Linux Mint 5 Elyssa - Fluxbox Community Edition

New features



mint-mfm: The most radical feature of Linux Mint Fluxbox CE is the auto-generated and auto-updating Fluxbox menu! Simply put, gone are the days when using Fluxbox meant you had to manually build/edit your menu. Installing or uninstalling, mint-mfm will take care of the menu for you! However, if you still wish to manually edit your menu, you can, and your modifications will remain intact through menu updates. You can even enable or disable menu icons with a click of a button in mintDesktop! Credit goes to Sayan of the March Linux project for the core of mint-mfm.



Full Desktop Environment functionality: Linux Mint Fluxbox CE tries to strike an ideal balance between low resource usage and GUI functionality. Hence, GUI tools have been included wherever possible to give an experience to match a full blown Desktop Environment such as Gnome or XFCE.



Minty Goodness: The Linux Mint specific applications you have come to know and love are all included.



* mintInstall

* mintWifi

* mintUpdate

* mintAssistant

* mintUpload

* mintBackup

* mintConfig

* mintDesktop



Multimedia compatibility: As you have now come to expect from a Linux Mint release, Linux Mint Fluxbox CE comes with all available codecs and plugins preinstalled so that you can enjoy your media out of the box be it on your machine or online.



Thunar custom actions: Many custom actions have been added to make the use of Linux Mint Fluxbox CE a more pleasant affair.



* md5sum-mint: A simple tool for quick and easy calculation of MD5 Checksums

* Simple printing of files

* Folder sharing over Samba

* Upload to the mintUpload service

* Archiving

* Browsing as root

* Searching in a specified location

* Easy installation of True Type fonts

* Easy creation of symbolic links



Better language/localization support: With the Elyssa family of Linux Mint releases, language support has been a major focus. All Mint tools were internationalized and are being actively translated by the community.



Look and feel: Attractive themes have been chosen to give this release a sharp and pleasant look with a predominant green bias.



* Fluxbox style: modified MurrinaFlux style (by Hund)

* GTK theme: custom MurrinaMintFB theme using the Murrina engine

* Icon theme: Delta Green (by rodofr)

* Backgrounds and GDM themes: Elyssa defaults (by Jernau)

* Sound theme from the Ubuntu repositoriesDefault software selection



Minimal resource usage with maximal functionality and stability is what decided the selection of software bundled with Linux Mint Fluxbox CE.



Internet:



* Firefox 3 web browser

* Pidgin instant messenger

* Sylpheed mail client

* Transmission bittorrent client

* Wicd network manager

* XChat IRC client

* Chestnut dialer for dialup connections

* GPRS EasyConnect for GPRS connections



Office:



* Abiword word processor

* Gnumeric spreadsheet application

* Orage calendar application



Multimedia:



* Mplayer movie player

* Media Player Daemon with Gnome Media Player Client

* Brasero disc burning application

* Grip audio ripper



Graphics:



* The GIMP

* GPicView image viewer



Accessories:



* Thunar file manager

* Mousepad text editor

* XFCE4 Terminal emulator

* Tilda terminal emulator

* Catfish search tool

* XFCE print tools

* FuseSMB tools for file sharing



System tools:



* Gnome System Monitor

* Conky system monitor

* Synaptic package manager

* EnvyNG for easy installation of NVIDIA and ATI graphic card drivers

* Bluetooth-gnome

* A selection of XFCE and Gnome toolsImportant information



Media Player Daemon (MPD) is set up by default to include the user's ~/Music directory in its library. In order to play music with Gnome Media Player Client (GMPC) you will have to copy your music collection to your ~/Music directory or create a symbolic link to your collection in your ~/Music directory. Then right-click on 'Browse Filesystem' in GMPC and click 'Update'. The MPD library will update and your collection will now be available in GMPC. MPD will not play files not included in the library. For this, use Mplayer movie player.



The default key mappings for Fluxbox has been setup as follows:



* Alt+Tab = Next window

* Alt+Shift+Tab = Previous window

* Alt+1/2/3/4 = Brings up the respective workspace

* Ctrl+M = Brings up the menu

* Alt+F4 = Closes the current window



Hopefully this will make transitioning to Fluxbox for new users more trouble free.



Enabling or disabling menu icons for the menu will delete the current menu and regenerate a new one. Any custom changes made to the auto-generated section of the menu will be lost.



On Quiting, Shutdown, Reboot, Suspend and Hibernate will prompt the user for an admin password. In order to disable this, grant the user privileges in sudoers to run shutdown with no password.