As you can see in that picture it says I should change the base_path to the "A1111" directory. The problem is that there is no A1111 directory in my computer.

The video is talking about installing and using comfyui in a windows environment. I'm in ilnux mint 22.1

I tried to do a search for A1111 but nothing comes up.

This is the video

It is at the 5 minute and 14 second mark where he talks about changing the path.

i can't figure out where to go from here. I tried doing a google search about a1111 (or automatic 1111) in a linux environment but i get no results that are helpful.

Can someone give me a little help please.

My understanding is that windows are moved withint a screen using Win+Arrow and across screens with Win+Shift+Arrow. I would like to unify this, to move windows around without pressing shift.

In Windows, it it possible to move a window to, e.g., the left edge of a screen with Win+Left. A subsequent Win+Left press then moves it to (the right edge of) the monitor to its left. I find this simpler and also substantially quicker. Is it possible to replicate this behavior?

Alternating pressing shift is rather burdensome for me, as my fingers are not as quick and flexible as they used to be, and neither is my brain, for these split-second tasks that happen a thousand times every day.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4879

IIRC, when I upgraded from 22 to 22.1, XPlayer, which I rather liked, disappeared from the repos (I've gotten used to using Celluloid at this point, but I'm getting old and don't deal well with changes). I should probably know this by now as a Mint user, but where can I see what's available when I upgrade so I know if I'm going to lose anything?

Hi all I'm hoping that you will be able to give some guidance to this complete Linux newbie.

Outside of doing some initial reading about how to create a bootable USB of Linux mint, I am a novice Linux user.

I have a Windows 10 computer and like many I am interested in finally biting the bullet and transitioning away from that big giant company, and my plan was to create a dual boot machine on my distinguishing windows machine while I transition. I have a clean separate hard drive that I was going to install Linux on, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I downloaded Linux mint 22.1 and tried a couple of ways of putting it on a USB drive with the understanding that I would boot from the USB drive and install onto the extra hard drive on the computer. But I haven't been successful.

At first I followed the instructions that I found online that told me to use etcher to flash the ISO onto the USB drive. That didn't seem to work as it only put a couple of folders on it and while it was recognized in BIOS, it wouldn't boot from it.

I saw somewhere else online that indicated there should be a bunch of different folders on the install media, and I noticed that if I were to mount the ISO as a CD Rom drive in Windows, I could see that it includes those files. So I had the bright idea of trying to copy and paste the mounted CD-ROM drive over on to the USB drive. However now the USB drive doesn't appear as a bootable device in the boot menu of BIOS. But when the he USB is plugged in, it just goes to a black screen to forever. I have to unplug the he USB to get back to Windows.

I did see somewhere online that suggested that I checked my BIOS UFEI and secure boot settings and they seem right? Secure boot is disabled and the UFEI settings are set to allow both legacy and UFCI boot. I'm not sure where to go from here. I also know about making sure the he bootable drive is first I'm the boot order, but the only time it appeared in the BIOS menu, it wasn't a bootable drive. What should I check next?

I recently got a Thinkpad Yoga, put Mint on it, all good. I love it. Only issue is, sometimes I like to fold the laptop and use it like a tablet when I'm not going to be doing much typing. But the touchscreen is hit or miss.

I've managed to get it working perfectly in Firefox where it behaves exactly like an Android tablet or iPad with swipes, taps, and long presses. But when I try it outside of Firefox, the behaviour is different. For example, a swipe acts like a click and drag with a mouse, rather than scrolling, which is the behaviour I want.

I'm a Linux noob, so pls don't be too harsh. Is there any universal way to make the touchscreen act like a tablet?

Hi guys, I recently installed Linux mint and like any other noob I had a lot of questions and problems right of the bat and I found that ChatGPT surprisingly gets most of them right on and I yet to see a totally wrong answer from it so yeah if you are on the fence about Linux give it a try but try to verify the answers you get it not gonna be 100% accurate.

Hi guys, as title says is it possible to just copy and paste my entire profile folders from Firefox in Windows to Linux or they are not compatible and I have to reconfigure from start. What's the best move here?

I've spent way too many hours trying to figure this out through forum posts.

As far as I could gather there was a configuration file that could be edited but now that configuration file is nowhere to be seen so I need to create that file but I'm not sure what to pun in that file.

The other problem is that all forum posts that talk about editing a configuration file is for something called Pulse and some forum posts mention that Mint doesn't use that anymore, so back to 0.

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UPDATE [AM 17 Sept. 2025]: Issue has been solved!

(I might at some point post the entire process with screenshots and stuff... But anyway,)

In short;

After @Auth suggested to just copy the contents of the inaccessible user's homedir to a new user, I logged in with tempuser and fast recalled that said homedir was similarly inaccessible as such, as I had selected the option to encrypt home directory during installation, and thus the files within were to other users unreachable without first decrypting them.

I followed @just_another_person's [advice/instructions] until they stopped replying, then managed to successfully mount the home directory after running through the other steps of the guide they referenced ([see:34365607/19080549,34365607/19187230]). I then realised that maybe I could just reverse all the steps I had taken since the user was last accessible, ([see:34365607/19187230]) and regain full access to the user, so I formulated a list of commands to reverse the steps, ([see:34365607/19233599]) checked for flaws, couldn't really find any, and just tried running the commands.

Anyway, it worked, and I can now log in to the user again and access all the files!

Much thanks to everyone who commented, and thanks again to @Auth, @just_another_person, @Wolf_Munroe, @Fizz and again (again) to @just_another_person for continuing to reply for so long!

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Hi fediverse,

I'm hoping someone can give me some advice on an issue that means I can't access the main user account on my Linux Mint (Cinnamon) operating system.

Context:

I'm using a dual boot setup of windows and mint on my laptop. I use mint (or used to, when I could access my user) for pretty much anything that doesn't require things* only my windows instance has. (*things such as support for video games that support windows but not linux, for example)

When creating my main user account, I made a mistake in the username. It was irritating enough for me to want to change it, and as doing so seemed like it should have been fine, I settled upon three guides and ended up (mostly?) just following this one:

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-change-username-on-ubuntu-debian.html

I cant remember all of what happened anymore, but I have the following screenshots, along with the stuff I do remember.

(note: red blocks represent the new username, blue blocks represent the old username)

At the used-by-process error, I first tried following the guide precisely, then hoped that "PID" was Process ID, and that the guide expected me to put the ID that usermod stated after "PID", and tried doing that.

Idk if that fvcked something up...

Then I guess I fixed that somehow, idk if I did so by restarting and logging in only as tempuser, or if I had already done that and fixed it some other way.

Anyway I meant to run each line of the command separately to avoid stuff going wrong, but accidentally did both at once. I hoped it'd be fine anyway.

Then stuff happened I guess.

Anyway,

I cant remember much more but I know that I tried to log back in as my main user account and I found out that:

1. The username had been successfully changed.
2. I could not log into my main user account.

Inputting the correct username and password was successful, and acted like it was logging me in as usual. Then after the usual black screen, it just throws me back to the login window.

This still happens.

I ran some web searches, followed some advice. All that I could find of relevance was mostly just people saying to check how much disk space you have left - and to not keep timeshift snapshots on the same drive as your OS.

(this is one such post, which I'm pretty sure is the only one I found that I definitely recognise from the previous searching: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/15revgg/cant_stay_logged_in_keeps_going_back_to_login/)

I did ctrl-alt-f1 and ran df -h, and deleted most of the timeshift snapshots I had (I think I had maybe 6 and deleted 4 or 5).

Here's the output of df -h that I think is from after I deleted the timeshifts:

Idk what to do, hope someone can advise.

(TL;DR: tried to change username on mint, now whenever I try to log in to the user it throws me back to the login window after the usual black screen. Hope this suffices for a summary...)

[(Edit [AM 06 Sept. 2025]: fixed typos, phrasing...)]

[(Edit [AM 17 Sept. 2025]: UPDATE [SOLVED])]

I'm thinking of moving my friend over to the wayland session but im wondering if its stable enough for daily use.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4876

i copied the exe file to my linux mint 22.1 system and added the game as a non steam game. it installed, but the game won't run

using steam i've tried proton 9.0-4 and also proton hotfix and proton 3.16-9 just for giggles I tried unchecking "force the use of a specific steam play compatibility tool"

when i click on the game in steam the green "play" button switches to a blue "stop" button but then just goes back to a green "play" button.

i'm thinking it's to old for steam to be able to run it. (maybe?)

any thoughts on another way to get this old as hell game to run?

edit: should say that the version of the game I am running is Flux . there are other versions like Flux LE and flux uplink and other versions. mine is just Flux (which was the full version of the game.)

I am trying to get away from Google and am looking for a decent cloud service that integrated well won't Linux, either by itself or by using rclone.

I tried Proton drive, but it is laggy and overall not very good.

I just need storage, nothing fancy. Self hosting is not an option tough, at this time.

Would any live streamers who use Mint recommend a decent budget capture card for a laptop? I'll be using it with my PS5.

Thank you in advance.

Hi guys, wanted to know what the best way a newbie like me learn to do disk management stuff (like adding devices, managing formats and partitions and so on) in Linux mint. gui is prefered but I'm willing to learn the terminal way too if it has benefits and more control. Thank you for your time

Hello! I am trying to install Mint on an Acer C720P Chromebook that previously was running GalliumOS.

I cannot for the life of me get the Linux Mint Live USB to recognize the internal eMMC storage so I can install to it.

I have an Arch live iso that has no issue seeing the device or formatting it, so I don't believe it's a BIOS or hardware issue.

I have tried both GPT and MBR, and I have also tried LMDE, all to no avail.

Please, are there any tips or things I can try to get Mint to recognize the eMMC? I want to install this to give to a friend and I really feel that Mint is a good choice for her if I can just get it to install. If it matters, the BIOS is https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/fwscript.html

Has anyone successfully set up a live boot of Linux Mint with persistence on a USB drive, similar to how Tails OS operates? I'm looking to save files and installed applications across reboots. If so, could you share your method or any guides you found helpful? Thanks!

Hi guys, wanted to know what is the replacement for adb and Fastboot tools to gain shell access to Android devices in Linux?

Hi guys, I'm preparing to migrate to Linux soon and I wanted to know what's the replacement for winscp program on linux. It's an gui app for running SCP connections and running ftp, SFTP server

Recent convert from Windows here, and for the most part everything has been smooth, but I've run into a brick wall with this one.

I write a lot and often like to use non-standard characters. On Windows I was using AutoHotKey to convert e.g. a ctrl-shift-hyphen into an em dash (—) or ctrl-e to type an é.

I haven't been able to find any good way to do this on Mint thus far. AutoHotKey doesn't seem to work, and the built-in Keyboard Shortcuts interface is incredibly clunky and slow (i.e. pasting the character maybe 2/3rds of the time, with noticeable delay).

I'd really like to be able to just seamlessly hit a hotkey and type a character like —/é. Does anyone have any suggestions for this? Thanks.

important: i'm as noob as a noob can be when it comes to linux. i have been using linux for a few months now bc i hate big tech, and i'm trying to learn gradually, but i know next to zero about coding and downloading stuff from github and stuff like that, please be considerate of that if anyone tries to answer me 🥹

i'm someone that likes downloading many memes and pics for communicating in messaging apps. however, when i try to attach a file to a conversation, my pictures are shown like this (a big list in which i have to click every picture one at a time to find the picture i want to attach), which is kind of annoying. does anybody know how to show the images in more of a gallery view?

Has anyone found a solution to Peacock not working on Linux? I am just starting the process of removing Google and Microsoft from my life so I am very new to Linux.