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Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click

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On 1/29/17, 1:41 PM, in article D4B3A192.8C5A2%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com,
"Snit" <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> My wife is now using Mint Cinnamon. Or trying to anyway. Good grief.
> 
> The machine is an older Mac. OK. But the backlighting is not what it once
> was. On OS X we just set the color profile to have a different gamma and it
> was very usable. On Mint Cinnamon -- darks are very dark and hard to use,
> even at full brightness.
> 
> Then she went to print something from Chrome (the herd will laugh -- oh my
> it was a recipe!). Failed. Why? Said the filter failed. Did not even try to
> figure out what that means but might later. I tried to print from the text
> editor. Worked fine.
> 
> So I saved the printout as a PDF to the desktop, opened it with ImageMagic
> (the default -- or maybe I set that before? Do not recall... ) and it
> printed. Stupid that it did not work from Chrome, but a good work around
> would be PDF Services! But, of course, no such thing on her system.
> 
> Anyway, when I opened the file in ImageMagic there as no menu. OK, so I
> right clicked (well, she has the computer set to be left handed, so really
> left click... but contextual menu click). The menu came up.
> 
> But as soon as I let go the menu went away. I have to click and HOLD the
> menu to get it to stay. This is the type nonsense I noted in some programs
> years ago and TomB told me that it was from the mouse driver on my VM. I did
> not think that was the case -- worked in most areas -- but took his word.
> 
> Turns out, nope, just happens when running Linux.
> 
> Anyway, once we printed we realized the printout was only the first page and
> the spacing messed up -- spaces between words missing! So completely
> unusable. 
> 
> She just emailed the URL to herself and then printed from a competing
> system. I will fight with her system later, but this is a very hard sale to
> make to my wife. She just wants a system that works... the one she has does
> not.

Sorry -- tried to stop this message before it was sent... though I had. See
my other thread for a video with more details.

-- 
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use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 13:41 -0700
  Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 15:07 -0700
  Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 10:10 -0800
    Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 11:41 -0700
      Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 11:01 -0800
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-01-30 20:38 +0100
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:09 -0700
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 12:38 -0700
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-30 14:15 -0600
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:23 -0700
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:53 -0700
              Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 14:19 -0800
                Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 15:25 -0700
                Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click [SOLVED!] Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 16:24 -0700
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 12:15 -0800
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:22 -0700
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 12:22 -0800
              Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:51 -0700
      Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 11:43 -0800
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:12 -0700

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