![]() If you ever wonder why Linux Mint is so popular, you only have to look at features like applets and desklets to appreciate how closely Linux Mint listens to its users.Īpin Linux Inside, Software. Still, the main point of the applets and desklets is to allow users to customize as they choose, instead of telling them how some expert thinks they should work. The drag and drop installation that modern users expect simply isn’t there, and the current arrangement feels cumbersome. To download a new desklet, switch to the Download tab. Press the Super key, then type Desklets and hit enter. Their dialog windows are buried too deeply in the menus, and keeping most of them online means that the ones you want must be downloaded first, then installed. How to Get More Desklets Linux Mint Tip: The Super key is the name that many Linux distributions use to refer to the Windows key or the Apple Command key while avoiding any risk of trademark issues. As soon as we start Linux Mint we will see that we already have some of the previous options available, but we can also add some. However, some utilities such as Cinnamon Developer’s Tools are probably more useful at desklet’s increased visibility and sizes applets, by contrast, are easier to overlook because their size is confined by the height of the panel.Ĭinnamon’s applets and desklets could be implemented more smoothly. Although it is the best option to ensure 100 that we do not carry errors from a previous installation, installing a system from scratch can be a hassle. If Cinnamon’s applets don’t have something for everyone, you get the impression that they soon might have, considering applets such as sports-update, Virtual Machine Launcher, and Hamster Time Tracker.ĭesklets are fewer in number than applets no doubt because they are newer and tend to emphasize the practical. The Virtual Keyboard is available for users with limited vision, while bloggers might benefit from Shortenize URL. The Graphics Center and Office Center offer a taste of task-oriented computing. Other applets, however, are more inventive. So I was just wondering if anyone else uses screenlets on MATE 1.Applets and desklets offer over 180 different utilities. Uninstalled them and since then no more errors.īut of course, as I am pretty new to Linux, I might have overlooked something upon install or maybe installed/removed things I shouldn’t have… Ignored the errors, but after a short “sleep”, the desktop woke to a log screen… with no log options.Īll this happened shortly after I installed and used the screenlets. I forced a reboot and got some errors on rebooting… I am asking because I some days ago, my computer would not wake up after having gone to sleep over the night… That is why I was interested in the so called “Screenlets”.īut my question is : are those supposed to be really compatible with Ubuntu 15.10 and MATE 1.12 ? ![]() Of course Conky Manager helps a lot, but it offers rather little themes One of the features I like is the ability to display the system monitor on the desktop.Ĭonky can do that, but it’s not really easy to configure. Coming from the Mac world, I must say that I love the ability to configure the appearance of my Desktop to my likings above all other features (the rest happens under the hood, and I won’t make a difference anyways )
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