• omns
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Topic: Revisiting LMDE

I wrote a little review of my recent adventures with LMDE. Make of it what you will smile

http://omnsproject.org/?p=1346

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Re: Revisiting LMDE

Hello omns.
I enjoyed reading your experiences with LMDE.  I recently bit the bullet and and decided to give the 64 bit  XFCE version a shot.  I  couldn't wait for the re-spin and wanted to compare it to #!.


After editing my sources to the latest testing,  I dove in.  I went GUI style too, but I first updated my new system using the original mint-update and only updated the the First level of filtering.  I think this gave me the "new look" from Mint 11 and also the new mint updater.   If I remember correctly, I don't recall having any errors.  I was thrilled at seeing the new Kernel and had no problems booting into it.  I added my NVidia driver via SMXI and also did the sudo passwd root thing. 

This was the 2nd time for me setting this up.  I totally borked the first time.

Overall,  my 64 bit LMDE XFCE looks really nice, but for me it is not as speedy as my 64 bit version of #!
I've got this hang up about when I right click.  If the menu doesn't open up immediately, I'm not too thrilled.  I'm also not crazy about the way the terminal opens and then shrinks and then I need to widen it to use it. 

All in all I'm looking forward to the next re-spin and I will try out the "more complete package" when it is out. 

Dave

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Re: Revisiting LMDE

Dave W. wrote:

I'm also not crazy about the way the terminal opens and then shrinks and then I need to widen it to use it.

When I installed mint xfce on a friends computer, I installed terminator afterwards and it not only solved the shrinking issue, but it made terminator the default terminal emulator without me having to make any additional changes.

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Re: Revisiting LMDE

mynis01 wrote:

When I installed mint xfce on a friends computer, I installed terminator afterwards and it not only solved the shrinking issue, but it made terminator the default terminal emulator without me having to make any additional changes.

Thanks!!

Last edited by Dave W. (2011-08-06 12:32:10)

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Re: Revisiting LMDE

So, your love affair with Unity was just a fling after all  lol

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Re: Revisiting LMDE

Have you tried the Atolm-gtk3 theme ?

http://thedeviantmars.deviantart.com/ar … -206663190

Oh, sorry it requires the equinox engine, on the LMDE forum someone modified it to remove that dependency

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p … ad#p457928

Last edited by jeffreyC (2011-08-06 18:45:16)

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Re: Revisiting LMDE

@jeffreyC Thank you for the link to the modified Atolm theme, it works well. I really dislike the blue highlights in this theme but I think it will make a nice base to develop something new smile

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@Omns  I may want to try your modification of the modified Atolm theme, or at least see a screenshot.

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On the next page of the thread I gave the link for there is a Minty mod of Atolm

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p … ad#p458161

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