Desktop Environment

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS released

Martin Wimpress recently announced the release of Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS which has been in development for nearly 2 years. This latest release features the latest MATE desktop environment, and support for Ubuntu Snappy command-line package manager.  Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS Update: Added ubuntu-snappy-cli to the default install. Updated Ubuntu MATE Welcome to 16.04.9. Updated translations and assorted bugs fixes Updated to install Telegram from a PPA maintained by Martin Wimpress that has fixes Indicator icons.

Cinnamon 2.8 released and will be featured in Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa”

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Window list</strong> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> The window list is now able to show window thumbnails. This is configurable and it can be disabled in the applet preferences if you would rather just see tooltips. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> Click <a href="http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/11/cinnamon-2-8-released/" target="_blank">here</a> for full details </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Cinnamon 2.8 on Linux Mint</strong></span> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly sudo apt-get update

Next Generation of Lightweight DE – LXQt 0.7.0

The inclusion of PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE’s desktop and file manager An all-new modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps Several improvements to the system settings along with the inclusion of screens management, keyboard settings and file associations Improvements to cursor and appearance settings Improved support for systemd-based setups Ongoing work on Qt 5 compatibility. Most of our components already build on Qt 5!