I am testing Mate now after pulling my hair out with Cinnamon's task bar disappearing. Both on Cinnamon's and now with mate I constantly lose the right click context menus or the ability to do simple things like cut and paste.
I am using ATI's grafics drivers for my ATI card, I have all Updates installed. The machine is a 64 bit with 4 gigs of system ram. I test a lot of Linux distros and I have never had this kind of trouble with them. I used Mint in the past without these problems. What could be causing these things? I'd like to fix it and have a stable Mint distro. FYI, I only use the Terminal when I have to and that by following instruction, you may have to walk me through your fixes.
Thanks.
Mint 13 - Major stability problems
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ElectricRider
Mint 13 - Major stability problems
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RobertLM78
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Re: Mint 13 - Major stability problems
What do you mean by lose? Are they disappearing? I'm using MATE and I have never had a context menu disappear, nor have I had any copy and paste issues. Did you install MATE on top of the Cinnamon Edition, or did you do a fresh install?ElectricRider wrote: Both on Cinnamon's and now with mate I constantly lose the right click context menus or the ability to do simple things like cut and paste.
Gateway DX4860, Sapphire Radeon HD 5450, 8 GB RAM, Mint 17.3 64-bit (Rosa), MATE
AMD Ryzen 3-3100, AMD Radeon RX 570, 16 GB RAM, Mint 21 (Vanessa), MATE
AMD Ryzen 3-3100, AMD Radeon RX 570, 16 GB RAM, Mint 21 (Vanessa), MATE
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ElectricRider
Re: Mint 13 - Major stability problems
I right click and no right click context menu appears.. such as on the desktop background.
I did a fresh install on a newly formatted with Ext4 partition.
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Like just now for instance. i was in natulus and suddenly could not access anything on the top toolbar.. File, Edit even icon View - nothing worked. I could click on different places, like system or network. I opened up this post to tell of the experience and found i could not type text.. even though clicking on buttons worked fine. I had to relog to fix the problem. This is getting very frustrating.
I did a fresh install on a newly formatted with Ext4 partition.
Edit:
Like just now for instance. i was in natulus and suddenly could not access anything on the top toolbar.. File, Edit even icon View - nothing worked. I could click on different places, like system or network. I opened up this post to tell of the experience and found i could not type text.. even though clicking on buttons worked fine. I had to relog to fix the problem. This is getting very frustrating.
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RobertLM78
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Re: Mint 13 - Major stability problems
I'm sure sorry about your troubles. Are you using a generic or otherwise odd keyboard? I have an older ATI card on my 32-bit machine that seems to have finally integrated properly into the system (although it took a fresh install to make that happen 
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Again, I might suggest doing a fresh install of the MATE edition (not just MATE on top op Cinnamon), I've heard of some issues with Cinnamon lately - I guess since that fork is of a more cutting edge and unstable desktop (Gnome 3.X) there is a lot more to go wrong. I never could get Cinnamon with Mint 12 (or Gnome 3 with Ubuntu Oneiric and Precise, for that matter) to load properly on my 32-bit machine, even after upgrading to 1GB RAM.
).Again, I might suggest doing a fresh install of the MATE edition (not just MATE on top op Cinnamon), I've heard of some issues with Cinnamon lately - I guess since that fork is of a more cutting edge and unstable desktop (Gnome 3.X) there is a lot more to go wrong. I never could get Cinnamon with Mint 12 (or Gnome 3 with Ubuntu Oneiric and Precise, for that matter) to load properly on my 32-bit machine, even after upgrading to 1GB RAM.
Gateway DX4860, Sapphire Radeon HD 5450, 8 GB RAM, Mint 17.3 64-bit (Rosa), MATE
AMD Ryzen 3-3100, AMD Radeon RX 570, 16 GB RAM, Mint 21 (Vanessa), MATE
AMD Ryzen 3-3100, AMD Radeon RX 570, 16 GB RAM, Mint 21 (Vanessa), MATE
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gmh_michael
Re: Mint 13 - Major stability problems
I've experienced the same with mint 13. also a lot of my games dont work on the cinnamon desktop. has anyone had this issue in mate? or should i just wait for the XFCE release?