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New features in Linux Mint 15
Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project. MATE 1.6 is greatly improved and Cinnamon 1.8 offers a ton of new features, including a screensaver and a unified control center. The login screen can now be themed in HTML5 and two new tools, "Software Sources" and "Driver Manager", make their first appearance in Linux Mint.
MDM
MDM now features 3 greeters (i.e. login screen applications):
A GTK greeter
A themeable GDM greeter, for which hundreds of themes are available
A brand new HTML greeter, also themeable which supports a new generation of animated and interactive themes
The new HTML greeter supports most Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, Javascript, WebGL and can be used to produce beautiful animated and interactive login screens.
Linux Mint 15 features a collection of GDM and animated HTML themes for MDM, including a WebGL theme called "Clouds GL" which simulates flying in 3D through the clouds
The layout of the GTK greeter was improved, and the GDM greeter is now able to draw frames around text entries if the theme asks for it (this significantly enhances the quality of some of the GDM themes).
MDM received a lot of "under the hood" improvements and bug fixes in the last 6 months.
The MDM configuration tool, mdmsetup, looks better and is more intuitive than before.
Software Sources
A new tool called MintSources, aka "Software Sources", was developed from scratch with derivative distributions in mind (primarily Linux Mint, but also LMDE, Netrunner and Snow Linux). It replaces software-properties-gtk and is perfectly adapted to managing software sources in Linux Mint.
From the main screen you can easily enable or disable optional components and gain access to backports, unstable packages and source code:
You can also switch to a faster mirror with one click of the mouse. The tool performs a speed-test of all available mirrors for you:
MintSources also features PPA, 3rd party repositories and authentication keys management.
A "Maintenance" section provides solutions to common APT problems.
Driver Manager
Another tool was developed for Linux Mint 15: MintDrivers, the "Driver Manager".
MintDrivers relies on the same Ubuntu backend and works the same way as software-properties-gtk. It just looks a bit better:
The "Driver Manager" is an independent application, separate from "Software Sources" and which you can launch straight from the menu.
Drivers are listed by package name, and their version are clearly stated (in the case of the nVidia drivers you can therefore choose according to a particular version instead of wondering what "current" or "updates" really mean).
Devices from popular brands (nVidia, ATI, Broadcom, Samsung...) are illustrated with an icon.
System improvements
Renderer detection
Muffin now checks which renderer is being used. If the session is using a Software Renderer (thatâ™s the case when there is a problem with the drivers or if
the
card doesnâ™t feature any acceleration) a notification pops up to let the user know about the problem.
Fallback mode
Cinnamon no longer uses gnome-session for fallback. In some cases gnome-session didnâ™t allow Cinnamon to run even though the hardware was capable of running Cinnamon. Another limitation of gnome-session was its inability to restart Cinnamon after a crash. In Cinnamon 1.8, the Cinnamon session always launches Cinnamon, so your computer will try to run Cinnamon no matter what.
Cinnamon also uses a wrapper to restart itself and recover from potential crashes. If Cinnamon crashes it now falls back on Metacity and asks the user if he/she wants to restart Cinnamon.
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