On behalf of the team and all the developers who contributed to this build, I am proud to announce the release of Cinnamon 3.2! Here’s a quick overview of some of the most visible changes in this new version: Session Manager QT 5.7+ support Settings Daemon iio-sensor-proxy rotation plugin Fix cursor-size changes being ignored Support ...

Screen blanking in Xplayer Xplayer, the media player, was given the availability to blank other monitors. If you have more than one monitor, you can now press the “Blank Other Monitors” button when playing a video in full screen. Your video will continue playing and all your other monitors will turn black. The blanking can ...

Xed, the text editor, was given a brand new search and replace bar. When performing a search, the text is no longer obstructed by a dialog box. Instead, the search bar appears at the bottom of the editor. The search is progressive and you can simply jump from one result to the next by pressing ...

About FUD within the Linux community I find it really despicable to see developers, maintainers and communities from competing projects create and spread FUD about Linux Mint in an effort to promote their own distribution. At this cost, getting more users is futile. Of course, a project needs a large audience to succeed, but what ...

About a week ago, I decided to create a new team, dedicated to artwork, style and design for Linux Mint. The main goal of this team is to restyle our various websites, but also long term to work in coordination with the development team to make various aspects of our distribution more pleasing to the ...

The KDE edition of Linux Mint 18 just passed QA and should be available as BETA this weekend. Here’s a screenshot and some details to keep you waiting :) There are three major differences between this edition and the other Linux Mint editions: The default display manager isn’t MDM, but SDDM. The packages for the ...

On behalf of the team and all the developers who contributed to this build, I am proud to announce the release of Cinnamon 3.0! Here’s a quick overview of some of the changes in this new version: Window management improvements on tiling, mapping and unmapping windows, compositor’s window groups and tracking of full screen windows ...

Somebody asked for this a few months ago… and it was a good idea. And then I noticed my three PS4 controllers were all called “Wireless Keyboard” (Sony doesn’t put any model/vendor information in them). And then I noticed my Macbook Pro laptop battery had a really weird name I really didn’t like. So here ...