Tag: PPA

How I installed Gnome Shell 3.8 on Linux Mint 14 x64.

This posting gives a link explaining how to install Gnome Shell 3.8 on Linux Mint 14 with a PPA. The Gnome Shell 3.8 desktop is very fast and it even though the desktop seems to behave a little differently when you activate the search option; the whole experience is faster…

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Adding the Gnome 2 MATE fork() to Ubuntu.

I asked on Facebook how to do this and I was given this solution. deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ lisa main upstream import sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mint-meta-mate This will install the MATE packages and allow you to remove the abominable Unity desktop.

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