Linux Mint 13 “Maya” XFCE Released – 306 days old

[Grogan]

How about, when it detects a web cam?

I should bite the bullet and do my netbook... maybe Sunday if I don't have to go anywhere. I can't really mess with it during the week because I may need it for jobs. (e.g. I never know when I'm really done for the day)

[Dark Angel]

It picked up the web cam in my Eee during install, but for some reason it didn't work right when it cam to setting up the login picture. I had to take another pic (pretty much any format was good enough) and call it .face in my home directory, but then I also had to put one with my user name in a "faces" directory somewhere as well for t to pik things up for some reason.
I used this:michael.jpg

[ZemaTalon]

Hehehe that came out pretty good

[[ GK ]]

Hey Mike, I also made use of most of your settings, so thanks!

Here's a look at my desktop. It's a work in progress.

[ZemaTalon]

We have another convert! Looks good GK

[ZemaTalon]

I finally finished up configuring my netbook. Besides the visual tweaks I set it up for conservative resource use, with zero composting, no wallpaper or screensaver changing, and no screensaver at all, just power management off for the screen after 40 mins. I set up the bottom panel with everything I thought I might need, except network drive access, I couldn't get that to work from a panel launcher, and I do use that.



With the bottom panel set to auto-hide, and no icons on the screen, it's a pretty clean desktop:



There, it should be good for the next five years I think

[Grogan]

Indeed, it looks great. I didn't get around to doing mine yet. Too lazy

[Dark Angel]

I've been happily running this on my netbook now for a while and decided to try the Chromium package in the repos.
Damn! On this limited memory machine (AMD C50 dual core 1GHz, 1GB RAM, integrated Raedon graphics) this browser HONKS!
I may end up doing a local kernel compile because ... well, because I can. There's no real reason to, it just amuses me to do so. Probably take all night, too.
Anyway, Firefox on this is a little laggy but not too bad overall. Chromium is just plain better in every way I've tried since installing it.

[ZemaTalon]

That's what I've mostly been using on it too, along with Chrome

[Grogan]

If compiling a custom kernel for this latest crop of Mint/*buntu, and you want it to boot:

devtmpfs.gif

[Dark Angel]

I did one on my desktop, using an initrd (make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers) but vanilla source and it boots fine. I don't remember, though, if that setting was checked or not.

[Grogan]

Yes it is, in their config.

I move those out of /boot before I configure a kernel, otherwise I'm going to have to go through every menu and deselect almost everything. Sometimes it takes a few passes to get other dependencies turned off first, before you can even turn shit off, to make it worse. The whole point of compiling a custom kernel is to optimize, reduce and remove the need for an initrd, to me.

[Dark Angel]

Ok. I'm just starting with a make oldconfig, playing with a few settings like the processor type, number of cores and maybe the right vga drivers, and then building. I could go through and whittle it down to nothing but the exact modules that I need, but I don't have the time to really play with it. I'm sure your kernels are far more efficient than mine, but that last 1% on this little thing isn't going to make much difference to my user experience. Maybe between semesters I might try for a high efficiency compile, just not right now.