Remove the icons from the Linux Mint MATE desktop. This post will tell you how to disable the desktop icons on the Linux Mint MATE desktop. I prefer to have the desktop this way as it is a little faster and better looking. Just go to Applications->System->Configuration Editor in the…
Read MoreI have been trying to get dual monitors working in Ubuntu 12.10 and I have not had much luck at all; using the Linux Mint 13 distribution I managed to get this working; I used the arandr utility to set up the dual monitor desktop and it worked perfectly. I…
Read MoreA look at the MATE desktop in Linux Mint 13. I am showing how to remove and restore icons on the desktop and changing themes and icons. This desktop is laid out just like the Gnome 2.32.2 desktop was in Ubuntu 8.10. I like this desktop far more than the…
Read MoreI have installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint 13 in Virtualbox to experiment with and I needed to install the guest additions to enable full desktop resolutions and many other features. I downloaded the guest additions ISO from here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/ and then added it to Virtualbox as a CDROM…
Read MoreIf you wish your Linux Mint MATE desktop to look like the Windows XP operating system from Redmond WA, then you only need to install these two themes into your ~/.themes folder and then select the XP Luna theme in the Preferences->Appearance window. I have my MATE desktop setup with…
Read MoreThe VLC media player has been updated on Linux Mint 13, I just ran sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and the new version of the VLC player was pushed out to me. The V4L part of the player has been fixed in the VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower release, you can now…
Read MoreNice Cinnamon themes for Linux Mint 13 Maya. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=147807 Eleganse-Elementary dark themes for Cinnamon. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mictlan+gnome+shell+%26+cinnamon+theme+?content=149542. Mictlan Gnome Shell and Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GoldieBluez?content=150586. GoldieBluez Gnome & Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GoldieBluez?content=150586. AnTaRtIkA Gnome Shell and Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Hacktivist+-+Cinnamon+Theme?content=148598. Hacktivist Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elementary+Style+-+Gnome-Shell%2BCinnamon?content=145727. Elementary styled Gnome Shell and Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Smooth+Purple+-+Cinnamon+Theme?content=148725. Smooth Purple Cinnamon theme.
Read MoreOn Slashdot they have a story about the fall of the Gnome desktop, the team is losing members and the other desktops such as KDE and Cinnamon are taking over. Just as the Unity desktop is the death of the Ubuntu distribution, the Gnome 3 desktop will be the straw…
Read MoreThe me-tv software for Linux Mint 13 Maya was not working for me, but I found out that if you download this tarball: https://launchpad.net/debian/+archive/primary/+files/me-tv_1.3.7.orig.tar.gz and install it by running the commands below. ./autogen.sh make make install./autogen.sh make make install Then the software will work. The new version 2.00 release is…
Read MoreThe new GNU Grub 2.00 has just been released with all new features and here is how to install it. Firstly, download the tarball from this mailing list post. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2012-06/msg00093.html. After unpacking the tarball, cd into the folder and type: ./configure –prefix=/usr./configure –prefix=/usr to run the configure script. You will…
Read MoreThe ubuntu-tweak utility for Ubuntu is also available for Linux Mint 13. This utility allows the user to configure the Unity desktop. I installed the Myunity application on Linux Mint but it would not run as it detected that I was not running the Ubuntu distribution. The Unity desktop supplied…
Read MoreNice Linux Mint 13 wallpaper I just created. Old abandoned house on a hill.
Read MoreThe rename command for the Linux shell allows you to rename a directory full of files en-mass. This first example, based on the examples in the rename manual page. Firstly renaming a directory full of xhtml files to the html extension. rename ‘s/\.xhtml$/.html/’ *.xhtmlrename ‘s/\.xhtml$/.html/’ *.xhtml And renaming a folder…
Read MoreUsing the text console in Linux Mint is very easy. Access it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. Get back to Xorg by pressing Alt-F9. Some Linux distributions use the virtual terminal tty7 as the one reserved for Xorg, but this can vary. You may open many virtual consoles by pressing Alt-2, Alt-3,…
Read Morehttps://linuxtyper.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/what-window-manager-should-i-use-part-5-icewm-and-conclusion/. There is an interesting discussion in five parts that is discussing what window manager is the best for your Linux desktop. I am using KDE 4.8.3 with the Metacity window manager. I got sick of using Compiz and I prefer the Metacity window manager instead. KDE 4.8.3 on Linux…
Read MoreThe installation of a vanilla kernel on Linux Mint 13 is very simple. Once you have downloaded the kernel tarball from kernel.org you will have to unpack the tarball: tar jxvf linux-3.4-rc2.tar.bz2tar jxvf linux-3.4-rc2.tar.bz2 Then enter the directory thus created and run make mrproper to make sure the kernel source…
Read MoreThe me-tv package distributed with the Linux Mint 13 maya distribution is not working at the moment, the client-server model they have adopted is quite a change, but when I executed it from a terminal window, I got the error that the database format was not compatible and the me-tv-server…
Read MoreThis is the MATE Gnome 2 desktop on Linux Mint 13. Many themes are available for the MATE Desktop Environment on the art.gnome.org/themes website. The GTK themes may be found here: http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2. The eXperience theme is a Windows XP styled theme for GTK, I think it is cool to have…
Read MoreThe Windows 8 reviews are becoming more and and more unfavorable. The interface is being dumbed down and it will end up becoming a joke in the computing world. The Linux Mint 13 distribution has been released and the 64bit MATE release of this distribution is looking very good indeed….
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