Comments on: Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” KDE released!

By: inaki

inaki — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:07:08 +0000

Hello, I’ve installed Serena KDE. I’ve tried enabling the nvidia driver on a HDMI connected monitor but there’s a problem with the fonts (very small and random color changes in the application launcher). I’ve disabled the driver but the Nvidia Settings app is still auto-loading (it appears as a red icon on the system tray). I would also like to launch the Mint Update Manager manually. Where can I disable them? I can’t find where this auto-loading setting is.

By: AhabGreybeard

AhabGreybeard — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 07:58:28 +0000

@ 80 allen

I use MATE but as I understand it, in Cinamon, you drag an application icon from out of the main menu to a panel where you want it to be. (They are called panels and you can have more than one of them around the screen. You seem to want it on the system panel, where the menu and the winows list and notificatiopn icons are. Someone who uses Cinammon might be able to confirm this.

By: AnalogRocks

AnalogRocks — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:45:11 +0000

Installed Mint 18.1 KDE on a Lenovo W520 (c.2011) i7, 16gb with a DVD Multi III drive, (PN 45N7544).

When I switch CD/DVD’s the disk tittle doesn’t show for the new disk, just the last disk and the OS gets confused and won’t show the contents of the current disk. I have to close Dolphin, re-open and then re-read the optical disk. Sometimes more than once in order to see the new disk’s contents.

I ran the live DVD first so this didn’t show due to no disk swapping of course.

Liking the look of 18.1 KDE, also run 17.3 KDE on my old HP laptop.

Thanks guys!

By: allen

allen — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:07:55 +0000

How do i get System Monitor to show on Cinnamon Taskbar menu like on Windows where i can right click on Taskbar and click on Task Manager?

By: allen

allen — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:01:59 +0000

Installed Linux 18.1 Cinnamon on VirtualBox today, Updated Mint and installed drivers from Driver Manager and installed VirtualBox drivers. Everything went perfect. 🙂

I noticed in System Monitor, there was constant 1-20% CPU usage which turned out to be Cinnamon’s doing. I have changed nothing in Cinnamon. Cinnamon (Cinnamon–replace) in System Monitor. CPU usage also drops to 0% for a while then increases back to 20% and it repeats. If this is a bug in cinnamon desktop, it needs to be fixed.

1-20% constant CPU usage may be due to Mint being installed on VirtualBox but if same happens in actual installation of Mint, this can cause some performance issues with games and softwares that require lot of CPU and on slower PC, it can cause Mint to work slow.
CPU usage of Cinnamon should less than 5%.

By: Boggy

Boggy — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:49:41 +0000

So… I’ve been using Mint for quite some time
Some time ago I simply wrote a feedback about a new idea I had
And that was to have a function to disable the touchpad via a custom hotkey…
All I received was some flame and laugh, I quoute
” Why would you want to bog the system down with such feature?”
Recently I swithed to Elementary OS just to give it a whirl.
Apparently, Elementary OS has a feature like that.
I can turn my touhpad on and off easily now, wihout having to go to turn it off from the settings each time or to compile and do countless of sci-fi moves just to turn off a device.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you guys don’t listen at all.
But I,ve seen more ideas like this one being ignored.
Why?

By: Óvári

Óvári — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:47:35 +0000

R&D:
windows compatibility layer:
seemless wine integration
https://github.com/linuxmint/Roadmap

You may like to investigate the inclusion of any missing libraries in the default Linux Mint Cinnamon edition listed on “CrossOver missing library error messages”
https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/diag

Thank you

By: Óvári

Óvári — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:24:31 +0000

R&D:
windows compatibility layer:
seemless wine integration
https://github.com/linuxmint/Roadmap

Please add to the default Linux Mint Cinnamon 64-bit distribution the following 2 libraries:

[MissingLibOpencl]
“Level”=”Suggest”
“Title”=”Missing 32bit libOpenCL.so.1 library”
“Description”=”Provides GPU computation support to Windows applications.”

[MissingLibGphoto2Port]
“Level”=”Suggest”
“Title”=”Missing 32bit libgphoto2_port.so.10 library”
“Description”=”Lets Windows applications access digital cameras.”

Thank you

By: Cage

Cage — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:29:25 +0000

Gekko06, you better check with your carrier. Mine disabled USB unless you pay an extra fee. You’ll need to get an SD card to transfer files now. I had no problem until recently doing file transfers with USB then all of a sudden could not. Found that my carrier disabled it. So you can not blame the Distro if you carrier is responsible. Mint PLasma is finally coming to age and working fine on my laptop.

By: Óvári

Óvári — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 02:25:28 +0000

Suggestions:

Please add to the default Linux Mint Cinnamon distribution a PDF printer.
http://www.cups-pdf.de/welcome.shtml
http://jonmifsud.com/blog/print-to-pdf-with-ubuntu-linux/

A PDF printer will provide:

1. An out of the box workaround with “windows compatibility layer: seemless wine integration” until:
a) non-postscript printers work; and
b) Windows 32-bit programs can print on Linux Mint Cinnamon 64-bit operating systems

2. Programs that do not have a print to PDF option a way to print to PDF.

Thank you