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Whether it’s donations, sponsorships, bug reports, ideas, PRs, community support or even just good vibes, it’s all really appreciated! Many thanks to all of you.

Improved support for keyboard layouts and IM

The next version of Cinnamon will feature improved support for keyboard layouts and input methods.

In the past, the keyboard settings and the keyboard applet only really handled traditional layouts.

Going forward, traditional layouts and IBus input methods will be presented in the keyboard settings alongside each other, as if they were the same.

In this screenshot you can see a list of two layouts. One is a traditional XKB layout: French accents on a US ANSI layout. The other is actually an IBus input method: Japanese, using the Mozc engine.

 

The keyboard applet also supports both types of layouts and all the features required by IBus:

Wayland support

Under the hood, the Cinnamon keyboard handling relied on libgnomekbd and only worked in Xorg.

This meant that Cinnamon under Wayland could only be used with an English (US) layout.

This new support is fully compatible with Wayland for both traditional layouts and IBus input methods.

On-screen keyboard

The on-screen keyboard (OSK) will no longer rely on libcaribou but be implemented natively by Cinnamon.

This brings IM support and layout switch in the OSK itself.

We took the opportunity to make it look better.

 

New menu

The Cinnamon application menu was redesigned and given a new layout.

It features a sidebar with sections for your avatar, places and favorite applications.

The system buttons were moved to the top on the right of the search bar.

In the applications section, the description appears underneath the app name.

The category section was made smaller and less noticeable to keep more focus on the apps.

In the preferences it is possible to hide some of the elements to make the menu smaller or to dedicate the sidebar to only show places, bookmarks or favorite apps.

Special directories are treated individually and separately from other bookmarks.

The categories can use fullcolor icons like they did in the past.

Here’s an example with larger icons in the sidebar and categories:

And here’s an example with no sidebar at all:

 

The code for the menu applet was refactored and modernized for easier maintenance.

The keyboard navigation and refresh mechanisms in particular were greatly simplified.

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This is the BETA release for LMDE 7 “Gigi”.

LMDE 7 Gigi

LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is also one of our development targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.

LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead.

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 LMDE 7”

System requirements:

• 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
• 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
• 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

• This BETA release might contain critical bugs, please only use it for testing purposes and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release.
• It will be possible to upgrade from this BETA to the stable release.
• Upgrade instructions will be published after the stable release.

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Enjoy!

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LMDE 7

Work started on LMDE 7, codename Gigi.

The goal for this release is to bring the following features together:

• A Debian 13 package base
• The improvements which shipped with Linux Mint 22.2
• Support for OEM installations

The OEM support was already implemented during the Mint 22.2 development cycle, so we were able to progress really fast on this. It’s now been tested in real conditions on top of the new package base and it’s working very well.

The new Mint 22.2 features were also ported to LMDE 7.

We’re adapting the libadwaita-1.5 changes to libadwaita-1.7 and re-applying patches at the moment.

Note that i386 is no longer fully supported upstream by Debian 13 so LMDE 7 will only ship for amd64.

The BETA for LMDE 7 will be released this September.

Linux Mint 22.3

Although the latest release came later than expected and we’re currently focused on LMDE 7, we’re still planning on having a Mint 22.3 release in December.

This is going to be a very short release cycle. The priority will be the new version of Cinnamon and shipping some of the important WIP (work in progress / planned features) which were started earlier this year:

• The new menu
• The status applet
• The Wayland-compatible handling for keyboard layouts and input methods

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