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Maybe I need to add:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct

...to the end of my ~/.bashrc,and log out and in again?

I installed qt5ct, and tried to run it on the command line, but then I got the error message, in a GUI dialog, saying: "The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME environment variable is not set correctly" Then I ran: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct ...and then I could sucessfully launch it. But whatever ...

The following screenshot might look acceptable to you,if you have a large monitor (like 32"), but crushed into my 13" laptop HiDPI HD display, the font is very tiny: https://ebt.support/images/virtualbox_6_crap.png mod note: image changed to link, please be mindful of the offsite linked si...

OK, I installed VirtualBox 6 from the testing repo. This pulled in the virtualbox-qt package. Now my Virtualbox looks like garbage, as the font has become really small. Also, there is a very light font on a light background. Is there a package I can install to adjust the qt-specific desktop widget s...

Edit: Please see here for more info on how I got my Windows 10 Home VM to start automatically, and non-interactively at boot time, in Linux Mint 18.1: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=94338 Read the last post by me in this thread, in order to see how I got Virtualbox 6.0.10's in...

Although I'm technically a "newbie" (using MX since January/February 2019), my technical experience makes me a lot more tolerant to technical difficulties than a typical newbie, which is something experienced users often take for granted. Thanks for saying that. I agree it's not fair to p...

Fibogacci wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 5:36 am For windows resizing I use left Alt and right mouse button (for me it is quicker than Alt + F8).

Thanks! I see that the trick is to be nearest the edge that you want to move around, as you do that.

The window borders are really thin by default, like 1 pixel thin. So manually resizing windows can be annoying (by drag-n'-dropping an edge or corner of the window). If the window is not maximized, then a nice keyboard shortcut to automatically grab the lower right corner for resizing is Alt+F8 . Th...

vancouver wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:49 am Hello esbeeb,
we have something in common. I discovered RedHat in 1999

That's great! Are you from Vancouver, BC, Canada? I lived there 3 years myself...

vancouver wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:49 am I can no longer relate to Gnome.

Ditto.

I'm not convinced any Linux distro will be newbie friendly. Well, from my own experience, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Elementary OS were about as newbie-friendly as it gets. So many distros are competing fiercely these days to be as user-friendly as possible, that it's hard to even make a concise list....