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Linux Mint 17 KDE Released
sfcrazy writes The Linux Mint team has announced the release of Linux Mint 17 KDE codenamed Qiana. It's based on KDE Software Compilation 4.13.0. There are notable improvements in Mint Display Manager (MDM). The multi-monitor display has improved and it allows a user to “configure which of the monitors should be used as the primary monitory by MDM.” Users can also define a background color or a background picture no matter what greeter they are using.
I only just installed Kubuntu 14.04 over the weekend. Can't be arsed to go through all that again.
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A greeter is an old or mentally retarded person that Walmart positions by the store entrance whose job is ostensibly to greet patrons as the enter, but is really looking for people who may be trying to leave with merchandise they have not payed for. Not to be confused with a breeder, who is a non-homosexual person.
The main feature improvment I'd like to see on MDM would be to suck less power when it's idle. Seems in a previous version it was constantly pounding on the CPU when idle. http://forums.linuxmint.com/vi...
I ditched Linux Mint as an option for my clients when I discovered that major updates required a complete, clean re-install. I switched to Xubuntu and have been perfectly happy. Since kicking Mint to the curb I haven't paid much close attention. Is this still the case with major version upgrades?
It's not cynicism, I'm really curious why background color/picture is being listed as a feature at all. It's one of the first few basic GUI items that should be working. It's like telling me that, at last, the pointer really follows your mouse movements or that USB flash drives are finally working properly.
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I haven't RTFA, but the 'greeter' is basically the login screen. I am guessing that certain non-default greeters caused issues with setting background pictures. As someone who usually logs in to tty1 and simply runs startx to get a GUI, I haven't much experience with or use for greeters...
It's about customizing the login window, simply by clicking around in a GUI. In the previous version, you can select between two variants baked by the devs.
Under Windows, you can't do anything about it (except perhaps enabling NT4-style login) and under OSX I don't know.
In older or other distros it would be a matter of editing /etc/xwurgdm/shitllist.conf to load a new WWTK theme with a modified XHTSGML file that points to /usr/share/pixmaps/242434/uglyflower.xpm instead of /usr/share/pixmaps/242434/nerdy_background.xpm
A greeter is called Login screen on MS Windows. How do you change the background or graphics style in Windows Login screen without third-party tools or using regedit? Can you change the software behind the Login screen to get different features?
a greeter (or a "thingdm") is good for auto-login, so I never see it except in rare circumstances like trying a random old window manager or really needing to log out (if ssh localhost doesn't cut it lol)
A shit one like slim or lxdm can be used if you care about precious footprint, with lightdm more modern but funnily a lot uglier when used raw.
I remember trying autogin on tty1 but it's semi-hackish and you have to google for it.
I think I'd like best to have both autologin on tty1 or tty1-4 and autologin on a graphical session.
You could be het & not be a breeder, like if you're a freemartin.
When I used Fedora 20 KDE, installing updates was really weird. It worked, but the notification system was filled with a couple of weird gauges which never changed their state when the updates were installed. I was told in Slashdot that it is a distro that is not properly configured for KDE, which would mean that there were severe quality assurance problem. So is Linux Mint KDE properly configured and does the notification system make sense when installing updates?
KDE has always been my favorite environment. The consistency of things like hotkeys across apps and the ease with which they are changed is awesome. Dolphin and Konsole meet my file manager and terminal needs absolutely dead on and Linux Mint has been simplest to setup KDE distro for years. It's the only linux distro I can install and be 95% productive with after only about 10 minutes of customization - about 10 hotkey changes, and 5 app installations and I'm good to go.
I don't know what a "greeter" is supposed to be, but if being able to define a background color or a background picture is listed as a feature in 2014, it's not getting me interested in trying out Linux.
I'm sorry that you are modded down, but I certainly agree. Configuring a pretty background for the greeter sounds like a neat feature and I am grateful for the guy(s) who programmed it in, but it boggles my mind why it is mentioned as a major feature of the release. We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
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And once again, my confusion comes from the habit of OSS developers to name things differently from everybody else just for the sake of being different. This is annoying and pointless.
Had the news been about "changing the background color/picture on the login screen", I would have understood immediately.
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The "feature" is just icing on the cake. It was always possible to change the greeter backgrounds... individually in each greeter settings file.
From the way it sounds in this press release you can set the background once in a centralized space and it will automatically change the background for you in the event you switch your greeter for any reason ( not a very common occurrence barring major bugs being introduced) , saving you the "hassle" of having to go through and set up the new greeter background.
In other words it's polish, not a new killer feature.
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Fortunately it has nice Cinamon which I like with even AMD c-59 1 GHz with a simple netbook of chinese acer. But there doesn't fit Ubunut 14.04LTS, if freezes sometimes. I usesed vairiey of distributions without even have slightest clue what to do on that different OSs. But Linux has its common and draback Ubuntu 12.04 restricted some of my privilege to sing song, I solved it any way with the help of fourm in the canonical community. But, It's powerful than any of windows, but windows much more user friendly that's whay there is a balance between intellegent inside out fools outside, who think's Yes, I am in reality!