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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:04AM   Printer-friendly
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I need to install a new Linux/Gnu OS soon. The present one, Linux Mint (Mate) Debian edition no longer fills my needs. I run 4 screens with 3 X sessions. Mate worked great for this, then an update broke it to one screen. I tried Cinnamon but it won't even start on multiple X sessions. XFCE works but with some serious drawbacks although that may be caused by my current system. Enlightenment actually worked well until it started crashing and I had to restore the settings file. When it finally crashed so nothing got it to run again I gave up on it.

I need a OS with multimedia support, the ability to install programs that may not be in the repositories ( Mythtv ), and multi X screen support. I am also looking for a file manager that has something like Gnome scripts. I have fair command line skills. I presently have Nvidia cards but I will go shopping if I have to. I might try Xinerama but I usually watch one screen while switching the other 2's desktops. Also not having a menu on all screens would be a pain.


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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:04PM (2 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:04PM (#925050) Homepage Journal

    I was focusing on this:

    I run 4 screens with 3 X sessions. Mate worked great for this, then an update broke it to one screen.

    As for Mythtv, the relevant repositories have the latest (v0.30) available, so unless you have specific hacks you need to include in your Mythtv builds, the repositories should work well for you.

    As for copy/pasting between screens, is each screen a different login session/desktop (when it works), or are you sharing all four screens in one desktop session?

    If it's the former, it would make sense that the copy/paste buffers wouldn't be shared, but certainly not in the latter.

    Regardless, having tools/info for troubleshooting is a good thing.

    Even if you're just going to move to another distro, you never know when they might come in handy.

    As an aside, I run Mythtv 0.30 from the RPM Fusion [rpmfusion.org] repositories on Fedora 30 (frontend is Mate, backend doesn't run X) with a frontend using VAAPI [wikipedia.org] support enabled on a Cherry Trail SoC [wikichip.org] which renders 1080p pretty flawlessly via HDMI.

    Fedora Core is *not* an LTS distro, which might be a negative for you, but there are many other distros which do have LTS versions, with both .deb and .rpm package management.

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  • (Score: 2) by pjbgravely on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:36PM (1 child)

    by pjbgravely (1681) <pjbgravelyNO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:36PM (#925102) Homepage
    The update broke Mate the DE, not X, that still worked fine. I did have things that broke X but they are easy to fix. Getting mate to be on more that 2 screens is beyond my abilities, I think they are designing everything for tablets like MS.
    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:43PM

      by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:43PM (#925106) Homepage Journal

      The update broke Mate the DE, not X, that still worked fine. I did have things that broke X but they are easy to fix. Getting mate to be on more that 2 screens is beyond my abilities, I think they are designing everything for tablets like MS.

      I hope you find something that meets your needs.

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