I recently switched from Ubuntu since Unity was driving me insane. There are 2 main things I'm looking to change with the default Mint UI:
1. Ubiquity or Adwaitha - I get errors saying that components are not installed, spent half an hour searching for the right packages and came up with nothing. Anyone want to throw me a softball on this one, or recommend a better UI?
2. Getting the start button to bring up the mintMenu. I tried setting the shortcut to <Super_L> and logging out/restarting but I get nothing. I would really like this, I like to keep my hands on the keyboard and off the mouse whenever possible.
jpez wrote:
I recently switched from Ubuntu since Unity was driving me insane. There are 2 main things I'm looking to change with the default Mint UI:
1. Ubiquity or Adwaitha - I get errors saying that components are not installed, spent half an hour searching for the right packages and came up with nothing. Anyone want to throw me a softball on this one, or recommend a better UI?
2. Getting the start button to bring up the mintMenu. I tried setting the shortcut to <Super_L> and logging out/restarting but I get nothing. I would really like this, I like to keep my hands on the keyboard and off the mouse whenever possible.
A lot of this depends on what DE you're using. Care to enlighten us?
"Adwaitha"- do you mean "Adwaita", the default Gnome 3 theme?
seana11 wrote:
jpez wrote:
I recently switched from Ubuntu since Unity was driving me insane. There are 2 main things I'm looking to change with the default Mint UI:
1. Ubiquity or Adwaitha - I get errors saying that components are not installed, spent half an hour searching for the right packages and came up with nothing. Anyone want to throw me a softball on this one, or recommend a better UI?
2. Getting the start button to bring up the mintMenu. I tried setting the shortcut to <Super_L> and logging out/restarting but I get nothing. I would really like this, I like to keep my hands on the keyboard and off the mouse whenever possible.
A lot of this depends on what DE you're using. Care to enlighten us?
He says he's using the default Mint UI; in other words, Gnome 3 plus the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE).
TC01 wrote:
"Adwaitha"- do you mean "Adwaita", the default Gnome 3 theme?
Ah yes, sorry for the typo. Maybe that's what I'm using. All I know is that when I ran the installation CD, there was this absolutely killer UI (Ubiquity maybe?). Once I finished installing and updating, a lot of the guts of that UI seem to have been replaced by the old-style Gnome elements - not that they're terrible, but the original UI looked much more futuristic and awesome.
I haven't tried the default interface but you should give cinnamon a try it is pretty sleek.
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