- Linux Mint 20.2 «Uma»
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- Cinnamon Edition
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- Xfce Edition
- Release notes
- Known issues
- Swap with home directory encryption
- Touchpad drivers
- Virtualbox
- Home directory encryption
- Guest sessions
- Scanner not detected
- Vertical band in scanned documents
- Samba
- Wine 4.0
- Upgrading Wine to version 4
- Sound and microphone issues
- DVD Playback with VLC
- Issues with KDE apps
- Force UEFI dialog hanging the installation
- Other issues
- Username and password in the live session
- Moving windows which don’t fit in the screen
- Installing multimedia codecs offline
- Booting with non-PAE CPUs
- Solving freezes during the boot sequence
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Linux Mint 20.2 «Uma»
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Cinnamon Edition
The most popular version of Linux Mint is the Cinnamon edition. Cinnamon is primarily developed for and by Linux Mint. It is slick, beautiful, and full of new features.
MATE Edition
Linux Mint is also involved in the development of MATE, a classic desktop environment which is the continuation of GNOME 2, Linux Mint’s default desktop between 2006 and 2011. Although it misses a few features and its development is slower than Cinnamon’s, MATE runs faster, uses fewer resources and is more stable than Cinnamon.
Xfce Edition
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment. It doesn’t support as many features as Cinnamon or MATE, but it’s extremely stable and very light on resource usage.
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Release notes
This is Linux Mint 19, codename Tara.
Linux Mint 19 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2023. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable.
Known issues
Swap with home directory encryption
There is an issue with home directory encryption that causes swap to be misconfigured during installation. To correct this, run the following two commands after logging in to your new Linux Mint 19 installation:
sudo sed -i ‘s#/target##’ /etc/crypttab
sudo sed -i ‘#^/swapfile#d’ /etc/fstab
Follow it up with this command:
sudo update-initramfs -u
Touchpad drivers
The default touchpad driver in this edition is «libinput» (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-libinput package).
If you experience problems with it, you can switch to another driver called «synaptics» (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package).
To know which driver is used by your input devices, run the following command:
grep -i «Using input driver» /var/log/Xorg.0.log
When both drivers are installed, «synaptics» takes priority.
To switch to the «synaptics» driver, install it with the command:
apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Then log out and log back in.
To go back to using «libinput», simply remove the «synaptics» driver:
apt remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Then log out and log back in.
Note: You can also try installing the «evdev» driver (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-evdev).
Virtualbox
If the screen is black when launching Linux Mint in Virtualbox, change the VirtualBox graphics controller to «VMSVGA». Do this by opening up the settings for your VM and select Display -> Graphics Controller.
If the screen is garbled when launching Linux Mint in Virtualbox, switch to console with HOST+F1 (e.g. the RIGHT Ctrl key, no ALT) and back to tty7 with HOST+F7.
Another workaround is to disable «nested paging» (in the System -> Acceleration settings) and to increase the video memory to 128MB (in the Display settings).
Note: This issue only affects the live session. You don’t need these workarounds post-installation.
To add support for shared folders, drag and drop, proper acceleration and display resolution in Virtualbox, click on the «Devices» menu of Virtualbox and choose «Insert Guest Additions CD Image». Choose «download» when asked and follow the instructions.
Home directory encryption
Benchmarks have demonstrated that, in most cases, home directory encryption is slower than full disk encryption.
The move to systemd caused a regression in ecrypts which is responsible for mounting/unmounting encrypted home directories when you login and logout. Because of this issue, please be aware that in Mint 19 and newer releases, your encrypted home directory is no longer unmounted on logout: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1734541.
Guest sessions
You can still enable guest sessions in the «Login Window» utility, but this option is now disabled by default.
Scanner not detected
A regression in libsane affects many scanners (Epson, Brother, Xerox, Samsung..etc).
The bug report contains various workarounds for the different branch of scanners.
Vertical band in scanned documents
Ubuntu 18.04 introduced another libsane regression:
Samba
Samba isn’t very stable in Ubuntu 18.04. Two issues in particular, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1827041 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1778322 make it very hard to browse Windows networks and connect to Windows shares.
To work around this issue, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the following lines under «workgroup = WORKGROUP», in the «[global]» section:
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
client max protocol = NT1
Save the file and reboot.
You should then be able to see the workgroup and the hosts in the network neighbourhood.
To connect to a share, use «Connect to Server. » from the «File» menu.
If you are trying to connect anonymously and it isn’t working, type «anonymous» in the username field and type a dummy password.
If you use Samba a lot, until these issues are resolved, we recommend you use Linux Mint 18.3 instead.
Wine 4.0
To install the stable version of WINE from WineHQ, open a terminal and type:
apt install —install-recommends wine-installer
Among other things, this will install wine-desktop-files, which adds menu entries for regedit, your C:\ drive and other items which are missing from upstream WINE.
Upgrading Wine to version 4
If you installed wine-stable 3.0 or wine-development 3.0 before wine 4.0 was added to the repositories, apply the updates to bring it up to version 4.0 and run the following command to install the missing packages:
apt install —install-recommends wine-installer
To clean up, run the following command to list all wine 3.0 packages:
dpkg -l | grep wine | grep «3\.»
These packages can be removed.
You can also reinstall PlayOnLinux if it was removed during the update.
Sound and microphone issues
If you’re facing issues with your microphone or your sound output, please install «pavucontrol».
This will add «PulseAudio Volume Control» to your menu. This application has more configuration options than the default volume control.
DVD Playback with VLC
If VLC does not find your DVD player, click on Media->Open Disc, and specify ‘/dev/sr0’ as the disc device.
Issues with KDE apps
If you’re experiencing issues with KDE apps (Okular, Gwenview, KStars..etc) run the following command:
apt install kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins
Force UEFI dialog hanging the installation
The issue occurs in EFI mode, when the HDD (or SSD) is new (without a partition table) and the installer is connected to the Internet.
To work around this problem, disable your Internet connection before launching the installer, or let the installer partition your drive automatically first (during a first install) and then install a second time with manual partitioning.
Other issues
Linux Mint 19.3 is based on Ubuntu 18.04. Make sure to read the Ubuntu release notes.
Username and password in the live session
In the live session, the username is «mint» and the password is empty (i.e. just press Enter if asked for a password).
Moving windows which don’t fit in the screen
If your screen resolution is too low, some windows might not fit in the screen.
While pressing the ALT key, you can grab any part of a window with the mouse and move it across the screen.
Installing multimedia codecs offline
To download the multimedia codecs into an installable archive:
- Boot from the Linux Mint ISO on a computer which is connected to the Internet
- Open a terminal and type «apt download mint-meta-codecs» (without the quotes)
- This creates a «mint-meta-codecs.tgz» archive
On computers which do not have an Internet access, you can decompress this archive and run ./install.sh (or alternatively «sudo dpkg -i *.deb») to install the multimedia codecs.
Booting with non-PAE CPUs
To boot Linux Mint on CPUs which do not officially support PAE (Pentium M processors for instance), please use the «Start Linux Mint with PAE forced» option from the boot menu.
Solving freezes during the boot sequence
Some graphics cards don’t work well with the open-source driver present in Linux Mint.
If Linux Mint freezes during boot time, use the «nomodeset» boot option as illustrated in the video below:
