Questions Tagged With mint

fail to start graphical interface

agvares — Tue, 06 May 2014 16:55:37 -0400

Hi, I'm using Linux Mint 14 and have faced the following problem recently:

after removing and installing some of the software (torchat and LibreOffice to be exact) and rebooting I found myself not being able to log into my system.

first thing I noticed was simply a console line offering to enter my login and password, after that it greeted me with

bash: /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt: No such file or directory

all my attempts to run startx resulted in nothing but a black screen with an active mouse arrow

briefly serfing the net I've found that installing mdm could be a possible solution, however, after I did that, I've started logging into this very black screen immediately, skipping any time in console

so the only way to get to shell is to drop there using the recovery mode

when I try to launch startx there I get the following message

Fatal server error: Could not create lock file in /tmp/.tX0-lock
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority

also I can't remove or install anything using this shell due to blocking issues with /var/lib/dpkg/lock and being unable to write anything in /var/cache/apt/

I'd appreciate any suggestions about working this mess out. Thanks in advance

Packages sync between PCs

Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:50:16 -0400

I've many PC already uses Mint KDE 14. How can I sync installed packages between these PCs?

P.S. Ubuntu Software Center already has this feature but it's not working under Mint.

How take a screenshot of 1 screen when using two screens on Linux Mint ?

Srinivas Suresh — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:08:05 -0400

I am using a laptop and I've connected my monitor to it to "extend" my screen . Effectively my screen is now twice as wide. I want to take a screenshot of the second screen alone. Hitting print screen takes a vertically compressed horizontally elongated screenshot. as does the gnome screenshot capture tool . I tried to use the capture an area feature but that just warps the image so bad that it becomes useless. Can anyone suggest a good solution ?

I'm sorry if the question is n00b. I'm very new to Linux.

How do you disable menu items in KDE?

Ron — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:30:57 -0400

In Gnome 2, you could use the "Main Menu" applet ( aka "alacarte" ) and just uncheck any menu item / shortcut to an program which you didn't want displayed in the menu ( and thus it wasn't accessible to the user that way either )..... so my question is, how do you do the same think in KDE?

I have items showing up in the menu that I don't want to delete/remove, merely disable so they no longer show up in amy menu listing.

where is .bashrc in Linux Mint 11 [SOLVED]

kaykav — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:52:56 -0400

afternoon, Im using mint 11. Previous versions have a '.bashrc' file. This version doesn't. I would like to put some aliases or functions in .bashrc. I started a '.bash_aliases' file and it works . But where did the '.bashrc' file go to?