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Thanks, Eadwine Rose! It now works.

I would like some suggestions for how to get gnome-calculator working again.

For me gnome-calculator used to work just fine, but for the past few weeks (or couple of months?) it immediately freezes upon trying to run it. It is non-responsive to clicking anywhere in its window and you can't enter ...

CharlesV wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:16 pm Basically we are creating a new config WITH settings and then turning them off.

Thanks!

Now, go back in and change the settings to Never if you dont want it to sleep, etc etc..
Sorry, this old man needs some clarification. Go back in where? The Power Manager? Which tab (System, Display or both)?


testing - you might want to set the "15 min" as mentioned above to say 5 min and see ...

I have everything on one 500GB SSD and a data folder with all my data in various folders (Desktop, Business, Non-Business and then lower-level folders by topic). So I do not use the default MX structure.

Do you mean "and a data partition with all my data"? If so that should simplify the detailed ...

Sorry, I was correcting the link when you posted. Debian Backport is behind on gparted, too. I am not saying that newer is better. Just that 1.7.0 is the latest and there is no 3.6.

3.6? Latest version of gparted is 1.7.0

Edit: link changed to gparted (non-live).

On 24 Jul 2020, @fehlix wrote up a cool way of installing MX on an external USB drive so that it will boot no matter if running EFI firmware or from BIOS.


Ah, so it only matters how the USB drive is created/formatted? Ye olde Samsung RF711 here does have UEFI boot but not enabled. I think I ...

On 24 Jul 2020, @fehlix wrote up a cool way of installing MX on an external USB drive so that it will boot no matter if running UEFI firmware or from BIOS.

Menu > Settings Manager > Desktop Icons tab > Appearance
or
Right click on the desktop > Desktop Settings... > Desktop Icons tab > Appearance

Then change Icon size, Font size, etc.