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Mint + Cairo -- best Linux ever?
mikewilson English 12 fabounet [Read]
08 November 2012 à 17:13

mikewilson, Sunday 04 March 2012 à 15:20 | Quote

Subscription date : 04 March 2012
Messages : 1 		I've been using various Linux versions & distros for most of 20 years, since installing Slackware from a mountain of floppies back in the early 90s. I'm now running Linux Mint with Cairo dock 2.4.0 and I think this is the best setup I have used.

I like to use keyboard shortcuts, so gratitude to SQP on the "Problems at use" forum for pointing me to compizconfig-settings-manager to get those working once I stopped using Mint's pretty good but slightly flaky Cinnamon. I hadn't even realised I was running compiz.

matttbe, Monday 05 March 2012 à 12:23 | Quote

Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 11237

I don't know if Linux Mint is the best distribution (which is based on Ubuntu with a few differences (it's installed with a few applications that you can't install in a few countries and this is why you can't have these packages on Ubuntu...) ) but Mint + Cairo is certainly a good idea

fabounet, Monday 05 March 2012 à 13:38 | Quote

Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 16708 		especially with the MintMenu applet

Guest, Monday 29 October 2012 à 17:48 | Quote
I've just installed Cairo onto my Mint PC. It seems to be working ok but I have this horrible black background around the dock. A tool tip message came up advising I use Compiz to remove this black background but Compiz is not installed wtih Mint. Does anyone know how I get rid of this?

matttbe, Monday 29 October 2012 à 18:48 | Quote

Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 11237 		Which session are you using? Mate?
I guess you're using a fork of Metacity (with maybe only another name... ). About this bug, you can have a look here but I'm not sure that this command will work:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true


Google helps me and I added one line for Mate, can you confirm that it works?
Mate without Compiz (with Metacity's fork, aka Marco): Install mate-conf-editor and launch mateconf-editor. Now in the mateconf-editor, go to Apps / Marco / General / enable this key: "compositing_manager".

Guest, Tuesday 30 October 2012 à 14:32 | Quote
Hi, thanks for the quick answer. I'm using MATE, I tried the above but doesn't seem to work. I don't seem to be able to install the mate-conf-editor. I did log in using the "GNOME with Cairo" session and that works well, but I cant get rid of the black background using the MATE session. I', no Linux expert so I'm probably missing something here.

Taffman, Tuesday 30 October 2012 à 15:55 | Quote

Subscription date : 30 October 2012
Messages : 3 		Just managed to fix this, all I needed to do was go into Cairo configuration, then Add-Ons, enable Composite-Manager and toggle to yes.

fabounet, Tuesday 30 October 2012 à 17:23 | Quote

Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 16708 		héhé, the dock auto-solved the problem, we've almost achieved an IA

Taffman, Tuesday 30 October 2012 à 18:41 | Quote

Subscription date : 30 October 2012
Messages : 3 		I spoke too soon, Whenever I restart the PC, the dock loses the Composite-Manager and I have to re-toggle it to "Yes" each time I log in. Is this a dock bug?
Also the Mint menu has suddenly stopped working, very strange?

matttbe, Wednesday 31 October 2012 à 01:47 | Quote

Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 11237
I don't seem to be able to install the mate-conf-editor
Does it work with this command launched from a terminal?
sudo apt-get install mate-conf-editor -y

Taffman, Wednesday 31 October 2012 à 11:07 | Quote

Subscription date : 30 October 2012
Messages : 3 		My apologies, it was installed, just didn't know what I was looking for
I've now enabled the "compositing_manager" key and the dock now loads transparently as expected. Thanks for this.

A few things I've noticed:

  1. The Mint Menu doesn't work but Applications Menu does.
  2. Mint "Panel" is still present, would have thought that with Cairo loaded, the Mint Panel would be hidden, but as the Mint Menu doesn't work thats a blessing in disguise I have currently moved the Mint "Panel" to the top of screen and enabled auto hide.


Thanks for the excellent support provided here.

matttbe, Friday 02 November 2012 à 21:38 | Quote

Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 11237
The Mint Menu doesn't work but Applications Menu does.
Which MintMenu? From the Mint project or our extras/third-party plugin?

Mint "Panel" is still present, would have thought that with Cairo loaded, the Mint Panel would be hidden, but as the Mint Menu doesn't work thats a blessing in disguise I have currently moved the Mint "Panel" to the top of screen and enabled auto hide.
It's maybe a 'mate' panel. You can remove it or you can use mateconf-editor to remove the key to launch this panel at startup.

fabounet, Thursday 08 November 2012 à 17:13 | Quote

Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 16708
, the dock loses the Composite-Manager

it's not the dock that loses the composite, but the Window manager that doesn't composite

The Mint Menu doesn't work but Applications Menu does.

I've taken a look at the Mint menu code, and I was shocked to see that the code now depends on the "mateapplet" python package, instead of the gnomeapplet...
That's why the Mate environment is just a horrible mess.
So now, the mintMenu applet can't work, because it acts as a gnome-applet, not a "mate-applet".

can you confirm that this is the version you're using ? I think you can find a mintmenu.py file somewhere in /usr (use thelocate command for that).

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