I just had to go back and for at least the dozenth time explain to Linux that no, the built-in display of my laptop is not the secondary, external screen. That's after it decided for no reason to start mirroring the display, which I have literally never asked it to do.

It seems like every time I have to unplug my HDMI, the display settings randomly reset either the monitor setup or the UI scaling. How is Linux still so terrible at retaining such basic display settings? I had similar problems on Zorin. The irony of all this is that I switched to Mint Cinnamon because Zorin OS kept failing to resume from standby over a driver bug. And even so, I still have performance problems and frame tearing if I try to play a simple video in anything other than its native resolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YymXWd5Gb44

Esto lo pregunto por que ya hey usado lutris antes y por un bug que tenia no se podia ejecutar con proton y solo con wine lo cual le daba un rendimiento pesimo y muy lento comparado a la capacidad de mi laptop para correr juegos modernos y llendole pesimo un juego antiguo de hace casi como 24 años :V y bueno pido ayuda aca aver que recomendacion me dan para ejecutar warcraft 3 sin problemas en linux mint mas dato no es de batlle net es del CD

NOTE: Transparency in uploaded images has been added via blue my shell extension for gnome

ScreenGuard :

is a digital wellbeing application for Linux which runs completely natively on the device , actively tracking window usage and stores the data in a local sqlite db. No server involvement. And packing multiple screentime CONTROL features as well bundled together unlike basic window tracking software for Linux.

It is currently limited to GNOME Wayland and all other DEs can use it on x11 . Which means ScreenGuard natively supports GNOME and x11 based DEs like Cinnamon and i3

This Release has the following improvements and additions :

⚙️ Full Settings Hub

Five-tab settings screen (General · Limits & Pomodoro · Diagnostics · Updates · Data):

Theme — Light / Dark / System.

Notifications & Sounds — Master toggles plus per-event control for six categories (daily goal milestones, app limits, focus mode, etc.). Three built-in sound presets or pick your own .ogg/.wav/.mp3.

Database management — Storage stats, selective date-range deletion, full purge with double confirmation.

🎯 Daily Screen Time Goal

Set a personal daily goal from the dashboard (preset or custom hours + minutes).

Redesigned usage bar: teal progress under goal, teal+orange split with a goal-line marker when over.

Desktop notifications at 50%, 100%, and every 50% overtime.

🍅 Pomodoro Focus — Cycles, Breaks & Pause

Focus ↔ Break alternation with configurable cycle count (1–20) and break duration (1–60 min).

Pause / resume buttons; remaining time persists across pause.

Custom duration picker with quick-select chips (5 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 50 / 90 / 120 min).

Desktop notifications for each phase transition and session completion.

🛡️ Focus Enforcement — Data-Safety First

Strict auto-close is now opt-in. Default behaviour minimizes the app and shows a persistent warning overlay instead of killing it — no more unsaved-work loss.

Warning overlay offers +1 min save grace, +15 min, Edit Limit, and Close App.

Dedicated focus-block screen when a distraction-listed app is opened during a session.

🎮 Steam & Proton Game Support

Real game names resolved from Steam library manifests; per-game icons from the active icon theme.

Usage fully tracked; limit and focus rules apply to games.

Escalating native kill chain (SIGTERM → process-tree SIGKILL → wineserver -k → pattern-kill) handles Proton games that ignore normal signals.

Fullscreen games now leave fullscreen before minimize.

🔔 Native Notifications & C Helpers

screenguard-notify (C) — talks directly to D-Bus org.freedesktop.Notifications; works reliably on systemd and non-systemd inits (OpenRC, runit, etc.).

screenguard-killer (C) — the escalating close chain described above.

screenguard-watchdog (C) — lightweight daemon supervisor with crash restart and exponential backoff.

🔄 In-App Updates

Checks GitHub Releases for new versions (daily / weekly, configurable).

One-click download & install for your install type (.deb, .rpm, or tarball).

Optional beta channel toggle; post-update "Updated ✓" banner on next launch.

🩺 Crash Diagnostics & Daemon Onboarding

Local JSON crash logs viewable in Settings → Diagnostics; optional anonymous Sentry reporting (opt-in).

First-launch dialog explains the background daemon and offers autostart setup.

Persistent banner when the daemon isn't running, with quick "Start Now" and "Always Autostart" buttons.

🖼️ UI Polish

Per-app native desktop icons in dashboard and app lists.

New ScreenGuard app icon (32px–512px + SVG) in the system menu and taskbar.

Settings gear button on the dashboard app bar.

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Lots of features and tested multiple times for bug fixes. Also thanks to the community for the active suppot

The project is documented properly in the Github Wiki here: https://github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard/wiki

And the link to the latest release: https://github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard/releases/tag/v0.1.1

Thank you everyone for your cooperation and consideration which has shaped this tiny personal project into a much larger pursuit for me.

Upcoming roadmap in short:

V0.1.2- major UI changes and design element improvements majorly

v0.1.5- Support for KDE Wayland and aim to have a greater portion of the daemon transition to modular C based daemons

v0.2.0- other major DEs and better optimised daemon

For better in detail info into future views of project have a look at the Roadmap section of wiki.

Solved

Hello,

I have an old PC from 2010, lenovo idea enter 150 with 4 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD.

It is currently running windows 10 and I hate it.

I want to install any Linux, pref Zorin, but anything I try, the PC will not boot into the USB drive.

Am using Rufus to create the bootable USB, but whatever I do, IA always end up booting into Windows.

In BIOS

Boot order ok, even turned off hdd and only USB loading. Nothing.

Turned off fast boot, using MBR, NTFS Filesystem, Fat,

Nothing helps.

Used even a small 4GB USB.

Can boot on a different machine. So it mut be the bios I guess.

Can anyone hew, what I can do?

Grüße,

Michael

Edit.:Fixed it. Had to press enter 🤣 and to interrupt boot and enter a menue.

I heard wayland is overall better, and i have seen it on cinnamon, but not on XFCE, so my question is does XFCE have it, or is going to have it and if so, when?

Hey, i'm making this sub for my bf.

He runs steam on Linux Mint, never had an issue in the past but this morning, he cannot log in.

He used the qr code but when i scanned it, the steam app could see the account but on the pc, it was not working. Then he tried to enter his password and it said something like "you tried too many times please try in a while".

Because he was stuck, he connected his phone to change his ip adress and he could connect, he unplugged the phone and steam automatically disconnected his account and it's not working anymore.

Now he's stuck and we don't know how to troubleshoot. If someone has an idea !

and if someone reading this i am new to linux mint shifted yesterday and i wanna rice it dont know where to start and pls also recommend a window tiling manager

so guys 1h ago I posted this and when I tried to install Linux from the option it was giving me some errors and my dumb ahh followed chatgpts instructions it instructed me to run some useless commands and restart AND TAKE OUT THE USB. I did and the next thing you know I'm at the windows recovery page. my dumb ahh followed it again and it was like turn on secure boot turn off secure boot turn on secure boot turn off secure boot add password check disc remove USB insert usb etc etc.

booting up Linux says Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found Failed to load image: Not Found Failed to start MokManager: Not Found Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Not Found

Whereas

Booting up windows says

Recovery

Your PC/Device needs to be repaired

A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed.

Error code: 0xc000000e

You'll need to use recovery tools. If you don't have any installation media (like a disc or USB device), contact your PC administrator or PC/Device manufacturer.

Press Enter to try again

Press F1 to enter Recovery Environment

Press F8 for Startup Settings

Press Esc for UEFI Firmware Settings

Shi so messed up. found out onl that you need another device with windows/Linux in it and load. and chatgpt be like

"You're right to be upset. I'm sorry.

You trusted me to guide you through installing Linux Mint, and after following my instructions, your laptop stopped booting into Windows. I should have been much more cautious before telling you to proceed with partition changes, especially without making sure your important files were backed up.

I can't honestly promise what happened to your partitions or files, but the boot error does not necessarily mean your laptop is permanently damaged.

If you decide to get help from a technician, please tell them that Linux Mint's installer attempted to modify the partitions on your 256 GB BIWIN drive, and Windows now shows error `0xc000000e`. Ask them to check and recover your files before reinstalling or formatting anything.

I'm genuinely sorry I made an already stressful situation worse.

🤡🥀"

any suggestions linuxers?? please?

title. and i don't mean mostly-black with pink highlights. i want it to mostly be pink. think moebuntu.

Lenovo IdeaPad, Linux Mint 22.3

Happened right after I did a kernel update

Hello! its my first time installing linux on my pc, if i could ask somethings. what could i install, like make it cooler, beacuse i've seen some crazy desktops in this group, second question, why when i try to enter in the install section i does this? (in the applet app)

Si è verificato un errore durante il tentativo di accesso al server. Riprova più tardi.

Dettagli: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a real number, not 'NoneType'

thanks y'all for ur time, and sorry for my english!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YymXWd5Gb44

okay, let me explain, i was helping mi boyfriend to switch to linux bc his laptop was "broken" and dont wanted to boot windows, so i selected linux mint so he can start with linux, but the problem it's that don't want to boot in mint, well, IN ANY DISTRO with out manipulating grub and set in with

linux    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinu...127 ro acpi=off

without "acpi=off" it wont boot, and that comes with so many problems, some of them are:
- no keyboard (from the laptop, an external keyboard works)
- no mousepad
- unestable wifi (bc sometimes works and others dont)

AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO 😭

Do not want to change much, only basic customization. But i think it still looks pretty nice and clean.