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I hope you are enjoying the BETA so far!
This release introduces new features, tools, and artwork, so we anticipate a good number of bug reports. Every single fix helps us refine and improve the final release. Your feedback during the BETA phase is extremely important to us.
Linux Mint 22.1 is our second release based on the 24.04 package base. Some of the updates address long-standing usability issues we had in some of the components we replaced. We’re confident these changes will lead to a very stable release.
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Hello, dear Clem, I thank you and your team very much for the hard work you have done on the best Linux distribution Mint!
Clem, turn the problem in the Nemo file manager to the absence of two very important functions – there is no viewing and editing photo-audio-video files that are located in the properties of the file itself. This function is required for both viewing and editing information about media files – title, album, genre, year, rating, and more. XFCE’s Thunar file manager has had such a feature for a long time and it works out of the box, but Nemo still doesn’t, which is sad.
The second function missing is to put a password on any file, be it a video, a document, or a folder with images. In the same Thunar there is a third-party plugin, it seems called GCryFolder, to put a password on any file.
You should also pay attention to a small slowness in Nemo, when files become several thousand more and sometimes weigh a lot, and sometimes a file manager and even a FileRoller It crashes.
Still, it would not be enough to call the system monitor by clicking on the panel with the right mouse button. And support for fb2, epub, rtf, doc/docx and chm files to be read in xreader.
Thank you so much for working in the convenience of Linux!
Sounds like you are asking for a bunch of plugins, some of which you could write yourself via existing nemo features. As for fb2 or epub files, just open them with one of the many free readers available.
What’s a chm file?
this comment probably belongs here https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=436116 rather than on a post talking about monthly updates.
epub is supported on xreader, I have version 3.2.3 and can read epub files without problem.
For doc/docx, use libreoffice, why would xreader open those? It’s out of scope.
If Thunar uses a plugin for putting password to files, then nemo can do the same, no reason for it to be part of nemo itself.
@Jeremy Boden:
the chm file is an old “extended” html-like format used in the past for help functions or documentation by windows programs (in the windows 95-98 era). So it is a Windows file, now obsoleted. By default it was intended for help (aka wiki) things, but some folks used the format for books, documents also. If you have Wine installed you can open and read them.
XCHM in the repo
Linux Mint is excellent, I’ve been using it as my main system for years.
I’m in Brazil.
A suggestion for version 22.1 is to leave the Start menu floating, detached from the taskbar, like KDE Neon.
It would be very beautiful!
Hugs and congratulations on the excellent system!
Cordial saludo y gracias por crear LinuxMint, la mejor distribución de todas.
Solo quiero exponer la necesidad de mejorar el sistema para compartir archivos desde LM hacia Windows sin necesidad de acudir a trucos y modificaciones del sistema, es decir, que desde el gestor de redes u otra herramienta, se pueda compartir sin tantos traumatismos.
Gracias por tener en cuenta la sugerencia.
He wrote (translated with Google translate):
Kind regards and thanks for creating LinuxMint, the best distribution of all.
I just want to express the need to improve the system for sharing files from LM to Windows without having to resort to tricks and modifications to the system, that is, so that from the network manager or another tool, it can be shared without so many traumas.
Thanks for taking the suggestion into account.
to share files on demand, you can use Warpinator… it was invented by Linux Mint devs and comes preinstalled, bur also has windows and smartphone versions by the community
to sync folders you can use the crossplatform FOSS software Syncthing
to keep a shared folder in the local network Linux Mint does offer a GUI in Nemo to help configure Samba/SMB sharing by right-clicking a folder and choosing a folder sharing menu item… windows can understand those as network folders just fine… the GUI already explains the necessary preparations (eg: it detects and asks you to install the samba lib, and iirc mentions you need to use a specific command to define your samba sharing password which isn’t your user’s system login password)… it could maybe use GUI for 100% those things instead of offering instrucions to CLI for one or two of them, but at least this UI/UX has been improving steadily and has become reliable to set up (unlike NFS in my experience, and shared folders from windows, which became a GUI fragmentation and miscommunication minefield last I checked)
@Jeremy Boden
chm == Compiled HTML
Hi Clem and all
Can the live version of the beta play DVDs? On my Windows PC – my only computer with a DVD drive – I’m having trouble playing DVDs Ithough CDs work), so I thought I’d boot Linux and see whether that worked. It seems not to, though. Might that be because the ‘live’ mode itself, when booted from USB, pretends that it boots from CD?
Thanks.
If I read https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia.php I see:
DVD Playback with VLC
If VLC does not find your DVD player, click on Media->Open Disc, and specify ‘/dev/sr0’ as the disc device.
Don’t know if that helps though.
JL – I’ve just checked the liveISO on USB, and the default Celluloid does play DVD as normal. You may have a failling drive. Good luck with it.
ebay has as many DVD drives as you want some less then 5 bucks
Might I respond here to those who commented on my post? (I seem unable to reply directly to the responses.)
* My thanks to those respondents!
* I should have found the point about VLC in the release notes.
* Various things suggest I do have a a failing drive or at least one that cannot play newer discs. (I find that, on Windows anyway, it can read CDs.) I think it is the second drive by TSST that has gone bad on me; and TSST – seemingly a kind of alliance between Toshiba and Samsung – seems not to exist anymore, though a website that looks like an _impersonation_ does exist. I’ll replace the drive with a different make. (I might go for Asus.)
Yes VLC does that on Linuxmint 22.1 I bought a separate DVD player that works on it from Walmart. Its called LG Ultra Slim Portable DVD Writer. Its plays every kind of Cd’s and DVD’s. $30.00 US.
Could you provide updated translation packages, please? I updated the Hungarian translations.
Köszönjük!
I first installed the XFCE beta, then added the Mate DE with the mint-meta-mate package.
If I try to install the mint-meta-cinnamon, I’m told that pipewire will be removed and pulseaudio will be installed.
I didn’t go further.
Is this a bug in xia’s mint-meta-cinnamon, or it was decided to drop the switch to pipewire and stay with pulseaudio?
The bug was found by Clem and fixed now, for those wondering.
He wrote:
Ok, I think it’s to do with cinnamon-settings-daemon recommending pulseaudio.
Thanks Clem, and it worked, I was able to install mint-meta-cinnamon over XFCE and it worked great this time.
Hi everybody,I left this minor issue on Git Hub but it has disappeared.part of the startup chime is missing since 20.3 still same in 22,1 ,had to replace startup file from an older version.just a niggle I know but makes me wonder if other errors have crept in unnoticed. P,S, I am using LMDE6 on all my machines now and it is best ever ,rock stable,definately the way forward
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Just a quick note to thank Clem and The Team for all their hard work throughout the year, and to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year
I will second that!
Season’s Greetings and Thank You to everyone who provides us with Mint, a first-class OS.
FYI, for some reason this post hasn’t made its way to “latest news” section of the the main website.
Very good work as usual,
Much love !
mint 22.1 beta is working on a very old 2007 advent laptop with 2 GB of DDR2 – the max it can have.
To Gerry,
No it don’t.
Personally I would rather choose GDM3 instead of Lightdm…
GDM3 is independent of Ubuntu and it comes from Gnome just like Cinnnamon. As far as I am concerned I find that GDM3 integrates much better with Cinnamon versus Lightdm.
Best regards.
Dear Clem,
I’m having crackling sound issues with all sound on my system since getting the last few kernel upgrades and have tried all of the “tutorials” for fixing them that I could find online without any improvement. My current version of pipewire is 1.0.5, and the pipewire project version is now 1.2.7. Unfortunately it appears that you can only get the latest version to work by compiling it yourself. I hope that you can release version 1.2.7 of pipewire in your next version of Linuxmint 22.1. That would be immensely appreciated!
Hi Clem and Team and Contributors
I just discovered something that I think is vital to the quality of usability to all linux – especially Mint. Color Range. This is available in the default drivers of plasma. It gets lost if nvidia drivers are installed as does most of the other nvidia settings when using wayland.
However, setting full color range is not an option in the GUI of Cinnamon (X11) but it is possible to use xrandr to enable full range.; WHAT A DIFFERENCE!
This option needs to be in all desktop GUIs.
Not available with VGA connected monitors if understand well?
Hi have loved using Linux Mint for years, however in it would be really nice to have a visible button in the toolbar for “extra pane”. This would be extremely handy.