Frequently asked questions

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First of all you need to know the model of your graphics card Nvidia.
To do this, enter and run in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) the following command:

lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA
or
sudo lshw -c video

I have a GeForce GT 630M

 
 The correct version of the driver for your video card you can find on the official site Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.ru/Download/index.aspx
 Fill in all necessary information about your video card and the system, and then click Search. As shown in the picture:
 
 Version best driver for my video card was defined as 331.67:
 
 Now install the driver
 Repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa provides the latest drivers. Run the following commands in the terminal that is connected to the repository and updates the batch base:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Now open Driver Manager, select the driver and install it.

 Alternative installation

sudo apt-get install nvidia-331

Restart your computer.

 After the new logon check the installed graphics driver utility NVIDIA X Server Settings
 or in the terminal:

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

 

Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop has a great feature of showing the mounted volumes in desktop. This ease your work for further accessing that mounted volumes. But sometimes you may not want some volume to show up on desktop. In that case, you may turn off that feature.
 From the Mint Menu, go to System Settings > Preferences > Desktop.
 Uncheck Show mounted volumes.
 You're done. In future, you won't see your mounted volumes on desktop.

Tiling mode, this innovation in Linux Mint 17 MATE with a window Manager Marco. Will not work if you use a window Manager Compiz.
 To activate/enable tiling mode, open the control Center - Windows - Location tab and enable the feature, as shown in the bottom picture:
 
 Now open two Windows of any application and drag one left, the other to the right and release to place them vertically until the middle of the screen next to each other. To bring a window to its normal state, grab the box at the top of the frame and sternite down.
 The disadvantage of this mode is that it is not yet provided by the use of hotkeys

Very detailed in article INSTALL NVIDIA-PRIME OF NVIDIA OPTIMUS INTO LINUX MINT 17

It so happens that you can't find the right package for Linux Mint, but on RedHat, CentOS or Fedora it is available as rpm package. No problem, you can rebuild in deb.
 Install required software:

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

1. Convert package from .rpm to .deb, run this:

alien name_of_your_package.rpm

After execution of this command may take some time and the package is converted to deb.

 2. Install the package.
 The easiest way to install the package, double-click on it
 Or install by command in the terminal:

dpkg -i name_of_your_package.deb

 

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For example, I will mount ext4 partition, but you can mount it as ntfs drive
 Create mount point. It's a folder where you find connected disk. Usually it's in /media/ or mnt/ folder or even where you want. For example:

sudo mkdir /media/C/

Check for disk UUID. IMO the best way to do it:

sudo lsblk -o NAME,LABEL,SIZE,FSTYPE,UUID

My output:

NAME   LABEL   SIZE FSTYPE UUID
sda          931,5G        
sda1       921,5G ext4   b73fa71c6-53b7-4759-816d-c89ccd76566
sda2          10G swap   f73e0859-cc8a-4a78-bfc4-f462afc0ffdd
sdb           55,9G        
sdb1        38,2G ext4   b6a2c725-5d14-4196-8efc-66b04db0e48a
sdb2        17,8G ext4   9f516666-72a7-4a07-bfe5-ecf5f2a9cc04

Now edit /etc/fstab.

sudo xed /etc/fstab

Add following line to the end of the file:

UUID=<your uuid> <your mount point> <file system> defaults 0 0

Should have something like this:

UUID=b73fa71c6-53b7-4759-816d-c89ccd76566 /media/C ext4 defaults 0 0

Manually mount from /etc/fstab by using:

sudo mount -a

or just restart your system.

Algorithm, as described in the answer above.
 Create a folder in your home directory, I called it "TV".
 Username replace your username

sudo mkdir /home/USERNAME/TV

Edit /etc/fstab

sudo xed /etc/fstab

 Add following line to the end of the file:

//IP/NETWORK_FOLDER/home/USERNAME/TV cifs username=USERNAMNE,password=112233,noperm,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,iocharset=utf8,_netdev 0 0

Should have something like this:

//192.168.1.1/TV/home/l4l/TV cifs username=l4l,password=112233,noperm,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,iocharset=utf8,_netdev 0 0

Manually mount from /etc/fstab by using:

sudo mount -a

or just restart your system.

You can of course delete the new version and install Firefox 28, but there is another option to stay on the new version of 29, with the return of the old interface, without losing enhanced the functionality of the browser, just by installing custom addon
Classic Theme Restorer (Customize Australis).

Read this article RUN SKYPE AT THE SAME TIME WITH TWO ACCOUNTS IN LINUX MINT

OpenSSH is a free version of a family of tools for remote management of computers and transfer files using the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH).
 Let's try to configure the ssh server on your home (or working) PC. So everywhere to have access to it.
 Read the article SSH SERVER FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF YOUR PC/SERVER

Almost all the articles that are in the Internet says about configuring VNC how about connecting to a new session. It does not suit me. I need to connect to my home PC that runs under Linux, and gives the torrents and all that. I don't need to create a new session, but need to get proper access to the current session.
 Read the article REMOTE DESKTOP VIA VNC FROM WINDOWS TO LINUX MINT

The aliases will help you set short words of commands to be run in a terminal. This will be very useful for replacing the long command or commands that are used frequently, such as update repositories (sudo apt-get update), upgrade (sudo apt-get upgrade), and other
 Read article AddAlias - new graphical tool for alias in Linux Mint

"Up" and "Down" Moving on history previously dialed in the console commands.
 "Tab" Automatic addition to executing command sequence of characters typed at the console.
Ctrl+U Delete the current command line.
Q The output from the program is running in full-screen console mode, display information (less, watch etc.).
Ctrl+Z Roll program in the background.
Ctrl+X To exit the program.
Ctrl+C Emergency exit from the running program.
Ctrl+D Exit user account.
Ctrl+Alt+Del Restart your computer.

Actually, it's very simple. Open your terminal and run the following command:

history -c

That's all. The story of your terminal has been cleared.

 If you are interested in how everything works - all your history is stored in the file ~/.bash_history - here the tilde and a slash denotes your home folder, so actually it is something like /home/username/.bash_history, and this file contains all the commands that you executed in the terminal. Of course, you could just edit this file and remove unnecessary line, but sometimes it is useful to clear the entire history.

For example, let's take two common commands that are performed in two steps:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now merge them into a single command as follows:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

As seen in the second case, all of the difference in combining commands in one is that these commands follow each other in unchanged after a space, two separating characters && (ampersand) and the newly space. I.e. in this case the double ampersand && at the command gives the terminal to understand that until will not be performed until the end of the previous command, not to run the following etc. usually used when in overall command commands are present with administrator rights, namely with sudo.

Read the article "Using archiver TAR in Linux Mint", that might help you.

Commands to reboot the system:
 "sudo reboot now"
 "sudo reboot"
 "sudo shutdown -r now"
 "sudo init 6"
 "sudo logout" (to end your current session)
Commands for system shutdown
 "sudo shutdown -h now"
 "sudo halt" (Not completely off. Requires power off manually)
 "sudo poweroff"
 "sudo init 0"
 "sudo telinit 0"
 "sudo shutdown -h hours:minutes & (scheduled shutdown)"
 "sudo shutdown -c (to cancel a scheduled shutdown)"

You can use Synaptic Pakage Manager.
 In Synaptic Pakage Manager search for "Mate". To find not installed applets, and select install.
I set myself through the terminal:
 1. MATE media utilities (GStreamer backend).

sudo apt-get install mate-media-gstreamer

2. Display readings from hardware sensors in your MATE panel (NVIDIA sensors). If you have an Nvidia graphics card

sudo apt-get install mate-sensors-applet-nvidia

3. Display readings from hardware sensors in your MATE panel (ATI sensors) If you have an Ati graphics card

sudo apt-get install mate-sensors-applet-ati

4. MATE Faenza Desktop icon theme

sudo apt-get install mate-icon-theme-faenza

5. Traffic monitor applet for MATE

sudo apt-get install mate-netspeed

6. Official themes for the MATE desktop

sudo apt-get install mate-themes

7. MATE panel indicator applet

sudo apt-get install mate-indicator-applet

8. Display readings from hardware sensors in your MATE panel

sudo apt-get install mate-sensors-applet

9. Allows to quickly share a folder from the Caja file manager

sudo apt-get install caja-share

10. This is a collection of desktop wallpapers created with MATE users in mind.

sudo apt-get install mate-backgrounds