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Currently updating my distro, so making a note of what I did for my own reference and to help anyone else.
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lxde and sound

Posted 03-17-2012 at 05:11 PM by campanula

Decided to move to lxde due to repeatedly disappearing panel in xfce...

Now set up nicely... Transparent panels top and bottom with pretty wallpaper showing through and shortcuts that I like. Whilst I like a quite minimal view for my desktop, not really convinced I like the menu button with no text, and the only option is the location of the button logo. So I just modified it in GIMP to add 'Menu' next to the icon.

hmmm, the logout button doesn't work... That happened...
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day 1

Posted 03-14-2012 at 07:25 AM by campanula

Ran the live edition, seemed to go OK, internet working etc, so decided to install. My partitions were as follows, to make it easier (glad I decided to do that last time!):

/sda1 12GB obsolete ubuntu version to be replaced by the new LMDE
/sda2 logical partition:
/sda5 2GB swap
/sda3 36GB DATA partition with all my files on
/sda4 11GB Linux Mint 10 (to leave for now so I know it works if I need to do work!)


Install ran...
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Linux Mint Debian Edition

Posted 03-14-2012 at 06:52 AM by campanula
Updated 03-14-2012 at 06:54 AM by campanula

I currently have two computers, both elderly: a Pentium 4 desktop and a Pentium M laptop, both with 1GB RAM. At the moment I'm using Linux Mint 10 (Gnome) on the desktop and Linux Mint LXDE 11 on the laptop.

Linux Mint 10 is coming up to the end of it's support, so I need to do something on this computer... Ideally I want to have something with longer term support, so I don't have to faff around setting everything up again until I get around to getting a new computer with decent...
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