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I’m using two keyboard layouts, German (QWERTZ) and German (neo).

I’d like to be able to switch between these two using the Super+Space shortcut. However, that only works for switching from QWERTZ to neo. When the current layout is neo, Super+Space does nothing.

On the other hand, when I’m in neo, Shift+Space does switch the layout, but it’s not supposed to.

How can I fix these two issues?

These are my keyboard settings from the system settings UI:

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-133-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4
    tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Does anyone know how I can fix this? For some reason there is a Firefox URL bar floating over the search bar. Trying to learn my way around Matrix/Element, and this is kind of getting in the way.

I spend a lot of time on macOS for work, and the muscle memory for option keys drives me crazy, especially when copy/pasting in a terminal on my Linux installs. This fixes that problem nicely.

I haven't seen it shared much so hopefully useful for someone else.

As the title says, I just started with linux mint and am falling in love with bash scripts 😍 Actually I'm not sure if it's considered a script, but I want to delete the last 2 files in all subfolders in a folder. So far I've (after great effort) got the terminal to list the files, but I want to delete them. Here is how I get them listed:

for f in *; do ls $f | tail -n 2; done

All their names come satisfyingly up in the terminal. Now what? I tried adding | xargs rm but that didn't delete them. I also tried something with find command but that didn't work either. Some folders have 3 items, so I want to delete #2 and 3. Some folders have 15 items so I want to delete #14 and 15. Folders are arranged by name, so it's always the last 2 that I want to delete.

It's frustrating to be sooooo clooooose, but also very fun. Any help is appreciated!

EDIT: Thanks for the awesome help guys! The next part of this is to move all the .html files into one folder (named "done"), prepending their name with an integer. So far I got:

n=1; for f in *; do find ./"$f" -type f | sort | xargs mv done/"$n$f"; n=$((n+1)); done

but that is... not really doing anything. The closest I have gotten so far is some error like

mv: Missing destination file operand

Any help is again appreciated!

I have been trying to get mint to install correctly on my system for the last couple days. After much messing around, trying different drives (new flash drive, new nvme) and stuff, I finally ran memtest and I'm getting lots of errors on both sticks, tested individually. It's 2x16 ddr4 3600; I lowered it to 1600 and still get lots of errors, ordered a new pair.

Here's my question - I have win10 on a separate drive. It boots fine and doesn't seem to have an issue with the ram at all. Is Linux more sensitive to memory problems?

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Cant seem to get my sound card to work with 5.1

Think i found a website where i can get my 5760x1080 display back.

Sadly the games on steam are limited! Not sure about epic and gog games yet tho.

Still gotta find software to run my fans, or at least a monitor. Need to find something for the little 3.5" display.

But its up and running!

First off, I have had a few different linux distro's over the years but I hardly know whats going on. Had a headless server, where again, I barely got it up and running.

Right now all but my main PC are running mint and I'm almost there on biting the bullet on moving my main to mint but I'm just not sure if it'll run everything, along with triple monitor setup. I was thinking of temple OS, but mint would probably be my choice.

Thoughts or suggestions?

Specs:

Ryzen 5 5600x

32gb 3200Mhz

RX6650XT

MSI X570

1Tb NVMe

110Gb SSD

Hi there, linux noob here. I have managed to install Mint 22, dual boot with win11. Everything seems to be working great, except one small problem that keeps me from using mint.
Whenever my computer is not playing a sound, after about 6 seconds, my external speakers will start playing static until a noise is played (a song or even just pressing vol +/-).
I've searched around a bit, but haven't found anything to fix it so far. I've looked on Mint forums (and asked questions but probably did it wrong cuz nobody responded). I used GPT a bit and I think that might have been a mistake. I timeshifted back to revert any changes cuz it's scary.
I ended up getting the powersave mode to turn off in PulseAudio, but that didn't fix it either.
Any suggestions or ideas would be tremendously appreciated. I kinda just gave up for a bit and am back on windows, which is quite unfortunate, I'm sure you'll agree.
I'm on a Nitro AN515-58, let me know if any more info would be helpful.
Edit: The speakers are AC powered.

Hi everyone,

I am in the midst of troubleshooting why my fans are not turning on despite the PC booting.

The motherboard is an MSI x670e gaming plus WiFi. The CPU cooler is a Noctua NH-D15 with two fans.

Things I have tried or will try so far…

1. Update bios version… (y) Didn’t fix anything.
2. After BIOS update, see if changing power setting to PCM turns the fans on. (n)

All the connections are slotted in properly, so I’m not sure what’s the matter with the system… Mint is already installed, so it’s weird that none of the fans turn on. Including the GPU.

This is my first Linux build out of the box… Should I be looking for any drivers in particular?

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x GPU: Radeon RX 7800

I am having an issue with my Lenovo T490 touchpad. It is very laggy and gets 'stuck' sometimes while moving the cursor around. As the touchpad worked fine with the pre installed windows 11, I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Googling the issue it was recommended to swap between libinput and synaptic drivers however either one has the issue. Mouse and track point work fine.
Is there anything else I can try to get the touchpad working?

Update: Mint's website doesn't actually seem to be using Adsense. It might be a mention that hasn't been removed from the privacy policy.

The Linux Mint website uses google Adsense to sell your browsing data to google so they can better track your preferences and deliver personalized ads…

They state they do it for the money. Pretty scammy from my opinion. They should remove all the google things from their website (including analytics) and use their own solution instead.

Source: https://www.linuxmint.com/privacy.php

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When I connect my Bluetooth headphones to my laptop it says: "Connecting to HP-laptop-14-xxx". It's kind of annoying. I set my hostname to "Laptop" but nothing changed.

Is there any side effect of adding it to steam as a non steam game?

For example on the windows side would I now need to do the same? I am going to be adding (or plan to add) guild wars 2 to steam as a non steam game in Linux. Will i have to do the same in windows? Are there any other down sides that I should be aware of?

I'll be running guild wars 2 through proton under steam.

Since I couldn't find a way to update my experimental Cinnamon wayland session, I'd like to give a try for CosmicDE since it works so good on Pop_OS! and Arch

In LMDE, I installed the .deb so I have the driver. In Manjaro, I'm just using a generic driver. In both cases, I can't select duplex printing.

If I log into the printer's control panel, 1-Sided Printing is Off.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18489384

After I started up my computer, having updated the last time I used it, going past the log in screen just shows the desktop background for a little bit, before a black screen with just a cursor. The Lock Screen still works if I shut the laptop lid or leave the computer enough, but the screen doesn’t seem to turn off properly when shutting the lid and most keyboard shortcuts don’t work, though I can still go to tty.

I tried updating. I tried reinstalling Cinnamon. That didn’t work, but installed lxde and selecting that at login worked, but Cinnamon still doesn’t.

I eventually found out that right clicking the black screen Cinnamon desktop still works, and I can get windows such as the terminal like that, but the windows won’t move or resize.

Probably just going to do a new install.

Windows has this builtin capability to make freeform screenshots via Windows-Shift-S. The image illustrates what I mean by freeform: Draw a polygon on screen and only capture that.

As far as I know, nothing on Linux provides this capability. Shutter is generally considered the most advanced screenshot app but it can only do "rectangular" areas.

Maybe I missed some app though?