MX Linux Forum

The problem with tumbler is that it's not just causing the occasional inconvenience, it can actually take over the entire computer, devouring all of its resources to the point that the system becomes completely unresponsive! I've witnessed this myself with the latest Xubuntu 14.10. Some users brand ...

The setting "vlc cdda:///dev/cdrom" failed on me too. Actually VLC displayed this message when an audio CD was inserted: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'cdda:///dev/cdrom'. Check the log for details But no details were given in VLC's log (it can be viewed by clic...

For those who for some reason NEED to have thumbnails enabled, there's a little hack suggested by user "twolf" in Linux Mint's forums about a year ago. He produced a shell script (see code below) that can be made executable and copied to some convenient location in the $PATH (typically tha...

Geriatric PC (2002!), being amazingly "snappy" with MX-14.2 (used to run consecutive versions of *ubuntu for 7 years before that.) Everything worked OOTB, only Skype required the additional installation of Pulse Audio and pavucontrol (plus the well-known little hack for video.) $ inxi -F S...