Mint 9 Discussion

Wait, you mean you can't get it back to normal by changing themes? That sucks. Good thing I didn't install Lucid.

 

I don't know if you can? I'm a Linux noob. I gave up on Ubuntu because of performance issues.

 

Huh. Well, I guess I have the LiveCD, so I could see if there's a way to leave the OSX layout. There probably is. But if everyone thinks Lucid is more sluggish, I'll go with Mint or stick with Jaunty.

 

Is there a way a way to find out if I have a Hibernation file active on my Mint partition and if so how do I go about deleting it?

 

Simpler change than you think.
How to move Ubuntu Lucid's 10.04 Gnome buttons to the right | Blog | TechPad.co.uk

You'd have to delete the swap partition. When you hibernate, memory gets written the swap partition. On wake, it gets read back.

 

How do I delete the swap file after the install?

Btw my swap file is only 350MB and it's never used.

 

It's all good, I'm running Mint 9 now. Only a couple problems with Compiz.

 

I think another reason why I like Mint so much is it reminds me of Mac Classic OS 9 as well as Windows XP.

In order to delete my Swap file will I have to do a reinstall?

 

Unless you really need that space back, just leave it as it is. You could turn swappiness way down if you're worried about wear and tear, but it's generally better to at least leave a little for swap regardless.

 

Hey, has anyone figured out how to enable raised (3D) windows in Compiz with Mint 9? It worked fine in Jaunty, but not in Mint. I checked the 'Raise on rotate' box in the 'Rotate cube' settings, but to no avail. Am I missing something? Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe the "simple" Compiz config thing is screwing it up.

 

Crazy to find this thread! I just installed Mint four days ago and am still learning. Seems awesome so far.

 

I'm glad you found this thread and I hope your enjoying Mint.

 

^^^ you're

(Sorry, but I have to do this or I won't be able to sleep tonight. I have issues.)

 

I'm looking for a program that's like Quicken. The closest i've come to is kmymoney. I went to this page and i'm staring at several different version and don't know which one will work with Mint 9 i386.

Ubuntu -- Package Search Results -- kmymoney2

I would really like to find something that is similar to:

1) Quickbooks

2) Quicken

I would also like to find a program that is similar to Microsoft Streets and Trips. I would prefer if it were an offline program.

 

Hey fellas I was reading up on WINE and so I went to the Mint "Software Manager" and installed WINE and WINE 1.2

I'm a little confused because when I click on the Menu icon I see Wine but all I have is Accessories-> Notepad, Browse C: Drive, Configure Wine, Uninstall Wine.

I went to the WineHQ WineHQ - Wine Binary Downloads website and it makes it sound like I should be able to select from the menu Wine File then go to the .exe file I want to install and viola it should install and work like it's a Windows program.

That's not happening because the Windows Virtual Desktop only appears when I select Configure Wine. Do I have the correct version and if so what am I doing wrong?

 

You should just be able to double click the exe or right click it and hit Open with>Wine.

As for kmymoney2, just install it from Software Manager.

 

Hey, so did anyone have any ideas on my Compiz problem?

If not, I've got a new one: why are there only 19 download servers in Software Sources to choose from, and none from the US of A? I can understand Mint having some specialized repos, but can't I download packages from the standard Lucid repos? I'm getting lousy package download speeds here, and I didn't have that problem with Jaunty (I had a couple fairly close servers available).

Thanks.

 

I thought I read months ago that Mint rolled out some new U.S. servers? I'm going over to my Mint machine now.....I'll read up on that....

 

Thanks, Zoid. I haven't seen any, and Linux updates have never been exactly blazing for me, so it's even worse when I don't have a good server selection.

As far as my question before that, I found a thread on the Mint forums that gave me the answer: you have to install the package compiz-fusion-plugins-extras. Then you can enable '3D Windows' and/or 'Animations Add-On,' which will show up as new items in the regular CCSM. Or you can check the no-longer-grayed-out boxes in the Simple Compiz manager to 'Enable 3D Windows' and 'Extra Animations.'

 

Something weird happened to me this morning, Mint 9 was locked on both panels and I can't figure out if it was an OS issue or a process that I could have shutdown.

I have my Vostro 1500 in powersave mode running at 800mhz and my Mint 9 partition (20GB) has no swap file but I do have 3GB of memory. When I check my ram usage via system monitor it only shows i'm using 550MB out of 3GB of ram.

The last day i've been in and out of Suspend mode and last night I installed Wine and (Wine 1.2) . This morning I had FF open watching the World Cup on the Internet. I click on the Gnome Menu button (lower panel) and the first Menu froze, then I clicked on the second Menu button (Advanced - upper panel I created) and it froze. If I clicked on the date and time in my lower panel nothing happened. But if I clicked on my desktop icon which happened to be a document I created it worked.

I didn't know what to do so I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete and rebooted. Everything is back to normal. Any ideas why this happened?

 

gnome-panel probably crashed. Easiest thing to do is kill the panels and restart them.

ctrl-alt-t to bring up a terminal and sudo killall gnome-panel. or input the command from an alt-f2 window. it should just come back up on its own. if it doesn't, sudo gnome-panel.

 

Thanks Woofer, I thought something had crashed but didn't know what. Is this common for the panels to crash? Could I have made the OS unstable by not creating a swap file partition?

 

Not sure why it happens, but it does. The OS itself sounds fine since the desktop and FF were fine. It's like explorer crashing in Windows - just kill explorer, restart it from a run command, and all is well. Odds are an applet froze up. Could check your logs to figure out what happened but that might be more trouble than it's worth if it's not a persistent problem.

 

It's not common....I wouldn't run a distro without a swap partition....just don't trust it that way generally, even with a lot of ram.

 

Go figure the time I run Mint 9 without a swap file is when something really weird happens.

 

That's why I kept pushing you to keep even a small swap file or partition. It's just a paging file with a different name that lets you hibernate. It's mostly just a set it and forget it thing. gnome-panel has some bugginess regardless of having a swap partition or not (bugzilla has a loooong list), but it's mostly stable.

 

Yeah, I think I've had gnome-panel crash on me maybe twice in all the time I've run Linux. But it's usually been because other things were crashing and locking up. It's been pretty stable for me.

And swap ... I've seen some swap usage on my conky display while running Jaunty, but it was kind of weird since I never saw my RAM max out. Nonetheless, it certainly doesn't hurt to have. I usually have a couple gigabytes and some odd megabytes after making my nice even OS and data partitions, and so I just throw that in as swap. Tidies things up. I've got 2.01 GB right now.

 

Thanks guys !

I reinstalled Mint 9 and selected a 500mb swap file just to have something there.

 

There was an easier way - start GPartEd, shrink an existing volume, create a partition of the size you want in swap file format, then right click and select the [use me as swap] option.

Or if you wanted a file, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#How do I add more swap?

For Ubuntu, but the instructions should still work.

 

Thanks Woofer I wasn't aware of that, noob here.

Is it run from the terminal because I don't see it in the menu?

edit: nvm I installed it via software manager.

 

GPartEd is a powerful tool, but be careful. There are few if any warning messages or pop-ups to warn you off of doing very bad things to your file system. It's not the fastest, but will do the vast majority of common and uncommon file system tasks, aside from natively creating ntfs partitions - you need to install either ntfs-3g or ntfsprogs to enable that, i forget which.

 

Pixelot did you get your Compiz problem resolved? I just discovered that Compiz was already installed and configured on my system, I even got my Cube already to go. I didn't even know that until I saw that in my Preferences menu.

 

Yes, exactly...I used gParted to clean up my Win 7 machine before reinstalling windows....need to be careful as it has no conscience....

PS: You can get download a gParted liveCD to boot from at download.com, among other places. It's a must have in my DVD/CD collection.

 

Thanks for remembering! See this post.

 

Thanks for reminding me LOL.

 

hey Rodknee, can you tell me the exact name of your weather applet and where I can find the CPU frequency scaler to download?

and can someone please explain to me how it works to install things in linux? I have downloaded a few things in tar.gz but I have no clue how to install them.
also what is the difference between software manager and package manager? I am so confused. and for each program there are a ton of different packages. :S

I understand that package manager is to access a repository, but many times in software manager when I click on install nothing happens. I see other people are having problems as well http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=33&sid=46fc92b877e43739f244be52c179c134

are there certain repositories that I need to add?

 

Move your mouse cursor to the panel you want to add it too, right click and scroll down to add the weather and freq scaler applet, very easy to do even for a noob like me.

 

Here you go. Either of the top two links will explain it. Or the fifth one down.

As for repositories, go to System > Administration > Software Sources. You should see a dialog box like so:



Check the boxes I have checked. Then go to Download from: and click the scroll-down menu. Click Other..., and then Select Best Server.

You should be all set.

 

You do the same as me....I always leave Backports turned on....If I have a backported package, I want it to update

 

Yup, and if I need to, I'll enable the unstable ones.

 

Mint 9 KDE RC released today

 

How does this compare to Mint 9 or this the same thing?

 

Just a different desktop environment. The KDE and LXDE versions are currently release candidates. The "main" Mint 9 is a stable release and uses gnome, rather than KDE, LXDE, or other desktop environment (xfce, fluxbox, openbox).

 

Have you tried both and which is better IYO? Which one is better for Noobs, KDE or Gnome?

 

Just as a practical example of swap use, today I opened a bunch of high-res images with GIMP for editing, while at the same time running a couple of word processors, MintUpdate, compiz, Gnome Do, Firefox, Java (Facebook uploader), streaming a Hulu video, nautilus open to my photography folder (processing thumbnails), conky and a music player. My RAM spiked to 94% and I went up to about 25% swap usage. If that hadn't been there, I would have seriously frozen things up.

 

for the enthusiasts--try UbuntuTweak; it has a number of tweaks that you can set using a friendly GUI, including installing apps from other ppa's. Complements the synaptic very well.

Let us know your experience with ubuntutweak.
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As I am a Linux beginner, take my opinions with the proverbial a grain of salt. My experience is limited to the main editions of Ubuntu and Mint, so I am Gnome-centric. I've not tried the KDE versions of either. Once the stable version is approved and released, I expect that Mint KDE will be as beginner-friendly as the Gnome version.

 

KDE and Gnome both have their loyalists, but KDE really screwed the pooch when they released KDE 4.0. Gnome is stuck in a development rut, and only gets incremental changes at best. However, it's mostly rock-solid and is pretty mature, even if bogged down by some old code. KDE revamped its code at 4.0 and has gotten much more stable with recent releases, but isn't quite as mature as Gnome is presently. However, it's picked up a solid set of nifty features that make it worth checking out for a few weeks. I don't think one is necessarily more user-friendly than the other - Gnome is just as much a pain to adapt to as KDE.

 

I can't find that in my software package.

and THANKS! to the other guys for the help.

does anybody know how to store the freq scaling monitor setting? I always have to reselect powersave at every reebot

 

Googled it:

More info here for multi-core scaling.
Ubuntu, CPU Scaling, Battery life and You

Note: The source is old, probably 2 years or so. Most of the articles on cpufreq were, so YMMV.