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Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:06 pm**

I have a question I didn't see above. If it's been asked already I apologize in advance. Is it possible to port the xfapplet mint menu thingy to LMDE Xfce?

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:26 pm**

tdockery97 wrote:I have a question I didn't see above. If it's been asked already I apologize in advance. Is it possible to port the xfapplet mint menu thingy to LMDE Xfce?

xfapplet mint menu thingy?
I lost you after "thingy"

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:31 pm**

I think it's actually called xfce4-applet-plugin. It's what is used to add Mint Menu in Mint 13-14 Xfce.

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:51 pm**

tdockery97 wrote: I think it's actually called xfce4-applet-plugin. It's what is used to add Mint Menu in Mint 13-14 Xfce.

It seems an Ubuntu "thingy", but I'll have a look at it when I have some time.

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:05 pm**

Gene will have to confirm this

but the xfce-applet-plugin-thingy

tdockery is mentioning might work as per his post here
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 17#p671809

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:55 pm**

Well, I tried the latest iso from the live DVD and video performance (YouTube and similar sites) was absolutely horrid for me. As I spend probably 25% of my computer time watching streaming video, that's a deal breaker. Other live DVD's work just fine on video. I may have to stick to Mint 14 Cinnamon (not a bad thing; it's working great for me).

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:09 pm**

tdockery97 wrote: I think it's actually called xfce4-applet-plugin. It's what is used to add Mint Menu in Mint 13-14 Xfce.

I don't know why Clem doesn't supply it with LMDE? Its now actually a Mate Applet, and available here.
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main ... et-plugin/

It does work with Mint Menu... in LMDE/XFCE...

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:12 pm**

@GeneC: One thing I have found which blanks the screen is if xrandr or another similar program is run which attempts to find your monitor and allowed resolutions.

I am still using xrandr to fix my monitor's resolution to native, and nearly every time xrandr runs, it blanks the screen.

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:17 pm**

GeneC wrote:I don't know why Clem doesn't supply it with LMDE?

i'm still looking for the quote

but as far as i recall it needs 4.10

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:35 pm**

Yes, I believe that's it...

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Reported sound not working, but I lost it on other OS's on this computer at well. Might have left something unconnected when I changed the power supply last week....

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Re: The unofficial LMDE Xfce UP6 SR1
by cwsnyder on Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:12 pm

@GeneC: One thing I have found which blanks the screen is if xrandr or another similar program is run which attempts to find your monitor and allowed resolutions.

I am still using xrandr to fix my monitor's resolution to native, and nearly every time xrandr runs, it blanks the screen.

Thanks, Thinking it might just be a power savings "thingy" that is built into the monitor (that I can't control)..

Today, is just one of those days, that computers are ticking me right off.

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:27 am**

Schoelje wrote:
tdockery97 wrote: I think it's actually called xfce4-applet-plugin. It's what is used to add Mint Menu in Mint 13-14 Xfce.
It seems an Ubuntu "thingy", but I'll have a look at it when I have some time.

I got it to work in a VM just have to do the following steps to get it to work
1. install xfce4-xfappletplugin from http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main ... et-plugin/
2. open terminal and cd to location you downloaded .deb to and run sudo dpkg -i xfce4-xfapplet-plugin_0.1.0-4mint2_amd64.deb or i386 if running 32 bit
3. it will complain about some mate package errors, to fix it run sudo apt-get -f install to get the packages it needs.
4. install mintmenu sudo apt-get install mintmenu
5. right click on bottom panel go to panel and go to add new items and add the Xfapplet to panel
6. move the Xfapplet to where you want it before adding the mentmenu applet as it cannot be moved after adding it.
7. right click on applet and select properties and select mintmenu
8. enjoy mintmenu on your LMDE Xfce Unofficial machine

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:19 am**

Hello Schoelje,

the mirror for the xfce up6sr1 is up to date

http://erwin-reichel.de/lmde/lmdexfce32 ... 201301.iso
http://erwin-reichel.de/lmde/lmdexfce64 ... 201301.iso

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:45 am**

webworker wrote:Hello Schoelje,

the mirror for the xfce up6sr1 is up to date

http://erwin-reichel.de/lmde/lmdexfce32 ... 201301.iso
http://erwin-reichel.de/lmde/lmdexfce64 ... 201301.iso

Thanks, webworker!
I've updated the download section at the beginning of the thread.

Btw, can you see how often the iso's are downloaded from your site?

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:14 am**

Schoelje wrote: Btw, can you see how often the iso's are downloaded from your site?

/lmde/lmdekde64_up6sr1_201212.iso 64
/lmde/lmdekde32_up6sr1_201212.iso 60
/lmde/lmdexfce64_up6_201301.iso 44

total 168

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:32 am**

webworker wrote:
Schoelje wrote: Btw, can you see how often the iso's are downloaded from your site?
/lmde/lmdekde64_up6sr1_201212.iso 64
/lmde/lmdekde32_up6sr1_201212.iso 60
/lmde/lmdexfce64_up6_201301.iso 44

total 168

Not bad for an unofficial distro.

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:19 am**

GeneC wrote: -------------

Reported sound not working, but I lost it on other OS's on this computer at well. Might have left something unconnected when I changed the power supply last week....

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It wasn't a hardware problem. Sound worked fine on my SID installations.
Probably peculiar to my hardware (I added an aux. sound card, in additon to the built in card, that had problems .)
I haven't seen anyone else complain of sound problems, but just in case some have...

I am using the Soundblaster card. (Card-2)

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gene@lmdeup6:~$ inxi -A
Audio:     Card-1: NVIDIA GF104 High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster driver: snd_ca0106
           Card-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel

Could only get sound to work by installing.

Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol)

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pavucontrol (1.0-1)
pulseaudio-esound-compat (2.0-6)
pulseaudio-module-gconf (2.0-6)
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf (2.0-6)

And adjusting settings=

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:20 am**

Best Wheezy I've tried so far, well done!

Running on an AMD 4 core desktop

With a fresh install and immediately installing the PAE kernel when I boot up after selecting in the grub menu and before the login screen I get this error

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process(283) Glib-warning  getpwuid-r() failed due to unknown user id (0)

I don't know if it matters as it seems to run OK

I would suggest with the live desktop you set the desktop settings>Icons Icon-size to 40, use a Custom font size of 8 and untick Filesystem and removable drives for a better desktop with the icon labels fully displayed.

I would also add pavucontrol(PulseAudio Volume Control)

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:58 am**

Hi Brian.

Long time...
Nice to see another XFCE fan here...

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:42 am**

ukbrian wrote:...................
With a fresh install and immediately installing the PAE kernel when I boot up after selecting in the grub menu and before the login screen I get this error
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process(283) Glib-warning  getpwuid-r() failed due to unknown user id (0)
I don't know if it matters as it seems to run OK
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Known Bug! (Plymouth related)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/532984

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:06 pm**

GeneC wrote:Hi Brian.
Long time...
Nice to see another XFCE fan here...

Hi Gene
Yea, I can't see me leaving Xfce I'm liking all the improvements that have been added during the last 2 years.
I'm still using my xfce custom menus that live on my data partition, it's been 2 years now and I still love them.

I'm always about on the forum, just nothing of consequence to say.

I've been following/installing Schoelje's fine efforts since the start, incredibly fast, solid development and a good end product, I'm just a bit nervous of when the freeze ends.