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Two very interesting options! I will give them both a try after my day of boring meetings. Thanks for such complete and thoughtful suggestions.

Maybe this should also be suggested to the Cinnamon developers as a potential feature request?

@Cosmo thanks for the suggestions. I already use #2 (and #1 is also a handy option). But I specifically want a way to cycle through windows without using my mouse (ideally using only my left hand), since there are times when I'm on the phone or my mouse hand is otherwise occupied and I want to be ab...

Howdy - I'd like to be able to cycle through the open apps on the current workspace using Alt+Tab and also cycle through all open apps on all workspaces using Super+Tab. Can anyone give me a hand setting that up? I'm newly returning to LM Cinnamon after spending a few years on Gnome/Pop_OS and so fa...

I'm now back from my trip and trying again to make this work (now with the mouse that I really want to work - a Microsoft Sculpt Touch mouse). There was a firmware update while I was away which I applied, and when I tried again to pair with this mouse, it failed (I also tried with another generic Mi...

Interesting! When I use the firmware file that you provided (thanks!), I am able to pair with a Logitech M535 bluetooth mouse that I picked up at BestBuy this morning. So that's progress! However, it's completely unusable, since the pointer just sort of meanders around the screen lagging way behind ...

Thanks everyone for your quick replies! I'm about to board another flight, but here are some quick answers: zap@chimuelito ~ $ lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net; lsusb; rfkill list; dmesg | egrep -i 'blue|firm' 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapte...

Been using and loving Mint for years. On my main laptop (a first-gen Dell XPS 13 - Core i5) I am running the latest Slylvia 64-bit with the MATE desktop. Been using it constantly and upgrading it for years and have rarely been tempted to switch to another distro, except for one nagging issue. Blueto...

Thanks for your reply! It turns out that I actually had a custom .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home directory (which I imagine I copied from a previous install). I edited it like so and now the clock appears the way that I want it to: style "my-panel-clock" { fg[NORMAL] = "#eeeeee" font_...

Compiz isn't respecting my flat theme's square top window corners (or shadows, but I can remove those in the Window Decoration settings). Is there a config file somewhere that I can edit to remove these? Thanks in advance for your help.

Just wondering how to fix a couple minor annoyances. 1. I have my Mate panel set to 24 pixels high, and when I click on the Mate menu it appears about 24 pixels above the panel with a space between it at the panel (and then will often jump back down when I roll over it). Any idea why this might happ...

Howdy - Since mid-December I'm having a terrible time with the wifi card on my Toshiba laptop. It's never worked great, but now I can barely get it to keep a wifi connection at more than 20 feet from the router. I've tried a whole lot of things, but so far nothing has resolved it. Does anyone out th...

I'm afraid that by saying this I'll jinx it, but this issue seems to be resolved. I did three things yesterday, one of which must have done the trick: I ran a dist-upgrade on the Debian file server (although I didn't see any Samba packages in the update list) I added "security=user" to my ...

Hello again - After quite a while of using AutoFS with no issues whatsoever, suddenly I'm having trouble. I recently updated my Debian file server to unstable and switched the DE to Mate, but these problems seem to have appeared a few days after that. What's happening is that my (Ubuntu-based, Qiana...

I used to use the Debian minimal netinstall and then change the sources to match LMDE's and install the desktop environment and software of my choosing. That seems to be pretty much what the OP wants. That or an Ubuntu minimal install (if you want the Ubuntu-based Mint) would seem to get you exactly...

Hey! That totally did the trick! Thanks!

I don't know why I am no longer getting emails when folks reply to posts that I'm following, but I'm glad that I checked back now or I would never have seen this.

Just a minor issue I'd like to resolve: I have added my most-used directories and mounts as bookmarks in Caja. They show up there and in the Places menu, but they do not show up in open and save dialogs from other programs. How can I get those dialogs to include these bookmarks? Thanks in advance fo...

RE: found a more recent fix .....http://askubuntu.com/questions/337785/wireless-not-working-on-toshiba-satellite-c55-a5281 you need page 2 post by chili555 Thanks for that. I think that the backported driver that I installed last night (see the link above in my post) is more recent (backports-3.12.2...

Sorry you're having trouble, but it's also good to see that I'm not alone in having these problems with Realtek wifi on Linux. I have a Toshiba laptop with RTL8188EE wifi and it disconnects on me constantly. My post on this is here . I'm pretty sure that this has nothing to do with the router, since...

LMDE repo is made for testing so is unlikely to work with stable. You can use the MATE repos. http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#debian_wheezy Note that neither LMDE or the above repo offer MATE 1.8 at the moment. To remove GNOME, Google is your friend. Somehow I didn't notice this reply until n...

Howdy - I have a home file server running Debian stable with Gnome Shell. I'd like to install the Mate desktop environment and remove Gnome. I'm wondering if there's a how-to here somewhere or if anyone has useful advice before I start. I imagine that what I need to do is to change my sources to the...