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Tag: Mint
Fixing the Firefox file dialogs in Linux Mint (17)
For a few months now, the file dialogs (open, save, etc) in Firefox on Linux Mint 17 KDE malfunctioned. Clicks didn't go through and/or were interpreted as drags. I finally figured out that it was caused by the Oxygen KDE theme.
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Keeping an unsupported Mint/Ubuntu installation ‘up-to-date’
When a Linux Mint release goes out of support, together with the Ubuntu release on which it is based, the Ubuntu packages become unavailable. This can be annoying for old fossils like me who stubbornly contue to use a release that has gone out of support, as I'm doing with Mint 14 (Nadia), based on Ubuntu 12.10, (Quantal Quetzal). (“Yeah, yeah; I'll upgrade soon; I promise.”) Luckily, the out-of-support packages remain available in a different location.
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