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Maybe a slight revival of the minty colors project would be nice to streamline the colour changing process to match with the wallpaper in use. Not sure how it can be done, really but it's certainly possible. For the Compiz users who also somehow managed to get Emerald working, Ordinary Shiki Wise is...

Figured I would post this since Discourse, being an open-source forum tool could very well be more secure if configured correctly than our present solution. It would put the forum on hold for a few days, but I believe Discourse to be fairly more powerful than phpBB, especially when it comes to devel...

It's been a long time since I've been here, hasn't it? Anyway, I decided to attempt making an oxygen icon set specifically for MATE in general. I've decided to call this set oxy-mint-unofficial and it provides as follows; oxy-mint : A duplicate of oxy-grey with recoloured busy icons oxy-mint-dark : ...

I've tried this already, and I don't seem to know what I am doing. While this match condition I am looking for normally makes zero sense to do, I've been using Compiz Reloaded (0.8.12) and I am using Static WIndows, Desktop Cube and Screen Saver in conjunction to make it so all sticky windows are re...

Introduction It is the backport that refuses to die! Compiz Reloaded had recently been unleashed into the wild, and both the Compiz enthusiasts and MATE development communities didn't skip a beat with this one. Remember anaglyph? Remember blur effects? Remember having endless animations to choose f...

This seems horribly broken at the moment. I would recommend for newbies starting out to skip adding the Pepper Flash PPA and install Google Chrome instead, following this article to resolve repo issues after; http://www.webupd8.org/2016/03/fix-failed-to-fetch-google-chrome_3.html If you still encoun...

Added what I did to make a pseudo-applet using a drawer applet and some tinkering.

Feel free to move this thread into Desktops and Window Managers/MATE if this isn't the right subforum for my question.

As it says on the tin. I recently wrote a lengthy thread about installing xscreensaver in a way that doesn't involve superseding the existence of the default screensaver, and I recently discovered that despite my best efforts, the lock screen applet still relies on the default screensaver binaries. ...

Added information about spoofing gnome-screensaver when the system_management.py file in the updated OP is in use, giving people an easy means to fix the screensaver command stuff when "Lock Screen" is clicked on from Mint Menu both while XScreensaver is installed and after XScreensaver has been rem...

That's an especially handy thing if you are using NTFS to make a big partition you can use in Windows without compatibility software. I made this handy little script during the install process to make that possible; mkdir /path/to/Downloads mkdir /path/to/Documents mkdir /path/to/Videos mkdir /path/...

My OP missed a step. Not sure if you need to, but I added a step to disable the old screensaver first through mate-screensaver-preferences before anything else. I also botced up xscreensaver-command. My keyboard sucks.

Edit from original; Terminal commands were italicized before, but are now underlined to differentiate them from italics used for emphasis. Using Xfce? XScreensaver is the screensaver by default! No long-winded introduction or rationale, just a simple guide for getting XScreensaver up and running. I...

I figured I would reply with some information during my long-term use of this before I buggered off and left this thread to rot; For some reason after some upgrade Firefox refuses to boot until I uninstalled the freshplayer package. As it stands I am writing this in Linux Mint 17.1 live with freshwr...

Fair enough. When NoScript was just starting out, I was using FlashBlock alongside it as well thousands of other Firefox users.

There are some other browser add-ins that allow the user to improve their chances of not wrecking themselves as they browse the web; Status-4-Evar NoScript Flashblock The three above add the following, respectively; Make it easier to see the location of addresses in the browser per user preference A...

Introduction Just a quick post about these; If you've used GIMP, you've probably used the XCF format once or twice. Maybe, multiple times depending on if you're working with a project where you need to perform many iterations for a client; you could shove your iterations of a project into a new fol...

This guide is more-or-less specific to the Oxygen cursors, but may apply to others KDE has some awesome cursors. Too bad then, when you try to use them outside of KDE, some things become broken, like the resize cursors, or even the fact you need to change the system cursor theme. So until the Ubunt...

See latest post by me; This seems broken. And unlike my last "Tutorial", this actually has merit to exist. Introduction Flash is old . It is also necessary to have for some corners of the internet. As it stands now, the version of Flash available by default has no software acceleration because Adob...

I had installed the LADSPA PA EQ on my computer because I wanted to improve how my audio sounds. I would go with the FFT EQ but that doesn't become automatically selected, whereas the LADSPA-powered EQ works on login. My issue is with the audio peaking and clipping. An easy fix for this is to lower ...