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Linux was working fine and I was getting the hang of it, then I obviously did something wrong because now when I move the cursor the desktop background moves too, a couple of inches in any direction that I move the cursor, as if the desktop is too big to fit on screen and therefore moves around in order to fit. I tried a "roll-back" and although I have several roll-backs on file I can't figure out how to apply them or 'mount' them as I believe it's called. (I can't figure out a lot of the jargon)
I've no idea what a DM is, and the rollbacks were listed in my System Snapshots but I don't know how to apply them, sorry, very limited knowledge in that area
Can you tell me how much to paint my truck ? It's a Ford
Sorry for the Debian kinda response(not really)
C'mon man. Whatcha running ?
Laptop ?
Mac ?
Ubuntu ? What flavor ? Mint ? Pops? XFCE ?
Oops, sorry, my operating system is Mint 19 Cinnamon 64 on a desktop. Next I'll try the code which teckk suggests, back shortly. Oh and the graphics card is an MSI Geforce GTX 750ti, Windows runs fine and so did Linux until I obviously did something wrong. (I've never used code before, as I said I'm a total newbie)
I suspect what happened is you enabled a special usability feature that scrolls the whole desktop. What that might be I can't say since I don't use Cinnamon. You might find a way to toggle this behavior off via a right click menu on an open area of the desktop, or from a desktop settings function in Cinnamon's main menu.
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I suspect what happened is you enabled a special usability feature that scrolls the whole desktop.
Agreed. I'm thinking it might be a sort of "zoom/magnify desktop" effect that the OP has accidentally turned on? KDE has this desktop effect but I had trouble getting it to work until I redefined the zoom in/out keys---Cinnamon might make this effect easier to trigger. When zoomed, my desktop behaves the way the OP described.
Thanks mrmazda and rnturn, that was the problem, I'd messed with the zoom settings. Shame I only found out after I'd formatted the disk and installed a more recent version of Ubuntu, meaning I had to reinstall all my favourite programmes. Linux is fun but it's a steep learning curve and maybe I'm a slow learner. Regards, Mike
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Far less so for persons new to computers. If a person has never used a computer Linux will generally be easier but if someone has been usi g some other OS like windows, they are very different in a number of ways and the person needs to first 'unlearn' the windows ways and then learn Linux. Most of us have been in that positiion. Learning Linux just requires the ability to read and the willingness to put in the time. Good luck with it.
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