Text Post: Is this where one would ask for help about Linux? If so I have a question about installing Mint. posted by Saltystew
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  • Saltystew
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    I've never heard of XFCE before. Is it part of Mint? Or a package you install? Or is it another distro entirely?

    • Schwut (edited 9 years ago)
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      Edit: Before you read anything below, if you only want XFCE just download the 17.1 XFCE edition.

      Edit 2: Actually, I wouldn't recommend anything that I said below. I just tried doing this today and it's crashed on me for unknown reasons multiple times. That being said, the Linux Mint 17.1 XFCE edition is great, and I would recommend it. The 17.2 XFCE edition should be coming out soon as well.

      There currently isn't an XFCE edition for Mint 17.2 yet as far as I know. Just use the Cinnamon edition, and then install XFCE by using the following guide: http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/install-xfce-4-12-mint-arch-linux/ This will leave you with both Cinnamon and XFCE, and you can choose between them at the login screen.

      • Saltystew
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        I just tried doing this today and it's crashed on me for unknown reasons multiple times.

        Sounds like me on Mint right now, installed nvidia drivers fianlly, set up dual montiors correctly. Updated all packages and then restarted and now it just crashes constantly and says that mint is in fallback mode. Guess I'll try fixing that later.

      • Schwut
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        @Saltystew -

        What version are you using? 17.2 Cinnamon?

      • Saltystew
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        @Schwut -

        Yeah. Installed it with a usb on my hdd.

      • Schwut
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        @Saltystew -

        What kind of gpu do you have? You should be just been able to use driver manager to get the recommended Nvidia driver instead of using the mamarley ppa.

      • Saltystew
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        @Schwut -

        Nvidia GTX 970. I used the driver manager to begin with and after 10 minutes of being on it I crashed like crazy. Haven't crashed using the new one I got from mamarley ppa.

        I really don't know what the difference is tbh. Maybe I just did something wrong after using the driver manager that messed up the newly installed driver.

      • Schwut
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        @Saltystew -

        That seems really weird. I have a gtx 960 and everything went fine with driver manager.

      • Saltystew
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        @Schwut -

        Well I'm no expert obviously. So it may have just been my fault.

      • Schwut
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        @Saltystew -

        I doubt it's your fault. There isn't much you can mess up with driver manager.

      • Saltystew
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        @Schwut -

        Then I got nothin. Unless there was some update in the package manager that messed it up, because that's all I did after installing the new driver.