Mint Application Launcher Menu question ...

2020-05-24 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
As you can see in this image link: https://upquick.com/temp/gdoclink.jpg On my Linux Mint Application Launcher Menu there is a link for: "temp - Google Docs" I don't know how that link got there, but I would like to know how to add an additional link to open a second or different google

Synaptic question re Firefox

2020-05-24 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
On my Linux Mint system (which is up to date), synaptic shows Firefox 66.0.3 as the latest version, as shown in this link image: https://upquick.com/temp/ffversion.jpg But as you can also see in that link image, when I open a google document with Firefox, I see the message that says "This version

Which audio/video formats are best and why?

2020-05-12 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
Please help ... After searching the 'net for information about which audio and video formats are best, and why, I am more confused than ever. On my system, I came across some old audio files with the file-name suffix .mid but I could not get those files to play with vlc, smplayer, amarok, or

Re: OT: How to make this simple html menu work?

2020-05-09 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
Perhaps I might ask the question a different way: Is there a way to invoke or "exec" 'vlc' from within an html menu? In other words, from the commandline, I can use: vlc splash.mp4 and the video displays fine. Surely there must be some simple way to execute that from within an html " Thanks

Re: OT: How to make this simple html menu work?

2020-05-09 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
your question: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18246053/how-can-i-create-a-link-to-a > -local-file-on-a-locally-run-web-page/18246357 > > Brian Cluff --- > On 5/8/20 11:14 PM, Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >> How can I get the simple html menu >> (exampl

OT: How to make this simple html menu work?

2020-05-09 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
How can I get the simple html menu (example code shown below) work to view mp4 videos from a menu link on my local computer in the same way that I can view jpg images (and when all the same files are uploaded as at this link: https://upquick.com/viewpix/ Below is the simple code example: Click

Re: wine temp files question ... Thanis!

2020-04-26 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
Thanks Bob ... That is a very helpful response. -- April 24, 2020 at 8:22 pm, Bob Elzer wrote: > The fact that the name of the directory is temp means you > can delete it. I wouldn't give the files a second thought. > I would try and figure out which program is leaving them. > If it

Opening a google doc file from command line ...

2020-04-26 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
When I use the following string (1) to open a google doc file from the command line, it works fine, but gives the ERROR message quoted (2) second below: (1) google-chrome --app --new-window https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CtuZyh-vXIvOk4J8sCLFpKTKHUtw4j5m_UqaPMpIdbM/edit (2)

Re: wine temp files question ...

2020-04-24 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
Still hoping for an answer for this: Subject: Question re .wine Temp files ... Date:Sun, April 12, 2020 12:01 pm To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org I just discovered a thousand or so huge .tmp files in a /hme/joe/.wine/drive_c/Users/joe/Temp subdirectory dating back to 2017 and I have

Question re .wine Temp files ...

2020-04-12 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
I just discovered a thousand or so huge .tmp files in a /hme/joe/.wine/drive_c/Users/joe/Temp subdirectory dating back to 2017 and I have no idea what is in those files. most are 1 to 3 megabyte each. The most recent are 30 files from April 6, 2020 over a span of about 10 minutes, but none since