Because of this issue, please be aware that in Mint 20 and newer releases, your encrypted home directory is no longer unmounted on logout. The move to systemd caused a regression in ecrypts which is responsible for mounting/unmounting encrypted home directories when you login and logout. Home directory encryptionīenchmarks have demonstrated that, in most cases, home directory encryption is slower than full disk encryption. Choose 'download' when asked and follow the instructions.įor more info, read Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions. 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'. You don't need these workarounds post-installation. Note: This issue only affects the live session. the RIGHT Ctrl key, no ALT) and back to tty7 with HOST+F7.Īnother workaround is to disable 'nested paging' (in the System -> Acceleration settings) and to increase the video memory to 128MB (in the Display settings). If the screen is garbled when launching Linux Mint in Virtualbox, switch to console with HOST+F1 (e.g. Do this by opening up the settings for your VM and select Display -> Graphics Controller. If the screen is black when launching Linux Mint in Virtualbox, change the VirtualBox graphics controller to 'VMSVGA'.

For more information on this or to re-enable it read. If the grub2 theme looks too small in your HiDPI monitor, install the 'grub2-theme-mint-2k' package. If you rely on lengthy operations to finish before shutdown, read /etc/systemd//50_nf and override the timeout value in /etc/systemd//60_nf.

įor your convenience, the shutdown timeout is reduced to 10s. If you are facing this issue, prepare a live USB using Rufus.įor more information about this issue read. The following Grub bug affects Linux Mint 21.

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