Recent content by Deadtroopers

Tah; it made no difference.

Made no difference. Thanks anywho!

Thanks, neither helped though. I'm using Xorg.

When I ask for help with a problem, I want help with that problem, not work rounds. If some piece of software keeps falling over, one of the first thing I do is look for an alternative. The last ting I'll do when I've exhausted the obvious is post a query; that is just etiquette.

Brave I've tried several times; an unusable piece of crap has been my experience every time. Opera likewise. I'm not looking for half-arsed work rounds but a solution to this particular problem. If you can't actually help, please don't reply

Just did that before you mentioned it, still there. This is a something to do with Firefox on Linux, doesn't happen with other browers or operating systems. I did try a couple of other browsers; but, ye gods, the grief of just setting them up.

M model keyboards FTW. I like the nostalgia and I like the noise! IBM Model F/M nerds should check out Wendell at Level 1 Tech's several videos and modelfkeyboards.com if you really want to use those keyboards again.

I had one typing class ever, half an hour?, thirty odd years ago and it was twelvish years before I saw a keyboard again. I could still do it! M model keyboards FTW. I like the nostalgia and I like the noise! If you haven't already Model F/M nerds should check out Wendell at Level 1 Tech's...

I laughed. Man after my own heart. :)

I don't know where this problem lies; this is a new install from a few months ago of Mint 21.1 but it has happened several times before and in other distros. After a couple of months half the control of video playing on YouTube will become non functional and I can't click ahead to get to where I...

Famous last words. I just rebooted and the problem is back. I've spent the last hour re-setting the password multiple times only to have the new password rejected as invalid. I'm down to entering a single letter as password and it is STILL rejected as invalid. This getting very silly.

One doesn't bin an expensive keyboard for trivialities that can be corrected. My problem is sorted; I've been educated by the experience and my fellows. Win-Win; matter closed.

You can consider this closed now. Thanks to everyone; I think I was being misled by a keyboard fault that had been already present for a while.

Thanks! That, after a dozen goes where it returned an error, took a very simple and insecure password. I suspect I have a key double-tapping intermittently and that it has been doing this for sometime before I dropped stuff on the keyboard and messed-up the login.

I can't do anything 'cos I can't log in to do anything, including take screenies. :) Your writing out what you thought I'd written for what it said at the command prompt prompted me to look again. Peering at the screen from tip-of-my-nose distance it does indeed say that! Further out ~ looks...