I just installed Mint on an older Macbook Air. Wi-Fi works fine at first, although this notification pops up every couple minutes saying "Activation of network connection failed even though the Wi-Fi is connected and working.

The problem is, as soon as the computer goes to sleep, when I wake it up the Wi-Fi just won't connect. I go into the settings and it doesn't show any networks.

I'm sure there's more information needed, but I'm pretty new to this so I don't know what, or where to get it. If someone can give me commands to run to get more info or something I should be able to do that.

My bios is American Megatrends, i've been trying to remove every single trace of windows including the option to boot it. When i select the windows boot option in bios it just opens the recovery mode

https://preview.redd.it/z5mg18v0lzzd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c5d2f2468cf72e85ad8c5fa730c7cbd76fb0c4e

These are my partitions

Probably a very novice question, but after an update today, Borderless Windowed Fullscreen windows (ProtonGE + FFXIV in this instance) gain borders when they lose focus. For comparison, the previous version retained the borderless window when unfocused, but had a bug where you couldn't click on the taskbar.

Is there a setting I can change in Cinnamon or X11 to remove the borders/titlebar when unfocused, or perhaps a plugin I should add? I did some poking around in the basic Windows Settings, but didn't see anything relevant.

• OS: LMDE 6 Faye
• Cinnamon: 6.2.9
• Kernel: 6.1.0-27-amd64

So I was streaming from a capture card hooked to my PC and after I disconnected the capture card to remove the extra monitor source, the panel disappeared from both my monitors. There doesn't seem to be any way to get them back. I re-attached the capture card to see if they were on that display, but they were not. None of the 3 possible displays will show a panel. Rebooting or restarting cinnamon does absolutely nothing to solve this.

Using the panel app in settings shows this in terminal:

https://preview.redd.it/5m11ai9y8zzd1.png?width=654&format=png&auto=webp&s=08bc14c31b4b54559d954b431aab4ca9c6c101a1

Anyone know how to fix this and restore panels. It's kind of hard to use my PC without any ability to click windows in the panel to bring them up or even see what I have open.

Does anyone know of a way to completely hide the desktop panel? (like the way it looks + using an OLED monitor and need to minimize static elements on screen).

Cinnamon is pretty much the same way Windows was prior to 11 - meaning that it always leaves a tiny bit of panel visible even when it's auto-hidden, and MATE will still show accent color on the icon of whatever app you're focused on even when the panel is auto-hidden and completely transparent.

Hey, I recently started using Linux Mint as my main os, I still have to use windows for specific things sometimes tho(virtual desktop streamer, cura and a few games), I've been running Linux Mint on a random 500gb Samsung SSD I had leftover, I wanna move it to my 2tb nvme now, I dont have a big problem with having to reinstall windows on the 500gb drive after moving, its half broken anyways so yea, but I think i kinda care about my linux mint install so yea

I tried downloading Todoist (a productivity app that is supported in Linux according to the website) using the terminal and snap packet manager as it is not supported in apt. The installation worked and i got a file, when i execute it, this error comes up:

Gtk-Message: 22:10:47.575: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

22:10:47.674 › SNAP env is defined, updater is disabled

22:10:47.680 › SNAP env is defined, updater is disabled

dbus-send: /snap/todoist/1326/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3: version `LIBDBUS_PRIVATE_1.12.16' not found (required by dbus-send)

[14558:1109/221047.880602:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Inhibit: object_path= /org/freedesktop/login1: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.188" (uid=1000 pid=14558 comm="/snap/todoist/1326/todoist --no-sandbox" label="snap.todoist.todoist (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" member="Inhibit" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.login1" (uid=0 pid=836 comm="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind" label="unconfined")

Can someone tell me what this means?

Hi everyone,

I’m facing a frustrating issue with my ASUS TUF A16 Advantage Edition laptop (AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS, Radeon 680M iGPU, RX 7600S dGPU) when running Linux. I've tried Linux Mint (Cinnamon and XFCE) and Ubuntu, but in all cases, I encounter weird display artifacts (flickering bar at the top of the screen) on the internal display. The problem persists both on X11 and Wayland.

I’ve tested various drivers (open-source and proprietary), but nothing has worked. However, when I boot into Windows, everything runs perfectly without any graphical glitches, which leads me to believe this is a driver or kernel issue on Linux. This is my first time with Linux, so if anyone knows how to solve this problem, please provide detailed instructions.

I’ll attach a photo showing the issue, the bar visible in the photo is constantly flashing and everything lags and moves slowly. Has anyone experienced this and found a solution?

Thanks in advance!

If I switch from Ubuntu to Mint Cinnamon should I go with the latest version or is an earlier version more stable? I don't have to wrangle with Nvidia thankfully.

I accidentally ran a script that cleared out my pulse settings and reinstalled pulse and also. After rebooting I noticed that in pavucontrol the HDMI sound is coming out of the "Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input" profile instead of the "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input" profile as it was originally. Any way to reset it? These are my current `pacmd list-cards` settings:

pacmd list-cards

1 card(s) available.

index: 0

`name: <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3>`

`driver: <module-alsa-card.c>`

`owner module: 7`

`properties:`

	`alsa.card = "0"`

	`alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"`

	`alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf5328000 irq 147"`

	`alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"`

	`device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3"`

	`sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0"`

	`device.bus = "pci"`

	[`device.vendor.id`](http://device.vendor.id) `= "8086"`

	[`device.vendor.name`](http://device.vendor.name) `= "Intel Corporation"`

	[`device.product.id`](http://device.product.id) `= "9d71"`

	[`device.product.name`](http://device.product.name) `= "Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio"`

	`device.form_factor = "internal"`

	`device.string = "0"`

	`device.description = "Built-in Audio"`

	`module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"`

	`device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"`

`profiles:`

	`input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (priority 32833, available: unknown)`

	`output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority 39268, available: unknown)`

	`output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (priority 39333, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (priority 38668, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 38733, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 33568, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 33633, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround71: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 33568, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround71+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 33633, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-stereo-extra1: Digital Stereo (HDMI 2) Output (priority 5700, available: no)`

	`output:hdmi-stereo-extra1+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI 2) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 5765, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround-extra1: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 2) Output (priority 600, available: no)`

	`output:hdmi-surround-extra1+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 2) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 665, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround71-extra1: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 2) Output (priority 600, available: no)`

	`output:hdmi-surround71-extra1+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 2) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 665, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-stereo-extra2: Digital Stereo (HDMI 3) Output (priority 5700, available: no)`

	`output:hdmi-stereo-extra2+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI 3) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 5765, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround-extra2: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 3) Output (priority 600, available: no)`

	`output:hdmi-surround-extra2+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 3) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 665, available: unknown)`

	`output:hdmi-surround71-extra2: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 3) Output (priority 600, available: no)`

	`output:hdmi-surround71-extra2+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 3) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 665, available: unknown)`

	`off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)`

`active profile: <output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo>`

`sinks:`

	`alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo/#22: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo`

`sources:`

	`alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo/#14: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo`

	`alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor/#24: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo`

`ports:`

	`analog-input-internal-mic: Internal Microphone (priority 8900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)`

		`properties:`

device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"

	`analog-input-mic: Microphone (priority 8700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)`

		`properties:`

device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"

	`analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)`

		`properties:`

device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"

	`analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)`

		`properties:`

device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"

	`hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (priority 5900, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)`

		`properties:`

device.icon_name = "video-display"

device.product.name = "SONY TV *00"

	`hdmi-output-1: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 (priority 5800, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)`

		`properties:`

device.icon_name = "video-display"

	`hdmi-output-2: HDMI / DisplayPort 3 (priority 5700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)`

		`properties:`

device.icon_name = "video-display"

I installed Plank to make my desktop look more like mac and I have this weird line that is always present. I find it quite annoying. See the photo.

It changes sizes with the icon size in the Plank preferences, so I know they're related but no setting gets rid of it.

https://preview.redd.it/q1i9jjqqkxzd1.png?width=1921&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6a73d16a928c667246cbc55ee8cd59cade5203f

EDIT: Solved my own issue. In Window Manager Tweaks, navigate to the Compositor tab. Uncheck "Show shadows under dock windows" and that's it lol. Took more looking around than I wanted and now other dock windows don't have a shadow but I like it anyway.

After recently formatting my external hdd with gpt table and ext4 format, I've been having a strange issue. About every second, the hard drive gets accessed and clicks, keeping the drive awake. I have no backup programs running, nor are any programs accessing the drive.

After some research, I found that it could be the ext4 journaling every second, but I cannot find an easy way to reduce the frequency, and it might be something else.

Thanks in advance!

Replaced my t480 with this, had a good time so far for the day I had it lol, installing mint was a little difficult because of windows and secure boot. Now what should I do to the copilot key?

can i install linux mint on my pc without usb

After fiddling with the settings a bit and making some changes, I finally arrived at a result that I am satisfied with.

So I've been thinking of getting a new laptop (Likely to use an NVIDIA Card) that I could use for both work and also playing Valorant. Thing is, i'm starting to hate Windows more and more and have been meaning to setup Linux for a while now, but I'd like to have a dual boot setup with Windows for compatibility reasons, such as being able to play Valorant (Which needs Windows + Secure boot enabled for their Anticheat).

So the requirements are:

- Linux Mint and Windows 10/11 in Dual Boot

- Secure boot enabled

- NVIDIA Graphics Drivers working

Would a setup with these specifications be viable, or let alone work in the first place? I know that it's overly specific, but I'd like to find out a bit more about linux before committing to anything.

Does Linux Mint wins against "Distro Hoping"? Only your answers, detective guesses, responses, opinions, and discussions

ATTENTION: Before reading the post, I am not making a post to have comments about this is a fake, but just to tell how Linux Mint or something else changed the performance of devices. Tested on iMac 2012 (my first pc), PC 2005 (presented to me for tests), GeForce 1070 Ti (my second pc), GeForce RTX 4090 (my current pc) my brother Lenovo laptop (not weak or powerful, I don't know what kind of laptop it has, but there is a touch screen surprisingly)

Okay, I just decided to test a new Kernel 6.8.0-48 (Supported until April 2019), and all of the system issues have disappeared. I have Gnome Shell, I use GE-Proton9-16 on Steam, and I downloading GE-Proton9-18 while writing this post. You know, it happens that the fps is small, not like on Windows, but I was shocked when I saw that the fps is higher than on Windows, I can play normally in Halo: The Master Chief Collection, even when there were glitches with video graphics in the game, but now it's just shocking content for me, it's the first time I've seen more fps than on Windows in such a long time because it's never easy to explain it, I've been using Linux Mint since 2006 or 2008, and I honestly couldn't notice as many fps two years ago as I see today; I'm in tears. I'm not sure, my brother on a laptop running Gnome Shell (lightdm) loses cursor in the Brave browser after updating anything, but it's just tough, since suddenly nothing slows down like Windows 10 and 11. I'm still shocked!!!

IF YOU TRY TO DO THE SAME ON YOUR COMPUTER/LAPTOP, THEN YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY THAT YOUR SITUATION IS DIFFERENT, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT IT MAY DEPEND ON SOMETHING ELSE AND I USE THE SAME THING EVERYWHERE

I tryna update my Linux Mint 21.3 to 22 but it failed and broke my Linux Installation, I'm upgrading it because I wanna play Roblox on Linux, and I got a weird error trying to update 21.3 to 22, it leads to my GPU (IDK) since my GPU is NVIDIA GT 730 (It doesn't support Vulkan), but moving to the original question, can Linux Mint 21.3 run Sober?

(Sorry for my bad English)

Hi all, i just bought an Asus Vivobook 15 M1505YA. I installed Mint 22 but i couldn't make the WiFi and Bluetooth to work. My wireless adapter is the infamous Mediatek MT7902 and for the time being, i'm planning to replace it with a USB one. But what about the Bluetooth? Has anyone encountered something similar?

Thanks in advance! :)

Hi, I installed Linux mint 22 xfce day ago. Now OS is not working properly. Wifi is not connecting, usb is not showing, not able to install drivers , not able to partition. My device Asus Vivobook-X540MAR-X543MA.

Hello everyone,

I tried to ask for help at the cairo github, but the registration process is broken and I couldn't join the site to be allowed to post to help.

I have Cairo-Dock installed and found a great theme as a starting point to edit exactly the dock appearance I wanted. I googled for running multiple docks on a multi monitor setup and found documentation that you can make as many docs as you wish but need to name them uniquely.

So I selected Cairo-Dock>Add>Main Dock and a duplicate of my dock appeared atop my left monitor dock. I then opened preferences and on Position I selected center monitor and the duplicate dock immediately moved to monitor 2 leaving the monitor 1 dock in place and functioning.

The issue is I cannot find the option to name the duplicated dock and now when I goto the Cairo-Dock preferences, the monitor position is set to center, indicating the preferences are effecting the 2nd dock. I cannot find how to get to the settings for dock 1, when I click specifically on dock 1 and select preferences from there, it still shows the active monitor position as center not left.

Can anyone help me name these docks so I can toggle between their preferences? I still have a 3rd monitor I need to add a dock for but I want to get this worked out first.

Thank you for reading,

Logan

My daugther has got a lecture today at the Bologna University and she has sent me a picture...she's a Linux Mint only user as i am and this Is filling our hearts🥲

My speakers are always making a hum noise when using Mint.

Fun things is, when I open sound settings, it stops! Just opening sound settings.

They same when playing music or videos, the noise just stops, even when the video is just silent.

When I close sound settings or the music sources, the hum comes back and I have to lower speaker volume manually for it to not give me headache.

Even changing sound levels to 0% inside the OS doesn't make the hum dissapear.

Any solutions? It didn't happen to me on Fedora, Ubuntu nor Debian.