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| 1425546 | 2016-09-14 03:23:00 | It seems to be that LibreOffice is installed with the correct language (based on locale I guess) but it doesn't actually install the correct dictionary. Go figure? :confused: | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425547 | 2016-09-14 03:58:00 | It seems to be that LibreOffice is installed with the correct language (based on locale I guess) but it doesn't actually install the correct dictionary. Go figure? :confused: Here was me thinking they couldn't be that silly. :groan: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425548 | 2016-09-14 04:56:00 | Ahmmm, has Linux been taken over by Microsoft? Just got some more updates and my Internet speed has fixed itself. :rolleyes: 7431 Honestly, this business of putting out endless Updates to fix the previous ones is absolute bloody nonsense. :mad: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425549 | 2016-09-14 21:55:00 | Well everything is running fine so far this morning so I thought I might install a couple of other programmes. What I am interested in for a start is an equivalent programme to Speccy which tells you all about the computer including software keys and an equivalent to Ccleaner to clean up all the junk files. There seems to be no shortage of both on Google so I thought I’d check with our resident experts to see if there are any favourites. :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425550 | 2016-09-14 23:51:00 | For specs I've always just done it from the command line: cat /proc/cpuinfo But something like GKrellM is probably what you're after, so if you apt-get install gkrellm or search for gkrellm from your distro's app store it'll do you well. Screenshot here: http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/ It's nice coz you can have it hover too, quite customizable, one of my favorite things about having a Linux Distro is gkrellm! :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1425551 | 2016-09-15 00:36:00 | This article shows the three main hardware information utilities www.webupd8.org As far as I know they don't list software keys. to manage these you open start menu/preferences then select keyboard then choose shortcuts tab. Instructions in this article on cleaning Mint safely. sites.google.com hope this helps |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1425552 | 2016-09-15 01:01:00 | It's nice coz you can have it hover too, quite customizable, one of my favorite things about having a Linux Distro is gkrellm! :D I absolutely agree with you about GKrellM. If you look at my previous screenshots of Kubuntu in this thread you can see that I have GKrellM running in the lower left corner of the screen. It's getting on in age now but it still does the job and looks nice with many themes available. Conky is a similar type of app, still being actively developed. It's more tricky to set up than GKrellM though. However, I think B.M. is meaning something different than GKrellM. The command line app called inxi gives comprehensive details of the hardware (try man inxi to get some more info on its use). Here in Kubuntu there is a gui app called KInfocenter which I think is more what B.M. was wanting. I'll fire up my Mint VirtualBox machine to see what is available in Mint. As for something like CCleaner, I used to use an app in Ubuntu which I can't remember the name of just now, I'll get back to you about that one. But, honestly you don't need to do much cleaning out of junk in Linux as it doesn't accumulate rubbish so much as Windows does. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425553 | 2016-09-15 01:14:00 | BleachBit was the app I was thinking of ... it's mentioned on the second page that Dave linked to. And it says that you shouldn't use it (I agree, it can be too aggressive and cause more harm than good. I haven't used it since my earliest days of using Ubuntu when I too thought such things were necessary in Linux ... they aren't). | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425554 | 2016-09-15 22:42:00 | Sorry to be so long getting back but I got another 3 updates early yesterday afternoon and promptly lost connection to the Internet . :rolleyes: Can’t work it out . The network showed up OK and worked fine on my Win 10 Laptop but couldn’t connect on the Mint machine . Restarting produced a message that my update repository couldn’t be found but that was the only clue . I tried connecting from the disk but that didn’t work either and I got the impression that the WiFi password was not being accepted . Yes I re-entered it numerous times but no luck . However, this morning I turn the machine on and away it goes as good as gold . Beats me . Anyway back to the job at hand . Well, I’ve tried all the suggestions but none are quite what I was after . As far as information goes I was looking for a Speccy or Balarc Advisor equivalent, but can’t seem to find one . Before you posted Rod I found and downloaded BleachBit but when I looked at what it might do I became gun-shy and never ran it . To me it looks like it’s for Very Advanced Users . I’ll follow the advice in the Link you posted Dave . ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425555 | 2016-09-15 23:16:00 | Not wanting to hijack this thread, but something that may be of interest. With earlier versions of windows dual booted with linux it was possible to access windows from linux. Not so with windows 10. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
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