Alan2273 Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/linuxmi...es/Bea-2.1/?fl=Better desktopThis is probably the biggest improvement in Bea: A brand new desktop. Linux Mint 2.1 comes with mintDesktop, which adds a lot of desktop improvements: * Quick access to the computer and home places * Quick access to the terminal from the context menu * Ability to delete files directly without sending them to the Trash * mintDesktop home folders * Beagle search * Tomboy notes * Network managerBetter Wifi supportBea comes with mintWifi, which purpose is to allow you to configure your wireless card without an Internet connection. mintWifi comes with the following: * Ndiswrapper and Ndisgtk * Cabextractor and unshield * Tutorials to install and configure your Wifi card * A collection of Wifi drivers to support about 40 different wireless card modelsBetter branding * Bea comes with new artwork: new LiveCD splash, new usplash and GDM screens. * Help is now "one click away". As our community is growing it seemed important that users could find help and support in the easiest possible way. To achieve this Xchat-Gnome was modified to automatically connect to the Linux Mint IRC channel, and Firefox now features Linux Mint bookmarks pointing at the website and forums.Better Web browsingWeb browsing was good in Barbara, but as some of you pointed out, it wasn't good enough: * Realplayer 10 was replaced with the Mplayer plugins so you can now enjoy Quicktime, AVI, MPG and a lot of other web content. * The Flash plugin was upgraded to version 9 Beta 2. * Support for ipv6 was disabled to make your Internet connection and Web browsing faster * Firefox 2.0 was tweaked so that it does go back to the previous page when you press the backspace keyAnd a few surprises... * For those of you who have nvidia cards there's a little surprise in Bea called envy * For those of you who like to mount stuff, PyMou was added to the command line * For those of you who love using Amarok we added support for MusicBrainz tagging * For those of you who need to extract RAR archives we included unrar * For those of you who really like Flash, we included the Flash player * And for those of you who like playing with the terminal, we put a little surprise in there too :)The only thing I had to do was go into add & remove as the GIMP is not installed by default.The sound, DVD player and internet all worked without installing any extra drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 It looks preaty good huh..? let's see , it's debian based , it uses the ( ugh ) ugly gnome window manager , looks like the icons are crystal project , hhmmm what else do i see...Looks alright though.. I wish i knew how to post a screenshot , I would show you how neat looking mine is.... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 It looks preaty good huh..? let's see , it's debian based , it uses the ( ugh ) ugly gnome window manager , looks like the icons are crystal project , hhmmm what else do i see...Looks alright though.. I wish i knew how to post a screenshot , I would show you how neat looking mine is.... :DDownload this freebie Faststone capture whole screen or parts or freehand screen capture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Download this freebie Faststone capture whole screen or parts or freehand screen capture.Ah man , I can't use that , It's a windows executable installer... Nah i need to find out how to capture screenshot in this system.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Jason which distro are you using?, as the two distros I run at the moment are Ubuntu edgy Eft and Linux Mint which are both Debian based.In these to get a screenshot I can either just press the print screen button on the keyboard or right click the taskbar at the top, click add to panel then click on the camera (screenshot) icon and use that to capture the picture.Then I change the file from .png to .jpg.If I need to reduce the size I just open GIMP load the screenshot then save as and it will give you the option (as a slider) to reduce the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Jason which distro are you using?.Freespire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Your program is called KSnapshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 I have no idea how to do it in this , Alt+PntScn does nothing i guess.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 This shows KSnapshot. and on mine it is just the prt scr button on its own without the alt button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Got it... I can't upload the shot..., Can it not be done on dial-up...??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 \\\have you checked the size of the file, if it is too big resize it in GIMP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 \\\have you checked the size of the file, if it is too big resize it in GIMP.I don't have the gimp in this one , I can't seem to install it in this system for some reason... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 For GIMP use either CNR or apt-get.CNR Warehouse > Multimedia & Design > Authoring Tools > GIMPapt-get install gimp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 For GIMP use either CNR or apt-get.CNR Warehouse > Multimedia & Design > Authoring Tools > GIMPapt-get install gimp.Yea i know , I tried: sudo apt-get install gimp but it failed ( or it fails rather ) because of some sort of dependancy problems.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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