Category Archives: Tweaks

Restoring the Home desktop icon in Mint 21.1

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Alan German

The next release of Linux Mint, Version 21.1 (Vera) will be generally available later this month. In the interim there is a beta version available or testing. One of the changes in the new distro is that the icons for … Continue reading →

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Multiple installed kernels in Linux Mint

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Alan German

I noticed that a recent update was taking a long time to complete so I looked the details and found multiple instances of items such as update intramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-92-generic being processed. These are evidently related to installed kernels but, … Continue reading →

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Changing Icons in Android Pie

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Alan German

Most of the icons used in Android Pie look fine, but I really don’t like the default icon for the Calendar app. Previously, with Android Nougat, I had used the Icon Changer free app developed by Juyeong to switch the … Continue reading →

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Changing the date/time format on the panel

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Alan German

By default, the clock/calendar display on the panel in Linux Mint 19 (Tara) takes a form such as 11:15. Short and sweet – but perhaps too much so. However, the format can be easily changed by right-clicking on the calendar, … Continue reading →

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Tweaking Cinnamon’s menu in Linux Mint

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Alan German

One of life’s current mysteries is how to edit Cinnamon’s menu system in Linux Mint Version 19 (Tara). The trick is either to run cinnamon-menu-editor in Terminal or navigate to Menu – Right-click – Configure – Menu – Open the … Continue reading →

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Vertical Scroll Bars in Linux Mint Tara

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Alan German

The latest release of Linux Mint (Version 19 – Tara) uses the Mint-Y theme. Unfortunately this provides a thin scroll bar in LibreOffice Writer, does not display the single line up/down controls, and offers, to my mind, a rather strange … Continue reading →

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Turn off Timeshift warnings in Linux Mint Tara

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Alan German

Linux Mint Version 19.0 Beta (Tara) was released today. One of the new features is the Timeshift system backup option. By default, Update Manager issues a warning if Timeshift has not been activated. But, if you have no intention of … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming disk space on Android devices

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Alan German

My smartphone has been complaining lately of a lack of space. It has almost a Gigabyte free so I don’t really know why it thinks it has a problem but, nevertheless, I decided to see how to fix it.

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Customizing Mint’s login screen

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Alan German

One of the things I don’t like about the default login screen in Linux Mint Cinnamon Version 18.3 (Sylvia) is the availability of a guest session. Fortunately, it’s easy to disable this function:

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Synchronizing IMAP folders in K-@mail

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Alan German

As I noted in a previous posting about K@mail (Turn off notification sounds in K-@mail), “Dr. Google doesn’t seem to know much about this app. So, support options are pretty limited.” This turned out to be once again the case … Continue reading →

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