Release notes

Known issues

Redshift

Mozilla retired its location service: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065.

This service was used by Geoclue to give Redshift the geographical coordinates of the computer and determine local sunset and sunrise times.

Redshift can still be installed and used in manual mode by entering these coordinates in its configuration files but it's no longer useful out of the box for casual u$

apt install redshift-gtk

The Linux Mint team will consider developing an alternative. In the meantime, Redshift is no longer part of the default software selection.

HWE kernel issues

To provide support for newer AMD processors, Linux Mint 22.2 ships HWE Kernel 6.14.

This kernel however has issues with:

• Virtualbox
• Old NVIDIA cards which use the 470 driver (this driver is no longer supported by NVIDIA and thus doesn't support newer kernels)

If you are affected by one of these issues, we recommend you install Linux Mint 22.1 instead, which ships with LTS kernel 6.8.

You can then perform an upgrade towards 22.2 without switching towards the HWE kernel.

Shutdown timeout

For your convenience, the shutdown timeout is reduced to 10s.

If you rely on lengthy operations to finish before shutdown, read /etc/systemd/system.conf.d/50_linuxmint.conf and override the timeout value in /etc/systemd/system.conf.d/60_custom.conf.

Virtualbox Display Settings

If you are testing Linux Mint in Virtualbox, make sure to apply the following settings.

Display Settings

To prevent black screens change the VirtualBox graphics controller to "VMSVGA". Do this by opening up the settings for your VM and select Display -> Screen.

Increase the video memory to 128MB.

Disable 3D acceleration. It leads to rendering issues with applications which use Webkit or GTK4.

To avoid garbled screens during the live session, enable Nested Paging in System -> Acceleration.

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". Choose "download" when asked and follow the instructions.

For more info, read Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions.

Xorg crash in virtual machines

Installing the multimedia codecs (mint-meta-codecs) results in the installation of gstreamer1.0-vaapi.

Playing multimedia content with gstreamer1.0-vaapi installed requires 3D acceleration. If acceleration isn't available, Xorg crashes and the user session is terminated: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1861609

If available, enabling 3D acceleration, solves this issue. Note however that 3D acceleration can lead to issues with Webkit and GTK4 (see the previous paragraph).

A simpler solution is to remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi:

apt remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi

Thinner Ubuntu fonts

A more modern slimmer version of the Ubuntu font family is now shipped as standard.

Going back to the old fonts is possible by downloading the old fonts package and refusing updates for it. For more information read https://askubuntu.com/questions/1465216/install-the-old-version-of-the-ubuntu-font.

Sound issues

Linux Mint moved to a new sound server called Pipewire.

To check which sound server is running, use the following command:

inxi -A

If you're unable to get the sound working, you can try to go back to the older sound server called PulseAudio.

apt purge pipewire pipewire-bin
systemctl enable --user pulseaudio
sudo reboot

Upstream bug report for choppy sound over HDMI: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025453

Grub2 theme in HiDPI

If the grub2 theme looks too small in your HiDPI monitor, install the "grub2-theme-mint-2k" package.

Snap Store

The Snap Store is disabled. For more information on this or to re-enable it read https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html.

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 20 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 enable guest sessions in the "Login Window" utility, but this option is now disabled by default.

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).

Wine

To install the complete version of WINE, open a terminal and type:

apt install 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.

Mouse Pointer theme in root, Qt and Flatpak applications

To modify the pointer theme for root and Qt applications you need to set it system-wide using the update-alternatives command:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

To get a Flatpak to use your pointer theme, install and run Flatseal. Select your Flatpak and give it permissions for 'xdg-data/icons:ro' in the section 'Other files'.

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.

NTFS volumes

Kernel 6.8 introduced a regression with NTFS volumes:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntfs-3g/+bug/2062972
• https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/issues/108

If you're unable to mount an NTFS volume and see 'volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!' in the dmesg output, launch Disks from the application menu, select your NTFS device, click the cog menu and choose "Repair Filesystem...".

ZFS removed

ZFS support was removed from the installer.

This feature wasn't used by many people and required a significant amount of work and maintenance to be properly tested and supported.

Other issues

Linux Mint 22.x is based on Ubuntu 24.04. Make sure to read the