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You know he could switch his mind set to helping people learn linux and charge them for that instead of keep fixing the same problems over and over again on Windows systems.
What a better world we would have.

Thanks Moem I was just trying to address an issue of using multiple DE. That is where i say the topic changing to at some point in the discussion. I have done that with KDE and XFCE and it got a little confusing with all the duplicate packages that each DE comes with. Just was going to be a word of ...

You are correct they will run no matter what DE you choose. I was mostly coming from the fact the you might see or have multiple entries in your menu just a visual point of view. You could always modify the menu so you know which one you are clicking on like: File Manager - XFCE File Manager - Cinna...

Sorry for jumping in here.
I may have missed it but isn't the problem with doing this you might have duplicate packages that do the same thing in your menu choices.
Like a file manager for cinnamon and xfce?
Won't your menus show duplicate packages no matter what DE you pick at login?

I have a pretty simple system. This is what mine shows: cihonm@cihonm:/etc$ lsof -U +c 15 | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -15 71 dbus-daemon 15 x-session-manag 15 systemd 9 pulseaudio 8 variety 8 palemoon 8 mate-screensave 8 clock-applet 7 gvfsd-trash 7 gvfsd-network 6 wineserver ...

Ten days in to the life of the new install it would lockup answering an email

What Email Package?

I am using Variety with MATE but what I want to do is have different wallpapers rotating on each Monitor. Right now the same wallpaper shows up on both monitors.
When the wallpaper changer was broke I was able to use feh and crontab with a script file to do this.

Is there a way to use a different Wallpaper manager in MATE?
Such as Nitrogen.
Thanks

Thank you that worked

I have a script that I want to startup when I log in. I want to put the command in the Startup Applications menu. The command would be something like this: either $HOME/somescript.sh or /home/$USER/somescript.sh So far I cannot get this to work. I don't know the proper syntax. It works when I go to ...

Try this package:
Variety: [url]http://peterlevi.com/variety/[/url]

I am going to put a plug in for Solydxk.
They have a monthy update pack they release.
Come take a look: [url]http://solydxk.com/[/url]

Well you both bring up some good points. I started down LMDE due to the "rolling release" somewhat cutting edge "Testing" repos. It seems that Main Mint release is more cutting edge than LMDE "rolling". Maybe I still don't understand the concepts. LMDE is stable. But I ...

That is what I am running now.
However new KDE updates like going to 4.10 is in limbo for LMDE KDE is what I was referring to.
It might be a while for an "eventual" release.

I read the post by Clem on the future of LMDE KDE. Doesn't look very promising to me that this will be kept up with. Is there a way to find out how many of us that are using this are out here. I am curious what all of you are going to do. KDE is my favorite and LMDE is also my favorite either in Tes...

I had to comment on this. Here is my spin on your subject. Linux (Mint or otherwise) is like a maze. You don't know where the exit is so you start wondering though the maze crashing into walls that lead you nowhere, sometimes ending up back where you started. Eventually you will make it down the rig...

Sorry I had to chime in.
You can't even use a pencil out of the box. It has to be sharpened.

I would also at least give it 1GB of ram.

Edit:

Yea Zero forgot about the full video memory.

I have to leave right now but you should be able to hit del or esc. keep tapping one of those keys as it is starting up and it should take you to the bios screen before it finishes trying to boot. If you can't do that you may have a memory or chipset issue. Generally if you did the computer would be...

Check your bios settings boot options to see if it is set to boot to CD.