7-3 Fixing Mint Issues and Advanced Mint

Table of Contents

How to fix issues with Mint PCs...............................................................................................................1

If the copy of Mint is old/unsupported.......................................................................................................1

If a user forgets their Mint password.........................................................................................................2

Small Weird Issues.....................................................................................................................................3

Mint's taskbar is corrupted!...................................................................................................................3

Testing a Webcam in Linux...................................................................................................................4

Music in Mint........................................................................................................................................4

Changing Window Themes...................................................................................................................4

Secondary hdd installed but only accessible with root pw?..................................................................4

Setting up your machine so it auto-mounts a secondary internal hard drive........................................4

Editing grub boot menu.........................................................................................................................5

How to adjust almost any preference graphically.................................................................................5

Disable Printscreen Autoattack.............................................................................................................5

Where's the font folder in Mint?............................................................................................................5

Recommendations for a paint program.................................................................................................5

Issues usually only seen on older versions of Mint....................................................................................5

Connecting an iPhone to retrieve photos...............................................................................................5

Symptom: SKYPE for Linux can't run..................................................................................................6

Advanced Mint Concepts...........................................................................................................................6

Keyboard Shortcuts in Mint..................................................................................................................6

What is a Tarball?..................................................................................................................................6

What is ACPI?.......................................................................................................................................6

Chain terminal commands together by using semicolon.......................................................................7

Finding Specs of a Machine..................................................................................................................7

USB Device Issues................................................................................................................................7

Finding Out Fan Speed..........................................................................................................................8

Casting to media things via Wifi from your Linux PC..........................................................................8

Cloning an Entire Hard Drive using dd or ddrescue.............................................................................8

INSTALLING a refined app store.........................................................................................................9

Manually creating a usb boot disk from an ISO file.............................................................................9

Dual Booting.........................................................................................................................................9

Unlocking a "wholedrive encrypted" drive on your mint machine.......................................................9

Want to see a command-line version of Disk Utility?...........................................................................9

Getting some insight from the command line output..........................................................................10