Re: newly installed apps not showing up in the menu
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:01 pm
Hi
I am new to Linux.
Wanted to get away from the windows conglamorate and after some reading decided to install Mint 12.
Found the options for configuring the destktop dissapointing and tried to download MintMenu to help. Then realized that a number of the apps I had downloaded wouldn't show up in the menu. As I was reading up on it in this thread it seems to me my menu and desktop isn't all there...
people talk about right clicks in the menu and bars top and bottom (which seem a waste of space if I can't modify them or add shortcuts...) I get no popups with rightclicks anywhere.
Also the desktop settings panel made me suspicious: it only shows the Terminal (select fortune cookies...) as an option. Never thought much of Microsoft, but this is lame.
Please somebody tell me I'm missing something or help me figure out how to make this desktop a little more accessible.
I am running a AMD 64X2 4200+ X2 64 bit Gallium 0.4 on NV4C with 4 gig ram
I installed off a live CD download and then upgraded to full DVD installation through the menu.
Something DID go wrong after the install, as there was an old GRUB loader on one of my drives from a previous Linux version. I booted off a windows disk and rebuild the MBR and Mint loaded seemingly fine. It DID mess up the other harddrive, but I had only aloted SWAP space to a partition on it.
I am new to Linux.
Wanted to get away from the windows conglamorate and after some reading decided to install Mint 12.
Found the options for configuring the destktop dissapointing and tried to download MintMenu to help. Then realized that a number of the apps I had downloaded wouldn't show up in the menu. As I was reading up on it in this thread it seems to me my menu and desktop isn't all there...
people talk about right clicks in the menu and bars top and bottom (which seem a waste of space if I can't modify them or add shortcuts...) I get no popups with rightclicks anywhere.
Also the desktop settings panel made me suspicious: it only shows the Terminal (select fortune cookies...) as an option. Never thought much of Microsoft, but this is lame.
Please somebody tell me I'm missing something or help me figure out how to make this desktop a little more accessible.
I am running a AMD 64X2 4200+ X2 64 bit Gallium 0.4 on NV4C with 4 gig ram
I installed off a live CD download and then upgraded to full DVD installation through the menu.
Something DID go wrong after the install, as there was an old GRUB loader on one of my drives from a previous Linux version. I booted off a windows disk and rebuild the MBR and Mint loaded seemingly fine. It DID mess up the other harddrive, but I had only aloted SWAP space to a partition on it.