On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 14:13:41 +0100 mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 13:40:30 +0100 Huge huge@huge.org.uk allegedly wrote:
On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 13:03 +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
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I've installed Mate and it's up and running albeit with a permanent hourglass and I don't know why - I haven't looked at much yet to find out.
I prefer it to Plasma already but I suspect it will take me time to make it work how I want. I don't for example like the way that a terminal window - any window in fact - opens up at the top of the screen and it doesn't seem possible to drag it away from its home.
Huh? I'm running Mate on Mint 17 and it doesn't behave like that!
Not for me either.
I suggest Chris takes a look at:
Settings -> preferences -> look&feel -> windows -> placement
and System -> Control Centre - look&feel -> compizconfig settings -> window management
I couldn't find those settings within Mageia so have persevered with Plasma. It's not as objectionable as I thought it was and am slowly getting used to it.
In an old issue of the MagPi magazine was an article about customising a linux desktop. So I might take a look at that to see if that helps. I might well experiment with a Pi first though ;-)
I have a couple of other problems now though.
One is the Windows partition. It says it's not been cleanly dismounted and won't mount it. I've switched off the fast-start that Windows seems to like but that hasn't helped. The Windows partition is on a 480GB SSD with the rest of the drive being a data partition. The data partition mounts fine as do all the other drives. So I can't see a reason why linux won't mount it. It doesn't appear to have any errors under Windows chkdsk and if I run fdisk -l here, it doesn't show any errors. What does though is the linux disc itself. That declares 'The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.'
What should I do about that? And how might I overcome the Windows disc problem?
Another one is get_iplayer. The conversion to mp3 fails with libmp3lame not found. If I look at ffmpeg, that doesn't appear to have been compiled with that option whereas on my old machine it does. That has v2.4 whereas this machine has v2.8. Do I really need to compile ffmpeg from source to fix that?
The final one is the keyboard response. It seems to halt for a few second at a time. Just as I'm typing this, the display stops and after a few seconds, the words will appear.
Any ideas what's going on there and where I should start investigating?