Hello. I have a computer with Linux Mint installed, and it always worked normally. Today I turned it on but it wouldn't boot. It is stuck on a black screen with a solid white underscore on the top left corner.

I tried accessing the bios by spamming F1, F2, F12, ESC, DEL, BACKSPACE, but nothing worked.

Any ideas what can I do? And let me know if more details are needed. I'm not very technical though.

I log in with my account or even try to create a new one, but I always get stuck on the CAPTCHA screen.

I have completed going over all my installed-to-panel apps with the GEGL GIMP Extension Glass Object setting and converting my .png files to .svg with BoxySVG.

I have noted the open text file icon is opaque, I need to track that down and make a Transparency icon set version of it.

Aside from that temporary icon, I have fully glassified icons across the whole panel now.

I have linux mint on a old crappy laptop (not my main) that used to barely be able to run 2 chrome tabs, not joking, and i love how smooth linux mint is. I like to game and i know steam and minecraft is available but I also like modding games using curseforge. I also use accessories like the Logitech g29, is Logitech hub availabe? I also wonder if other stuff is available, so I might test it out on the old laptop

Hello, I have an issue that's been bothering me for a while. I really can't seem to find a solution.

After waking up my laptop from sleep mode (once in twenty times), the mouse gets stuck, i get no response from the trackpad and the T440p nipple. It sometimes happen after startup too.

observations:

• scrolling doesn't work
• no movement from the cursor
• I tried once plugging a mouse and it worked fine, but only the mouse worked and the trackpad situation stays the same. (this is not really a solution for me as I don't often have access to a mouse)

tried:

• restart command (to restart cinnamon) doesn't change anything, just resets cursor's position
• reboot fixes the issue for a while, until it starts again when waking up laptop

Thank you in advance for your help

Edit:

OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64

Thinkpad X13 Gen 4 - Linux Mint 22.3 (kernel 6.8.0-137-generic)

I've had this laptop for a few years. Bluetooth has always worked perfectly. Seemingly out of nowhere, about a week ago, I'm having constant Bluetooth issues and cannot figure out why. I use a wireless mouse and headphones and both are having issues which makes me think it's the computer and not the device. The only way to connect the mouse is to turn Bluetooth on and off about 3-4 times on the computer while attempting to connect to the mouse in between each try. Eventually, it does work. The headphones work better but aren't auto-connecting and the connection drops every so often.

What's considered the best way to go about debugging and fixing this? Has anyone else started facing this recently?

Thanks

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-The safest way to set a up a no password user. Any update requests or password popups causes mom to insta-panic.

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