Video of novices guide to customizing the menu panel

[ukbrian]

If you want to change your menu from the default http://lin.me.uk/mint/tutorials/mint-menu/menu-mint-1.png
to this http://lin.me.uk/mint/tutorials/mint-menu/menu-mint-2.png
Then I have made a short video of customizing the menu panel to your own tastes.
If you want this checkout the Big Red video


If you download it rather than streaming the video it's much kinder to my bandwidth and you can watch/share the video multiple times.
download .zip
http://lin.me.uk//mint/tutorials/mint-menu/menu-mint.zip
Streaming
http://lin.me.uk//mint/tutorials/mint-menu/menu-mint.wmv


Please give me some feedback good or bad
whether these videos are of any use to newcomers or novices,
I find that children or folk like me that can't handle a manual(double Dutch to me) benefit enormously from videos.

Other videos
Video of installing LMDE in Virtualbox on XP http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=56065
Video of default LMDE Firefox profile using Speed Dial http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=56180
Video of putting a Big Red shut down button on the panel http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=56793&p=325298#p325298

All feedback good or bad and suggestions for other video are very welcome
ukbrian

[markcynt]

Both links produce 404 Not Found

[ukbrian]

Both links produce 404 Not Found

sorry, I'm not very good at this but I've fixed them I think.
ukbrian

[rufong]

thx for sharing the videos brian.
a friend of mine has peppermint - ice installed,
i'm encouraging him to try mint, maybe lmde when he has time.
i sent him the video link, we installed peppermint for him
recently as that was all i thought i had with me when he
replaced his hdd and wasn't able to install an OS.

did u make a video of creating the shutdown/reboot buttons?

[ukbrian]

Hi rufong Thanks for the feedback
Sorry I took so long but I'm a slow old bu**er, there's a video now at http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=56793&p=325298#p325298

If you're helping a friend you might have a look at http://teamviewer.com/index.aspx
It's the best free Remote access app I have come across

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 100 million users trust TeamViewer!

I was thinking of doing a video of using gparted the partitioning manager on Virtualbox
so folk can practice creating and resizing partitions on a virtual machine before they try the real thing on a HDD.
ukbrian

[rufong]

i'll check that video out.
teamviewer eh, saw u mention that in basic programs to go into the next lmde.
think i'll try teamviewer on my sis' puter, then perhaps my parents, hehe.
thx for the advice!

[indaymadel]

Based on your screenshot, you've got WINE installed in there. Is that the latest wine version?

Wine version found on debian repos are too old. They didn't even upload the 2nd stable version of wine. They're still using the old one.
How about yours?

[ukbrian]

Based on your screenshot, you've got WINE installed in there. Is that the latest wine version?
Wine version found on debian repos are too old. They didn't even upload the 2nd stable version of wine. They're still using the old one.
How about yours?

My version of Wine is 1.01-3+b1
I just use it for running the free windows version of Treepad as the Linux version is no longer supported, it's where I jot down all my user names/passwords and all the other things I can never remember.

Was the video any help to you?
ukbrian

[ukbrian]

I just bumped into this post from Emerson Prado for updating Wine, I'm now running version 1.1.42
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=56542#p337011
ukbrian

[Wrinkly]

Thanks, Brian.
I thought your video was clear, easy-to-understand, and very informative.
Am eagerly awaiting the sequel...