Just want to bring your to your notice for the future, a bug if you can call it that, that I've had with every version I've used. I use my Hi-Def TV as a computer monitor in a small apartment and it's set to the highest graphic setting which makes text hard to read, so I have set Linux Mint to ...

I'm having the same problem as above and I have done everything listed above but the only difference is I have Linux Mint installed with a ZFS file system attached to /Server and everything runs from that drive. ie. Downloads, Picture, Videos ...... everything has been assigned to /Server/Download ...