Various questions about LMDE

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Various questions about LMDE

Post by uoou »

Hello.

Questions in descending order of dumbness:

1. I've installed 64bit LMDE on my desktop and 32bit on my netbook. There seem to be many little differences between the two - different stuff installed by default and so on. Also in the 32 bit version in package manager I found a 'gnome-gmail' package which was very handy. I looked for this in synaptic on my desktop machine and couldn't find it (both installations have default repos selected), had to find a download online. Is this simply that the 32 and 64bit versions are ... different versions or is something odd happening?

(I should add that I ask because my understanding was that two versions of LMDE which are fully up to date would be (aside from anything else manually added in/removed and hardware dependent stuff, obviously) identical due to the rolling release nature of the thing. Is this not the case between 32/64bit? or is it something else?)

2. Is there a thing I can install which will give me something which functions sort of the way the Windows 7 system tray does. i.e. All the little systray icons are collected into something which is hiden and revealed with a click? I realise it's an extra click but I like the tidiness of it. I've had a search and not found anything but it's hard to know what to search for.

Loving LMDE though, I realise the above stuff isn't necessarily important but I'd appreciate any replies.

Thanks.
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Re: Various questions about LMDE

Post by tdockery97 »

In answer to your first question, the difference comes from one version being 32bit and the other being 64bit. Applications are written differently for each architecture. Apparently there isn't a 64bit verstion of the gnome-gmail package in the repositories.

As far as the panel behavior to hide icons like Windows, right-click on the panel at the location you want do install it, and select "add to panel". Then from the list select "drawer". This will install a drawer to the panel. When you click on it, it will open showing the contents. You can drag and drop new icons in the drawer while it is open.

I hope this answered your questions, and welcome to the Mint Forums.
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uoou

Re: Various questions about LMDE

Post by uoou »

Thanks for the reply and for clearing that up about 64/32bit. Wasn't a big deal but was nagging at me.

As to the other thing - thanks but I was aware of drawer. I'm specifically looking for something which hides system tray icons away (I don't want to get rid of them, I just want to hide them behind a click) (perhaps I should say 'notification area' icons and 'indicator applet'). I'm not holding out much hope for this and it's not really a big deal, would just be nice.
dawgdoc

Re: Various questions about LMDE

Post by dawgdoc »

There is an option to hide the entire panel. Right click on the panel, select <Properties> and enable the <Show Hide Buttons> But I think this may not be quite what you are asking about.
uoou

Re: Various questions about LMDE

Post by uoou »

Nope, but thanks for trying :)

I can live with it.
richyrich

Re: Various questions about LMDE

Post by richyrich »

You want to delete the Window List from the panel and replace it with the Window Selector . . . :mrgreen:
uoou

Re: Various questions about LMDE

Post by uoou »

You want to delete the Window List from the panel and replace it with the Window Selector . . .
No no. It's system tray icons I want to hide. Stuff that's minimised to tray like: skype, pidgin, xchat, gmail-thinger. And ideally also stuff like the volume control and networking indicator. I want all that, but I want it all tucked away somewhere rather than encroaching into my lovely clean taskbar space.

Here's how w7 does it, to illustrate:
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I'm open to alternative ways of achieving the same thing, but as I say I'm not massively fussed - it would just be nice.

Just to ram it home, I've circled the stuff I'm talking about here.
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