Linux Mint 21.2 MATE | First Impressions

In This Video We Are Looking At Linux Mint 21.2 MATE. Linux Mint 21.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable. ► Subscribe me here : ► Follow me on Tumblr : ► Follow me on Twitter : ► Follow me on Pinterest : Click Here to Watch More Entertainment : ► Linux Videos : ► Buyer Guide Videos : ► Raspberry pi Videos : ► Review Videos : ► Mozilla Videos : ► Vpn Videos : ► Ipad Videos : ► Mac Os Videos : ——Subscribe to stay up to date with the channel! —— Make sure to subscribe to the channel & select the 🔔bell push notifications (click the 🔔BELL icon next to the subscribe button) to be notified immediately when I release a new video. ✅ BE SURE TO LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS!!! If you watched this video and scrolled to the bottom and are reading this I would love to hear from you. If you have any questions give me a shout on social media & I’ll try and answer all the questions you might have. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you next time! Slick Greeter Slick Greeter, which is in charge of the login screen, was given support for multiple keyboard layouts. The indicator located on the top-right corner of the screen opens a menu which lets you switch between layouts. Support for multiple keyboard layouts System layouts defined in /etc/default/keyboard are listed first for easy access. Below that a sub-menu lists all supported layouts. Touchpad support was also improved. Tap-to-click is detected and enabled automatically in the login screen. The layout used for Onboard, the on-screen keyboard is configurable. Configurable layout for the on-screen keyboard The keyboard navigation was improved. The arrow keys can be used to edit the password which is being typed. A revealer icon appears when the password is clicked or edited. This revealer can be used to toggle the visibility of the password. Password revealer in the login screen Among other small improvements Slick-greeter also received support for Wayland sessions, LXQT/Pademelon badges and a scrollable session list. Software Manager The Software Manager was given a UI refresh. Better apps and UI refresh in the Software Manager The list of featured applications was updated and now includes Flatpaks. The scoring system was improved to give more visibility to new trending apps. Pix Pix, which was originally based on gThumb , was rebased on gThumb . The new gThumb UI was adopted. It uses headerbars and buttons instead of toolbars and menubars. It’s slightly less discoverable for newcomers but it looks very clean and remains quite intuitive. Pix 3.0 This rebase brings 168 new features or user visible changes, most notably: Better performance, faster image loading, faster navigation Support for AVIF/HEIF and JXL formats Improved support for GIF, RAW and TIFF images Improved zoom controls Support for larger thumbnail sizes: 512, 768 and 1024 pixels. Allow to set shortcuts to activate filters. Template editor to edit text values with special codes: script commands, rename templates, print header and footer, etc. Support for color profiles Improved video playback New image tools: special effects; curves. Color picker Search in multiple folders Customizable keyboard shortcuts Improved filters Meson build system The changes which were specific to Pix were cherry picked and re-applied. These include: A more intuitive default configuration Support for Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce Configurable dark-mode Support for Xapps favorites Look and Feel Folder icons Folder icons no longer feature a stripe. Instead, each color received beautiful two-tones icons. Here are a few examples: Aqua folders Pink folders New color variants were introduced for popular colors. This one is Yaru (from Papirus, inspired by the Yaru theme from Ubuntu): Yaru folders with Orange theme And from blue to green we’ve got 7 beautiful variants. Here’s Teal using Cyan icons: Cyan folders with Teal theme Brown and Sand were shades of the same color (same hue) so brown was removed. #matedesktop #matedesktopenvironment #linuxmint #linuxmint21 #debian #ubuntu #jammyjellyfish Todays Video - Linux Mint 21.2 MATE!