{"id":2899,"date":"2015-08-31T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2015-09-08T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:38:23","slug":"monthly-news-august-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2899","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – August 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/strong><\/p>\n

All editions for Linux Mint 17.2 were released and the team is now fully focused on development again.<\/p>\n

Cinnamon was the first project to receive attention. Its power applet now shows vendor and model information<\/a>, box pointers look better<\/a>, and multi-monitor support was further improved: When switching workspaces, the workspace name now appears on all relevant monitors, output names (i.e. plug names) are shown alongside monitor names (in the screenshot below that allows us to distinguish two identical Dell monitors via the name of their display port).<\/p>\n

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Output names are also relevant when using xrandr or in the MDM configuration tool, to tell the login screen what monitor to use, and that’s another area we’ve been focusing on.<\/p>\n

On Segfault, I explained how to manually set up the MDM login screen when using multiple monitors<\/a>. In this development cycle we’ll also consider different ways to automate this configuration or to provide ways to generate it easily.<\/p>\n

We’re also working on other things in Cinnamon and there are exciting plans for the other desktops and cross-desktop tools, but that’s not finished yet so I’ll talk about it another time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

If you’ve been donating to us, sponsoring us or helping us in any way, thank you very very much. This is the time during the release cycle when we make the most of the freedom you’re giving us, with all the releases out, no funding or commercial aspects to worry about, all the equipment we need and a full cycle in front of us. Many thanks to you all. We’ll continue to post about new features and improvements as they get ready.<\/p>\n

Poll of the month:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2013 Linux Mint created a new blog called “Segfault”, dedicated to cover technical news and stories from the development team.<\/p>\n

Here are the reasons why it was separate from the Linux Mint blog:<\/p>\n