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  There’s something cool in store for MATE and Xfce users. It was implemented this week and it’s coming in Linux Mint 17.3. The “Desktop Settings” tool will now support the following window/compositing managers under MATE and Xfce: Marco, Metacity, Xfwm4, Openbox, Compiz and Compton. A new help section was added to explain various concepts ...

Work continues on MATE. The display settings received the following improvements: – They show the output names as well as display names (This feature was recently added to Cinnamon 2.8). – A new “Set as primary” button was added to set the selected monitor as primary (among other things this allows you to define where ...

Work started on MATE. Today it received support for 2-finger and 3-finger clicks as well as natural scrolling.

The workspace switcher applet is now able to show a visual representation of your workspaces, with little cubes for the windows inside of them :) In the example above you’re looking at two workspaces with three windows each. A couple of things to consider: This hasn’t been themed yet, so it should look nicer by ...

After the Google look… after the Facebook look… here’s an impressive Windows XP theme for Cinnamon: Making my computer look like Windows XP isn’t exactly my thing, but I’m quite impressed with the quality of that theme. Whether it’s in the gradients, shades or shapes, there’s a lot of attention to detail and a finish ...

JosephM applied a couple of fixes to box pointers from our GNOME cousin. Making weird box pointers which looked like this: now look like this:  

It’s always a real pleasure to work on different desktop environments. In the 17.2 cycle, Xfce was upgraded to version 4.12 and brought a lot of nice features. One thing immediately caught my attention because both the Xfce and the Cinnamon teams had worked on improving power management… and that was the presence of manufacturer ...

To celebrate the start of a new development cycle, here’s a “glorious” (for our Linux Mint 7 nostalgics) wallpaper :) Many thanks to calexil for making it and sending it to us. View post on imgur.com

DuckDuckGo is always looking for ways to strengthen trust in its strict privacy policy. They’ve been further emboldened in this effort after PEW recently reported “91% of adults (in the survey) agree or strongly agree that consumers have lost control over how personal information is collected and used by companies.”. One area where they can ...