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Hi everyone,

I hope you enjoyed the release of Linux Mint 19.2. It all went really well here, we got very good feedback during the BETA phase and that allowed us to fix a significant number of bugs. The stable release was very well received. It was great to see you happy, and we really enjoyed your comments, in particular about the speed and resource usage improvements in Cinnamon.

With the stable release behind us, the upgrade path opened and the new packages ported towards LMDE 3, we started work on Linux Mint 19.3. This next release is planned for Christmas, so our development cycle is quite short and we need to move fast.

Let’s have a look at some of the upcoming improvements.

Language Settings

Along with the locale and the region, the Language settings tool will let you set your time format.

HiDPI Support

HiDPI is supported in Cinnamon and in MATE and it’s getting better with each new release. A couple of icons and images were still blurry in HiDPI in Linux Mint 19.2. Here’s what we’re fixing:

• Flags in the Language settings
• Flags in the Software Sources tool
• Flags in the Cinnamon screensaver
• Theme preview images in the Cinnamon theme settings

All of these will be crisp in Linux Mint 19.3.

System Tray Icons

We also looked at Gtk.StatusIcon, which is the technology used by the system tray icons. They’re not only blurry in HiDPI, they have a significant number of problems:

• They were designed with 16px icons in mind
• They are rendered by the application, not by the applet
• They rely on obsolete technology such as Gtk.Plug and Gtk.Socket which won’t be around in the future or compatible with what’s coming next (Gtk4, Wayland etc..)

This is something that isn’t supported by GNOME and which we’re lucky to still have in GTK3. Without exageration I think it’s quite a miracle we even managed to have this in Cinnamon.

The way this works is also  extremely buggy. The icon widget is rendered by the application, so the panel applet has no control over it. It can’t resize it properly, it can’t parse its icon name or switch the icon to symbolic, and depending on how the app sets its icon, when and how, we can sometimes end up with rendering issues… invisible icons, cropped icons, wrongly sized icons or icons which can’t get bigger than 16px. It’s a mess and it’s been working really poorly since the start of Cinnamon (think of Pidgin as an example) and also quite poorly in other desktops (take Skype for instance). So for a while now, we knew we needed to support tray icons, but we also knew Gtk.StatusIcon was going to die eventually and just didn’t work well enough as it was.

Ubuntu developed an interesting alternative called AppIndicator which solved these issues but which also introduced new ones. Indicators don’t support some of the features available with Gtk.StatusIcons, so moving applications towards them means redesigning the way we use them and making compromises we don’t want to make. For instance, we like to show and hide the Update Manager window by left-clicking on its tray icon. We also want to be able to build complex menus (MPRIS controls for instance) within our applications, so it was important we kept these features and the ability for applications to popup their own menu.

We wrote an alternative to Gtk.StatusIcon called XApp.StatusIcon which similarly to AppIndicator uses dbus to pass the information over to applets and let them render the tray icon, tooltip and optional label natively. This means no more rendering issues, and crisp icons in all sizes.

We also passed click events from the applet over dbus back to the app. This means the app can connect to events and react to buttons being pressed and/or released any way it wants.

We made a standalone applet and a Cinnamon applet to get started and we’ll make applets for MATE and Xfce next.

We also made App.StatusIcon detect the presence of applets and implemented a fallback mechanism to guarantee this works in other desktops. If no applet is present, the icon transparently falls back to a Gtk.StatusIcon, so without having to care about it, the app shows an icon in any environment compatible with Gtk.StatusIcon.

If you’re writing an app using a tray icon and you’re interested in this, don’t hesitate to contact us. This is part of XApp, a project which is aimed at all GTK environments, cross-desktop and cross-distribution.

We’re interested in making this as simple and as compatible as possible. Here’s a quick video showing how easy it can be to migrate an app to it:

So far we ported the Update Manager (mintupdate), the Upload Manager (mintupload) and the Bluetooth settings (blueberry). These ports are available on Github and in the daily builds PPA.

Update Manager Tray Icon

Since we’re talking about tray icons, we’re aware of a random rendering issue in Linux Mint 19.2 and LMDE 3 which affects the Update Manager tray icon. On the first login, the icon can sometime be invisible or cropped.

This is a problem which typically affect Cinnamon and Gtk.StatusIcons. Migrating the Update Manager to a XApp.StatusIcon will solve this problem in Linux Mint 19.3, but for the time being we need a simple fix.

We’re preparing builds and analyzing this issue. If you’re affected by it, please help gather feedback and test the builds we provide at https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/8771.

MintBox 3

Compulab is working hard on the MintBox 3. To emphasize the fact that these computers are unique and give them a premium feel, we invested in a diamond cut aluminum logo on the face plate.

Three specifications will be available, featuring Intel, AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. We’re really excited and we can’t wait to get our hands on the first unit.

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It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 19 (or 19.1) to version 19.2.

If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience.

1. Create a system snapshot

You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade.

If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your operating system to its previous state.

Launch Timeshift from the application menu, follow the instructions on the screen to configure it and create a system snapshot.

2. Prepare for the upgrade

• Disable your screensaver
• If you installed Cinnamon spices (applets, desklets, extensions, themes), upgrade them from the System Settings

3. Upgrade the operating system

Upgrading to Linux Mint 19.2 is relatively easy.

In the Update Manager, click on the Refresh button to check for any new version of mintupdate and mint-upgrade-info. If there are updates for these packages, apply them.

Launch the System Upgrade by clicking on “Edit->Upgrade to Linux Mint 19.2 Tina”.

Follow the instructions on the screen.

If asked whether to keep or replace configuration files, choose to replace them.

4. Add/remove packages (optional, for Linux Mint 19 users)

P7zip-full (which provides the ability to create password-encrypted archives) and xul-ext-lightning (Calendar support in Thunderbird) were added to Linux Mint 19.1. To install these packages, open a terminal and type:

apt install p7zip-full xul-ext-lightning

If you are running the Cinnamon edition, you can also remove the XScreensaver hacks. These are no longer supported by the Cinnamon screensaver. To remove them, open a terminal and type:

apt remove --purge xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra cinnamon-screensaver-webkit-plugin cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin

5. Reboot the computer

Once the upgrade is finished, reboot your computer.

Commonly asked questions

• If the upgrade is not available to you, check that you have the latest versions of mintupdate and mint-upgrade-info installed and restart the Update Manager. If the latest versions are not yet available in your mirrors, switch to the default repositories.
• This happens rarely, but if you ever got locked and were unable to log back in, switch to console with CTRL+ALT+F1, log in, and type “killall cinnamon-screensaver” (or “killall mate-screensaver” in MATE). Use CTRL+ALT+F7 or CTRL+ALT+F8 to get back to your session.

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Xfce Edition.

Linux Mint 19.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2023. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features:

This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.

For an overview of the new features please visit:

“What’s new in Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce“.

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

“Release Notes for Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce”

System requirements:

• 1GB RAM (2GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
• 15GB of disk space (20GB recommended).
• 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Notes:

• The 64-bit ISO can boot with BIOS or UEFI.
• The 32-bit ISO can only boot with BIOS.
• The 64-bit ISO is recommended for all modern computers (Almost all computers sold since 2007 are equipped with 64-bit processors).

Upgrade instructions:

Announcements will be made shortly with instructions on how to upgrade from Linux Mint 19 or Linux Mint 19.1.

If you are running the BETA use the Update Manager to apply available updates.

Download links:

Here are the download links for the 64-bit ISO:

• Torrent https://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-19.2-xfce-64bit.iso.torrent
• World EvoWise CDN
• World LayerOnline
• Canada Manitoba Unix User Group
• Canada The Free Mirror Project
• Canada University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
• USA advancedhosters.com
• USA Clarkson University
• USA GigeNET
• USA Harvard School of Engineering
• USA James Madison University
• USA kernel.org
• USA MetroCast Cablevision
• USA pair Networks
• USA Syringa Networks
• USA TDS Telecom
• USA Team Cymru
• USA University of Oklahoma
• USA University of Washington, Mathematics
• USA US Internet
• USA West Virginia University
• USA XMission Internet
• Austria UPC Austria
• Belarus ByFly
• Bulgaria IPACCT
• Bulgaria Netix Ltd
• Bulgaria Telepoint
• Bulgaria University of Ruse
• Czech Republic Brno University of Technology
• Czech Republic CZ.NIC
• Czech Republic Ignum, s.r.o.
• Czech Republic IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center
• Czech Republic UPC Ceska republika
• Denmark Dotsrc.org
• France Crifo.org
• France Ordimatic
• France remi.lu
• Germany Be a Lama, Inc.
• Germany FH Aachen
• Germany Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Germany GWDG
• Germany Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
• Germany NetCologne GmbH
• Germany wilhelm.tel GmbH
• Greece Hellenic Telecommunications Organization
• Greece MyAegean team, University of the Aegean
• Greece National Technical University of Athens
• Greece University of Crete
• Greenland Tele Greenland
• Hungary Quantum Mirror
• Ireland HEAnet
• Latvia University of Latvia
• Luxembourg root S.A.
• Netherlands KoDDoS
• Netherlands NLUUG
• Netherlands Triple IT
• Poland ICM – University of Warsaw
• Poland Onet
• Poland Piotrkosoft
• Portugal FCCN
• Portugal RNL – Técnico Lisboa
• Portugal Universidade do Porto
• Romania M247
• Romania Telekom Romania
• Russia Truenetwork
• Russia Yandex Team
• Serbia Four Dots
• Serbia University of Kragujevac
• Slovakia Energotel
• Slovakia Rainside
• Spain Oficina de Software Libre do Cixug
• Sweden Academic Computer Club, Umea University
• Sweden c0urier.net
• Sweden Zetup
• Turkey Linux Kullanicilari Dernegi
• Ukraine IP-Connect LLC
• United Kingdom Bytemark Hosting
• United Kingdom UKFast
• United Kingdom University of Kent UK Mirror Service
• Bangladesh dhakaCom Limited
• Bangladesh XeonBD
• China TUNA
• China University of Science and Technology of China Linux User Group
• Hong Kong KoDDoS
• Iran Hostiran Networks
• Israel Israel Internet Association
• Kazakhstan PS Internet Company LLC
• South Korea KAIST
• Taiwan NCHC
• Taiwan Yuan Ze University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Thailand adminbannok.com
• Thailand Kasetsart University
• Thailand Songkla University
• Vietnam Freedif
• Australia AARNet
• Australia Internode
• Australia Western Australian Internet Association
• New Caledonia OFFRATEL LAGOON
• New Zealand University of Canterbury
• Brazil Federal University of Sao Carlos
• Brazil Universidade Federal do Parana
• Colombia EDATEL
• Ecuador CEDIA
• Ecuador CEDIA Ecuador
• Ecuador Escuela Politecnica Natcional
• Ecuador Universidad Central del Ecuador
• Botswana Retention Range
• Kenya Liquid Telecom
• South Africa Internet Solutions
• South Africa University of Free State
• South Africa WIRUlink

A 32-bit ISO image is also available at https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php.

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

• Please read and follow the steps at https://linuxmint.com/verify.php
• Link to the sums: sha256sum.txt
• Link to the signed sums: sha256sum.txt.gpg

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!