those updates for now. Anyway, any suggestions?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/64065505

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?

SOLVED: solution was running: killall ibus-daemon before launching. Thanks @just_another_person@lemmy.world !

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46115996

I am playing Replaced and, despite the cool style and environment design, my experience is made horrible

Whenever a WASD key is pressed there is a chance that the input may get "sticky" and continues to send the character in the same direction indefinitely, making stealth sequences impossible and resolving only by giving ASDASD as input.

Here is the likely excerpt from the logs:

../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,359: Tried to fabricate a wrong key event. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated. ../../../../modules/im/ximcp/imDefLkup.c,355: The key event is already fabricated.

I am running it in Heroic Launcher and the problem persists using GE-Proton-latest or Proton Experimental. Also, changing to the Steam Runtime or deactivating Gamemode does not help.

The ASUS RT-BE82U and the ASUS RT-AX86U Pro were suggested as replacements but those aren't available anywhere near me. after that the ASUS RT-AX88U was suggested but that also isn't available.

I realize this is a mint linux group but i'm hoping someone here as a good idea of a replacement router. I'd prefer ASUS but it needs aimesh technology because I have 2 routers in my house. this would be replacing one of them.

I need something that is at least decent for gaming and streaming of video and audio. I don't want the cheapest thing on the rack. I think the rtax82u was like $130 maybe $140 when I bought it. any suggestions?

mods if this question isn't allowed just let me know where I should post it and i will post there and delete it here. (if you delete the post then it's hard for me to copy and paste it over at the place that you want me to be at) thank you

edit : need to also ask about the ASUS TUF Gaming BE3600 is this a solid router? it's one other router that was suggested

I’m reading that Firefox has gone all AI and corporate and Brave is supported by Satan. I have a Lenovo 14 Gen 1 coming tomorrow and I’m putting Mint on it. What browser do you all like?

You can convert projects to .gif file format in Kdenlive.

1. Select Project > Render
2. Under Render Project, Select Images Sequence > GIF
3. Select Render to File

Similar general instructions here: https://www.hollyland.com/blog/tips/export-video-in-kdenlive

Just writing this here because this question (specifically about .gifs) has been asked multiple times on the internet but all available answers point to using ffmpeg.

I have tried a few different websites. My microphone indeed gives input, but when trying to connect to a call it just fails. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hi!

I have been using Mint since November and feel pretty used to it, but I do miss wallpaper engine from Windows and there does not seem to be an equivalent, analogue, or alternative to it...

...Right?

Ok, sort of a noob-type question for someone who has used Mint for a long time, but I'm having trouble correctly pinning this app Krokiet, the successor to Czkawka, to my panel. I've added the application using the menu editor, right clicking on the icon and choosing "add to panel."

And it does add it to the panel! But when I click the icon on the panel another generic square gear app appears on the panel next to the icon (see the attached cropped screenshot, I used the old Czkawka icon in place of the sheep). I've edited the .desktop files in .local/applications, but no luck. I periodically have this problem with apps that aren't in the repos or in a PPA, but I can usually get it work—but not this one! The github page has more than ten different Linux versions, maybe one might work better than another? Much obliged for any suggestions.