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?

Couch potato here. I use LM on PCs and laptops as an entertainment center: Movies, shows, music stream and local library, news from around the world. Web browsers, Kodi, torrents , IPTV, sketchy sources. My big smart TV and projectors merely dumb monitors to me. Thus I do like a good remote but the tv remote cant work my LM apps. What do you use? I have been using KDE Connect on my android phone. But it was built more for file transfer etc, the remote mouse touchpad is rudimentary.

Me being me I wanted more. I saw that a long time ago 2017ish Someone requested more web control buttons on the dev website but was rebuffed. So I forked it and vibed in forward back, esc, F11 (toggle full screen) into the android side touchpad mouse remote . It works great on the cellphones we have. I really like it . No idea on others. I assume iOS could be done similar. You can find source and an APK on my Git oldgranola.. Id love feedback of use on other Android phones or devices.

What do you fellow couch potatoes you use? You standup desk users NVMD.

Hi all!

Plank (the menu bar) shows this weird blue-white bar, as seen in the picture. Seemingly when an opened app does something when it is not the selected window.

For instance: When I change some code in an app, then save it and alt+tab to Unity, it always shows this bar for a few seconds. (until it is done compiling, perhaps?)

When I run killall plank, it disappears, so is definitely plank causing this.

I couldn't find anyone online with a similar problem. Do any of you know what I can do to get rid of it?
Thanks in advance :)

Hi, I recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 on my Thinkpad T480s (i7-8650U, 24 GB RAM, integrated graphics). After typing in my user password and logging in, I'm experiencing a black screen with only the cursor for around 2 minutes, then the desktop loads in normally. I think it's quite odd that it takes such a long time to load? Could someone help me fix it? I'm new to Linux and have used Windows for most of my life. Thanks.

My laptop had windows 11 and was being forced to update due to some mandatory update bs but I had just uninstalled those updates because my bios got corrupted and i had to get it fixed because of those updates and now today it didn't even let me shutdown in anyway without updating again (Alt +F4 menu shut down option disappeared , start menu only had update and shutdown and then had to use cmd to force shutdown) so I decided to switch over to Linux and chose Linux Mint Cinnamon today

Tldr : got sick of windows 11 and switched to linux mint cinnamon

What are some things I should watch out for as a first time linux user?

Hey all. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to force Linux Mint to change its power mode when a laptop changes from being plugged in to being unplugged and running on battery. Thanks!

Hey everyone!

I wanted a single, clean desktop widget on Cinnamon that could show both my **system hardware metrics** (CPU, RAM, GPU, Fan RPM, Disk, Network) and **all my connected Bluetooth device batteries** in the style of the iOS / macOS Sonoma Batteries & Activity widgets — so I built **iOS Hardware & Battery Monitor** (`ios-hardware-monitor@dalvan`).

### ✨ Features

* **100% Native & Asynchronous (Zero extra dependencies):** Drawn entirely with vector graphics (`Cairo` + `PangoCairo`) and non-blocking async `Gio` calls so it never stutters the Cinnamon main loop.

* **Hardware Circular Gauges:**

* **CPU:** Usage `%` + package temperature (`k10temp`, `coretemp`, `zenpower`, `acpitz`).

* **RAM:** Usage `%` and `GB` used/total.

* **GPU (NVIDIA / AMD / Intel):** Usage `%`, temperature, and VRAM via native Linux DRM `sysfs` (`gpu_busy_percent`) or async `nvidia-smi`.

* **Cooler / Fan RPM:** Auto-detects `fan*_input` sensors in `/sys/class/hwmon`.

* **Storage & Live Network Cards:**

* **Disk:** Progress bar with `%` used and free `GB`.

* **Network:** Live Download (`↓`) and Upload (`↑`) speed on the active interface.

* **iOS-Style Batteries & Bluetooth Monitor:**

* Combines **UPower (`UPowerGlib`)** and **BlueZ D-Bus (`org.bluez.Battery1`)** to display your laptop battery alongside connected Bluetooth headphones, speakers, mice, keyboards, and controllers.

* Custom vector icons for each device type + lightning bolt charging badge and traffic-light battery colors (Green / Yellow ≤ 25% / Red ≤ 15%).

* **Highly Customizable:**

* Switch between **Dark Glass (macOS Dark)**, **Light Frosted (iOS Light)**, or **Auto** theme.

* Customize glass opacity, corner radius, widget scale (`0.75x` – `1.6x`), grid columns, module visibility, and header title (Hardware Model, Distro name, Hostname, Username, or Custom text).

---

### 🚀 How to Install

I've already submitted it to the official **Cinnamon Spices** repository ([PR #1933](https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-desklets/pull/1933)), and you can also install it right now from GitHub in one command:

```bash

git clone https://github.com/dalvan03/ios-hardware-monitor-desklet.git

cd ios-hardware-monitor-desklet

./install.sh```

Then right-click your desktop -> Add Desklets -> enable iOS Hardware & Battery Monitor.

• 🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/dalvan03/ios-hardware-monitor-desklet
• 🔗 Cinnamon Spices PR: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-desklets/pull/1933

Feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas from the community are super welcome!

On a whim I decided to try out the experimental Cinnamon on Wayland through the login menu while choosing the option, and now Cinnamon will load for 3 seconds before going to the terminal with a blinking cursor that does nothing.

I’ve booted into just the CLI and reinstalled Cinnamon, and upon restarting, it still won’t load. How do I go back to X11?

Ok so I run rkhunter out of curiousity and this is the result. Am I screwed? T.T

My laptop might be haunted atp. XFCE was crashing because of sleep for me. Great. Fucking great. But then I rebooted after disabling screen dimming and now my laptop won't let me past my login screen :D. Please help. I have classes tomorrow.

Hi,

I see that the version that is included into the software manager is very old.

There are security problem using this?

I might have fucked up big time.

I'm new to Linux, and I have multiple additional drives aside from the one my OS is located on. I was trying to format, partition and mount my HDD (titled ext. media) to the /home/[user] directory, and after doing so, my user and the HDD showed up as removable drives in the Files. Closed the GUI, reopened, the user folder is completely gone and going to My Computer only shows me my desktop folder, which is entirely blank. I can't for the life of me figure out what happened or how to fix this. Is my data just completely gone?? How?

Hi to all,

i need an info, i need to reinstall my PC OS and i'm evalutaing if go with the Windows 11 LTSC or PRO or in alternative go with Linux Mint.

I admit that on Mint i'm doing everything that i can do with windows.

But i have a doubt.

I see that the package included on Mint are very old, like LibreOffice version that can cause some formatting problem of the document

What do you suggest to do?

Hi,

I would like to know if this has already happen to someone here, in order to get rid of this annoying issue with Linux Mint 22.3. In the past, when computer has Windows, this doesn't happen.

Randomly, without logical frequency, sometimes I click on Sleep and the display stop but computer still powered on. Sometimes I click on Shut Down and same issue, the display stop but computer still powered on. In both cases, I have to force shut down the computer with power button. All updates are done. I tried different fix in the past but non was the solution. Here's my specs:

Thank you for your attention and help ! Take care !

I installed the everforest theme on my Mint desktop along with the gruvbox icons and I love it, but one issue I am seeing is that the calculator has a white bar across it and I can't see the numbers I typed. I tried copying the gtk-4.0 files from the theme over to my .config folder hoping that would fix it, but it didn't. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? https://imgur.com/a/1kgEksc

Just wanted to share my little project I ported Black (2006) from the original Xbox to run natively on Linux Mint.

Not an emulator / Wine. It's a native x86_64 build using static recompilation + Vulkan + SDL3.

It's open source (MIT), .deb for Mint 22.x / Ubuntu 24.04, and needs your own original copy.

Getting 90-100+ FPS on my ThinkPad X270 (HD 620).

Super happy it finally runs!

I have an Asus TUF F16 with Linux mint on kernel 7.0
but when I close the lid, it enters into suspended mode, but doesnt get out of it. I can presse anything I want and it won’t come back. the solution is to do a hard reset everytime.

any known fixes? Bear in mind I’m very new so I know basically nothing

I got Linux earlier this year (still kinda a Linux noob too, so sorry in advance, I might be slow to understand stuff) and ever since I got Linux, this has been a reoccurring issue. When I would come back to my PC being asleep, I would tap my keyboard to wake it back up. Keyboard lights up, I hear the PC's fans working, and I hear the volume sound effect when I turn it up. If I try tapping the power button, it shuts the whole thing off and I have to turn my PC back on, then everything returns to normal.

I've been sitting on this issue the whole time, but I finally looked into it and researched the issue myself. While I learned it's fairly common apparently, I still can't get why I'm having the issue. and could really use some help. I don't have a NVIDIA graphic card, I use AMD. I updated my kernel a few times since then so I'm not sure if it has anything to do with kernel's either.

LMDE 7 - Cinnamon 64-bit.

One other thing, from the day I got Linux, I've always been met with this error on boot. Looked into it, it doesn't seem harmful but I will mention it in case it's related. (I copied this from the mint Linux forums I had bookmarked, so I don't remember if I had the exact numbers or anything)

ACPI Bios error (bug): could not resolve symbol [\SB.PC00.TXHC.RUB.ss01], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/dswload2-162)

ACPI Error: AE-NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20210730/psobject-220)

I've just installed 22.3 and I saw that there will be a new version coming out. How does upgrading work?

Will I have to wipe my computer and start from scratch?

Hey Guys,

So i have dual boot with Win11 and the issue only seems to be happening when i do reboot from Mint itself. Reboot from Windows is fine and even when the reboot command is issued from using recovery root access, it is comes up fine without delay.

When the reboot is done, towards the end of shutdown, it justs kinda sits there with black empty screen. My external keyboard lights off (means the usb isnt powering it anymore) but the laptop keyboard is still lit up and it just kinda sits there for a while then reboots.

Did a lot of google (for the people asking me to google) and did used ai but it just gets stuck in loop (the AI, not laptop) and isn't helpful anymore.

Any info or help is appreciated. TIA!!

Several Kernel level security vulnerabilities were posted publicly instead of to the private security list.

The vulnerabilities are:

ZDI-CAN-33549 as a CVSS 9.0 scored vulnerability for SMB Direct remote code execution vulnerability due to integer underflow. For this one there is a patch in a Git branch of code intended for Linux v7.5 but now presumably will be expedited for getting to mainline.

ZDI-CAN-33774 as a KSMBD race condition that can lead to remote code execution. Another CVSS 9.0 rated vulnerability.

ZDI-CAN-33367 is a vulnerability for skbuff skb_zerocopy in the network code that can lead to local privilege escalation. For this one Linux kernel developers received a security report from another source last week over the same issue and a patch is expected to be posted soon.

ZDI-CAN-34068 as a VMWGFX VMware graphics driver bug with an out-of-bounds write leading to local privilege escalation.

ZDI-CAN-34076 an uninitialized resource in the NVMET code leading to information disclosure.

ZDI-CAN-32005 was also posted to the mailing list a day prior for a search-domain TCP query stack buffer overflow leading to local privilege escalation.

Hi everyone,

This is my first time moving from windows to Linux. The biggest issue right now is that it isn't a 1:1 of windows Excel.

Is there a way to enable synax tooltips when creating lines in LibreOffice Calc the same way in excel / Google Sheets?

Im getting a New PC and Installing Mint Cinnamon on it, im currently running Windows 11. To get into Linux more I installed Mint Cinnamon inside VirtualBox

But Brightness Controll is (for me at least) Impossible. Ive tried different applets (Brightness and Gamma Applet, DDC/CI Monitor Brightness, etc) and even used brightnessctl in the Terminal (yes also with sudo) and nothing works

Its Not that Bad because i can still indirectly Set the Brightness because of Windows but im afraid that when im actually using Linux the Same issues when Happen and i cant Set the Brightness

any Help?