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I am still running Mint 13 Maya LTS for now, and I don't really want to go stray from the LTS, but their work with Cinnamon is really tempting me. If they have

by hdra 13y ago

I am still running Mint 13 Maya LTS for now, and I don't really want to go stray from the LTS, but their work with Cinnamon is really tempting me. If they have put in windows tiling and the ability to dock the panel to the right, I would switch right away.

jckt 13y ago
Same here. Well, it can't be any-old tiling mechanism, but nonetheless I'd be willing to try. Currently use awesome, though, which by and large is quite good. Do you use a tiling UI right now? I do somehow prefer a more "mainstream" UI though, just because devs don't tend to think about awesome users (users of awesome, that is, and other minority UIs), and certain things just don't and probably will never work that well in awesome.
- hdra 13y ago
  Not currently. I have some scripts bound to some hotkeys to emulate tiling, but it was all hardcoded x/y position and dimension.
lsiebert 13y ago
I have tiling in cinnamon with gtile. Have you tried installing it? For me the mint community has been a big difference. I have gotten great text support on irc from volunteers, much better than I got with Ubuntu in various places online, where people seem to be swamped with new and clueless users. I am worried that unity integration will become fully incompatible with the gnome backend, making cinnamon as a de problematic. But so far so good. Though I am also experimenting with getting fbterm and potentially tmux to play nice when I boot to text console and just ignore the DE altogether for some serious power savings. tmux seems to not allow fbterm to use its 256 color capabilities though. But I have digress. Ultimately I feel like mint has a lot going for it. Some of the design decisions are not quite what I would do, but the mint team has been awesome about working with other distributions/forks, and even collaboration on shared components.
- jmhain 13y ago
  +1 for gtile. Makes gnome shell worth using.
lsiebert 13y ago
I have tiling in cinnamon with gtile. Have you tried installing it? For me the mint community has been a big difference. I have gotten great text support on irc from volunteers, much better than I got with Ubuntu in various places online, where people seem to be swamped with new and clueless users. I am worried that unity integration will become fully incompatible with the gnome backend, making cinnamon as a de problematic. But so far so good. Though I am also experimenting with getting fbterm and potentially tmux to play nice when I boot to text console and just ignore the DE altogether for some serious power savings. tmux seems to not allow fbterm to use its 256 color capabilities though. But I have digress. Ultimately I feel like mint has a lot going for it. Some of the design decisions are not quite what I would do, but the mint team has been awesome about working with other distributions/forks, and even collaboration on shared components.
lsiebert 13y ago
I have tiling in cinnamon with gtile. Have you tried installing it? For me the mint community has been a big difference. I have gotten great text support on irc from volunteers, much better than I got with Ubuntu in various places online, where people seem to be swamped with new and clueless users. I am worried that unity integration will become fully incompatible with the gnome backend, making cinnamon as a de problematic. But so far so good. Though I am also experimenting with getting fbterm and potentially tmux to play nice when I boot to text console and just ignore the DE altogether for some serious power savings. tmux seems to not allow fbterm to use its 256 color capabilities though. But I have digress. Ultimately I feel like mint has a lot going for it. Some of the design decisions are not quite what I would do, but the mint team has been awesome about working with other distributions/forks, and even collaboration on shared components.
lsiebert 13y ago
Try gtile. Cinnamon tiling. Or pseudo tiling since it isn't fully keyboard driven. Still worth checking out.

by hdra 13y ago

jckt 13y ago

Same here. Well, it can't be any-old tiling mechanism, but nonetheless I'd be willing to try. Currently use awesome, though, which by and large is quite good. Do you use a tiling UI right now? I do somehow prefer a more "mainstream" UI though, just because devs don't tend to think about awesome users (users of awesome, that is, and other minority UIs), and certain things just don't and probably will never work that well in awesome.

hdra 13y ago
Not currently. I have some scripts bound to some hotkeys to emulate tiling, but it was all hardcoded x/y position and dimension.

lsiebert 13y ago

I have tiling in cinnamon with gtile. Have you tried installing it? For me the mint community has been a big difference. I have gotten great text support on irc from volunteers, much better than I got with Ubuntu in various places online, where people seem to be swamped with new and clueless users. I am worried that unity integration will become fully incompatible with the gnome backend, making cinnamon as a de problematic. But so far so good. Though I am also experimenting with getting fbterm and potentially tmux to play nice when I boot to text console and just ignore the DE altogether for some serious power savings. tmux seems to not allow fbterm to use its 256 color capabilities though. But I have digress. Ultimately I feel like mint has a lot going for it. Some of the design decisions are not quite what I would do, but the mint team has been awesome about working with other distributions/forks, and even collaboration on shared components.

jmhain 13y ago
+1 for gtile. Makes gnome shell worth using.

lsiebert 13y ago

Try gtile. Cinnamon tiling. Or pseudo tiling since it isn't fully keyboard driven. Still worth checking out.