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05-06-2014, 10:37 AM
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#61
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Kirkwall, Orkney
Distribution: Linux Mint 20.3 - Cinnamon
Posts: 1,425
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@Didier Spaier
I've just installed fotoxx and it looks like a very good photo processor, but I think shotwell is a better photo album manager for import and storage of photos.
samac
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05-06-2014, 02:05 PM
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#62
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samac
Thanks, just my luck for the update to come in just after I fixed it all by hand.
Have you tried Shotwell as a camera/photo manager? It downloads from your camera, files your pictures by date and allows you to process them. I think that it would appeal to Picassa users.
samac
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I've tested Shotwell, and I hated its way to reorganize my Pictures as it thinks is best, without asking me. I completely messed up my image collection. GThumb seemed like the lesser evil.
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05-06-2014, 02:23 PM
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#63
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Kirkwall, Orkney
Distribution: Linux Mint 20.3 - Cinnamon
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One last issue.
My memory usage at start up is around 640mb and is 882mb at the moment and climbing. I'm only running firefox and system monitor. So I suspect a memory leak.
What is the normal memory usage of mate/firefox/system monitor?
How do I track down the leak?
samac
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05-06-2014, 06:19 PM
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#64
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: France
Distribution: Slackware 15.0 64bit
Posts: 1,172
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samac
My memory usage at start up is around 640mb and is 882mb at the moment and climbing. I'm only running firefox and system monitor. So I suspect a memory leak.
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I'm using MATE 1.8.1 running Firefox 24.5 ESR (2 or 3 tabs opened), audacious playing some music, Thunderbird, MATE terminal and system monitor since about 1 hour. System monitor reports 545Mb used out of 3.7Gb. I didn't pay too much attention but I may have started at around 500Mb.
When I closed Firefox, memory usage went back to 326Mb. After restarting Firefox, it's 480Mb. Now is time to go to bed
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05-07-2014, 07:49 AM
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#66
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Member
Registered: Jan 2014
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 (MLED 32-bit)
Posts: 84
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samac
A couple of minor concerns/suggestions.
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GDM en Francais, heuresement je parle un peux Francais ( but only a little and very badly ), could there be an internationalizastion step? This would take care of the question above as well.
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samac
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I just moved to MLED-MATE and found that /etc/profile.d/lang.sh gets overwritten during the transition. That's why GDM (and the whole desktop environment) appeared in French.
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05-07-2014, 08:12 AM
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#67
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Member
Registered: Jan 2014
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 (MLED 32-bit)
Posts: 84
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I have *moved* the user .config folder and then copied back some of the configuration settings used by applications I need.
Here are some initial observations:
0) Some application icons are missing from the "Applications" menu:
- "Accessories": "Archive Manager", "Take Noes";
- "Graphics": "Color Chooser", "Image Viewer";
- "Internet": "Bittorrent Client", "Electronic Mail", "Internet Messenger";
- "Office": "Document Viewer";
- "Sound and Video": "SMPlayer", "Video Editor".
1) the "Preferred Applications" menu does not allow one to select a mail reader;
2) the "Video Player" option is set to "Enqueue in SMPlayer" (with an icon), while the next choice -- "SMPlayer" -- is without an icon;
3) a volume control is missing.
Everything is running fine for now... Later I'll create a fresh account and will report back if I find more problems.
Nice job!
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05-07-2014, 08:15 AM
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#68
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by s09
I just moved to MLED-MATE and found that /etc/profile.d/lang.sh gets overwritten during the transition. That's why GDM (and the whole desktop environment) appeared in French.
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This is explained in detail in the step by step MLED Installation Guide. Take a peek near the bottom of the document, in the "Set Locales" section.
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05-07-2014, 08:19 AM
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#69
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by s09
0) Some application icons are missing from the "Applications" menu:
- "Accessories": "Archive Manager", "Take Noes";
- "Graphics": "Color Chooser", "Image Viewer";
- "Internet": "Bittorrent Client", "Electronic Mail", "Internet Messenger";
- "Office": "Document Viewer";
- "Sound and Video": "SMPlayer", "Video Editor".
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Try to do the following:
- Create a dummy user using adduser.
- Run the cleanmenu.sh script in the MLED-$VERSION-$ARCH/tools subdirectory.
- Log out, then log in as your new user.
- Check if the menus are still incomplete.
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05-07-2014, 08:19 AM
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#70
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Member
Registered: Jan 2014
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 (MLED 32-bit)
Posts: 84
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I just was surprised that it wasn't mentioned in README-MATE.txt that lang.sh needs to be updated.
Last edited by s09; 05-07-2014 at 08:27 AM.
Reason: To better fit into the thread
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05-07-2014, 08:21 AM
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#71
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: France
Distribution: Slackware 15.0 64bit
Posts: 1,172
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For what it's worth: galculator-is-coming-to-mate/
I believe that MLED user base includes academics and research labs. So maybe it's worth to keep galculator in MLED.
For my part, I kept galculator (from SBo) and didn't install mate-calculator. It's not that I'm using RPN every day but it seems to be a very good tool.
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05-07-2014, 08:21 AM
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#72
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Member
Registered: Jan 2014
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 (MLED 32-bit)
Posts: 84
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BTW, is there an easy way to "conserve" a XFCE-MLED install by only performing critical updates (i.e. from "patches")?
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05-07-2014, 08:53 AM
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#73
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Jogja, Indonesia
Distribution: Slackware-Current
Posts: 4,775
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gegechris99
For what it's worth: galculator-is-coming-to-mate/
I believe that MLED user base includes academics and research labs. So maybe it's worth to keep galculator in MLED.
For my part, I kept galculator (from SBo) and didn't install mate-calculator. It's not that I'm using RPN every day but it seems to be a very good tool.
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It will be part of mate 1.10 release, but of course you can build it from SBo or from msb master branch
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05-07-2014, 08:54 AM
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#74
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Member
Registered: Jan 2014
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 (MLED 32-bit)
Posts: 84
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kikinovak
Try to do the following:
- Create a dummy user using adduser.
- Run the cleanmenu.sh script in the MLED-$VERSION-$ARCH/tools subdirectory.
- Log out, then log in as your new user.
- Check if the menus are still incomplete.
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Ah, I got it -- creating a pristine user account enables all the MLED customizations. Removing ~/.config enables a default MATE configuration (*not* to be confused with the MLED-MATE *custom* configuration), therefore my previous notes about the menu do not apply to MLED-MATE itself.
In a moment I'll report from a clean user account that has all the bells and whistles from MATE-MLED ;-)
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05-07-2014, 08:56 AM
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#75
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Jogja, Indonesia
Distribution: Slackware-Current
Posts: 4,775
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Quote:
Originally Posted by s09
I just moved to MLED-MATE and found that /etc/profile.d/lang.sh gets overwritten during the transition. That's why GDM (and the whole desktop environment) appeared in French.
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I believe it's not MATE's fault since we or upstream do not overwrite those files
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