#ADDING DESKLETS MATE INSTALL#
#ADDING DESKLETS MATE UPDATE#
#ADDING DESKLETS MATE FULL#
#ADDING DESKLETS MATE WINDOWS#

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#ADDING DESKLETS MATE UPDATE#

The update story once again received major updates for version 18. Nearly 300 are currently available, allowing extensive customisation of the Cinnamon experience. A new website – is available for Spices: themes, applets, desklets and extensions for Cinnamon. Although primarily a bug fix and performance release, the new version adds a number of new features including a desktop grid multi-process improvements wildcard support in file search desktop actions in panel launcher additional screensaver config options better configuration of mice acceleration and sensitivity and manage-systemdunits and lightdm-settings support in system settings (important as Mint 18.2 moves to LightDM). What’s new in Cinnamon 3.4Ĭinnamon 3.4 was released in May this year and has now made its way to the latest Linux Mint release (it can also be installed on other distros). The new Mint-Y theme was first previewed with the ‘Sarah’ release, before being tuned and refined based on user feedback (of course, this isMint!). Looking back to Linux Mint’s roots, installation, use and stability are better than ever, providing a welcome experience for users making the leap from Windows. The underlying base was updated to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, while the Cinnamon and MATE desktops in particular were refined – following an evolutionary path rather than opting for radical change, providing some welcome stability in a world where, for Ubuntu in particular, turbulence now dominates as the distro makes the switch away from Unity. The first version 18.x release of Linux Mint was a significant milestone in the distribution’s life. Other historically included tools are mintMenu, a handy system-wide menu mintBackup, a backup tool mintUpload, an upload manager mintNanny, a basic parental control tool mintDesktop, a desktop config tool and mintWelcome, the floating welcome screen. mint files or packages from the Ubuntu and GetDeb repositories.

#ADDING DESKLETS MATE INSTALL#

The update manager is designed to prevent inexperienced users from installing updates that are unnecessary or require a certain level of technical knowledge to install by assigning updates a safety level (from 1 to 5), based on the stability and necessity of the update.Īlso included in MintTools is mintInstall, a software manager to install. Reliability is noteworthy thanks to a conservative approach to software updates and a unique Update Manager also known as ‘mintUpdate’, which is part of the ‘MintTools’ suite. This is a particularly useful tool as it requires no re-partitioning of the main system drive.Īs Linux Mint is based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides over 30,000 packages as well as one of the best software managers available. ‘Mint4win’ allows Linux Mint to be installed directly from Windows, just as the ‘Wubi’ equivalent does on Ubuntu.

#ADDING DESKLETS MATE WINDOWS#

Mint is often considered a good Linux distribution for new Windows converts, particularly when using the Cinnamon desktop environment, and this is further strengthened by the inclusion of Wine, the Windows compatibility layer, by default. A wide range of apps are included as standard in the spirit of being ready to go out of the box, including LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC and GIMP. Although contentious among some in the Linux community, it does provide for an optimum user experience.

#ADDING DESKLETS MATE FULL#

It’s bundled with full multimedia support including proprietary codecs for Flash, MP3 and DVD playback. Kernel versions 4.6, 4.8 and 4.10 are available directly from the Mint Update kernel management utility. Mint 18 introduced the new Mint-Y, Arcbased theme 18.2 adds further visual polish and new backgrounds.Ĭinnamon is updated to version 3.4, MATE to 1.18, KDE to Plasma 5.8.7, Xfce to 4.12. Mint 18.2 ditches MDM and uses LightDM as the display manager with support for X, Wayland and more.ġ8.2 includes the LightDM-powered, HiDPIready ‘Slick’ greeter, a fork of Unity greeter. Thank you!īluetooth support is much improved in 18.2 with the addition of the Blueberry UI. You can support the site directly via Paypal donations ☕.

TNR earns Amazon affiliate commissions from qualifying purchases.As a ready-to-use distro, Mint is second to none. The stated purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a ‘modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use’. The team ultimately chose to fork GNOME Shell to create Cinnamon, an alternate desktop environment that, while not requiring GNOME itself to be installed, stays true to the interface features the users liked in GNOME Shell. The team were initially unsure as to the future of the distro as the GNOME update did not align with Mint’s goals.

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