Product Details
Introduction
This is a release candidate of the Fluxbox Community Edition for
Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa. This release has been built from the
ground up based on the Ubuntu Hardy repositories with the emphasis on a
lightweight and yet fully functional desktop centered on the Fluxbox
window manager.
mint-mfm: The most radical feature of Linux Mint Fluxbox CE is the
auto-generated and auto-updating Fluxbox menu! Simply put, gone are the
days when using Fluxbox meant you had to manually build/edit your menu.
Installing or uninstalling, mint-mfm will take care of the menu for
you! However, if you still wish to manually edit your menu, you can,
and your modifications will remain intact through menu updates. You can
even enable or disable menu icons with a click of a button in
mintDesktop! Credit goes to Sayan of the March Linux project for the
core of mint-mfm.
Full Desktop Environment functionality: Linux Mint Fluxbox CE tries
to strike an ideal balance between low resource usage and GUI
functionality. Hence, GUI tools have been included wherever possible to
give an experience to match a full blown Desktop Environment such as
Gnome or XFCE.
Minty Goodness: The Linux Mint specific applications you have come
to know and love are all included.
- mintInstall
- mintWifi
- mintUpdate
- mintAssistant
- mintUpload
- mintBackup
- mintConfig
- mintDesktop
Multimedia compatibility: As you have now come to expect from a
Linux Mint release, Linux Mint Fluxbox CE comes with all available
codecs and plugins preinstalled so that you can enjoy your media out of
the box be it on your machine or online.
Thunar custom actions: Many custom actions have been added to make
the use of Linux Mint Fluxbox CE a more pleasant affair.
- md5sum-mint: A simple tool for quick and easy calculation of MD5
Checksums
- Simple printing of files
- Folder sharing over Samba
- Upload to the mintUpload service
- Archiving
- Browsing as root
- Searching in a specified location
- Easy installation of True Type fonts
- Easy creation of symbolic links
Better language/localization support: With the Elyssa family of
Linux Mint releases, language support has been a major focus. All Mint
tools were internationalized and are being actively translated by the
community.
Look and feel: Attractive themes have been chosen to give this
release a sharp and pleasant look with a predominant green bias.
- Fluxbox style: modified MurrinaFlux style (by Hund)
- GTK theme: custom MurrinaMintFB theme using the Murrina engine
- Icon theme: Delta Green (by rodofr)
- Backgrounds and GDM themes: Elyssa defaults (by Jernau)
- Sound theme from the Ubuntu repositories
Minimal resource usage with maximal functionality and stability is
what decided the selection of software bundled with Linux Mint Fluxbox
CE.
Internet:
- Firefox 3 web browser
- Pidgin instant messenger
- Sylpheed mail client
- Transmission bittorrent client
- Wicd network manager
- XChat IRC client
- Chestnut dialer for dialup connections
- GPRS EasyConnect for GPRS connections
Office:
- Abiword word processor
- Gnumeric spreadsheet application
- Orage calendar application
Multimedia:
- Mplayer movie player
- Media Player Daemon with Gnome Media Player Client
- Brasero disc burning application
- Grip audio ripper
Graphics:
- The GIMP
- GPicView image viewer
Accessories:
- Thunar file manager
- Mousepad text editor
- XFCE4 Terminal emulator
- Tilda terminal emulator
- Catfish search tool
- XFCE print tools
- FuseSMB tools for file sharing
System tools:
- Gnome System Monitor
- Conky system monitor
- Synaptic package manager
- EnvyNG for easy installation of NVIDIA and ATI graphic card
drivers
- Bluetooth-gnome
- A selection of XFCE and Gnome tools
Media Player Daemon (MPD) is set up by default to include the user's
~/Music directory in its library. In order to play music with Gnome
Media Player Client (GMPC) you will have to copy your music collection
to your ~/Music directory or create a symbolic link to your collection
in your ~/Music directory. Then right-click on 'Browse Filesystem' in
GMPC and click 'Update'. The MPD library will update and your
collection will now be available in GMPC. MPD will not play files not
included in the library. For this, use Mplayer movie player.
The default key mappings for Fluxbox has been setup as follows:
- Alt+Tab = Next window
- Alt+Shift+Tab = Previous window
- Alt+1/2/3/4 = Brings up the respective workspace
- Ctrl+M = Brings up the menu
- Alt+F4 = Closes the current window
Hopefully this will make transitioning to Fluxbox for new users more
trouble free.
Enabling or disabling menu icons for the menu will delete the
current menu and regenerate a new one. Any custom changes made to the
auto-generated section of the menu will be lost.
On Quiting, Shutdown, Reboot, Suspend and Hibernate will prompt the
user for an admin password. In order to disable this, grant the user
privileges in sudoers to run shutdown with no password.
