Wednesday, February 6, 2013

How can I activate my graphics card driver in my Linux Mint Debian Edition?

Q. I just installed Linux Mint Debian Edition(LMDE). Unlike the Ubuntu based Mint, This one can't automatically detect the graphics card and doesn't show the notification in the tray, so I can't use animations and Compiz effects.

Any help?

A. For Nvidia GeForce Cards (6200 upwards)

Open a Terminal and submit the following command (copy and paste)

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental


Close the Terminal and REBOOT


LUg.

Questioning the mentality of Debian purists with regards to the spurning of Linux Mint Debian Edition.?
Q. It is quite understandable why there is noise from the Debian purists about Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros. but Linux Mint Debian Edition surely they are spurning their own 'The Wonderful World Of Linux Politics'

Your thoughts ?

A. Mint Debian is the next Ubuntu, now that Ubuntu has gone off the deep end. This is assuming Clem finds competent help in developing it. Can you imagine Mint's tiny team serving a community as large as Ubuntu's? It's inhuman as it is, the stellar OS they put out for what seems to be the whiniest userbase of any distro (read the blog comments). Everyone has a completely uninformed, kneejerk opinion in the Linux world, so I just ignore the average user's crankiness. I doubt it's Debian purists who object to LMDE, more like Debian posers who think an OS is a status symbol. Ignore them. Mint Debian does need a bit of refinement --at least it did when a tried it a few months ago-- but I feel it's the future. We'll even get used to Gnome 3 somehow...we'll have to, and it's improving every day from what I can tell, though I don't use it.
Think of the whiners switching to XFCE because they don't like Gnome 3, or the huge hissy fit that erupted when KDE 4 was released. I sit in bemused observation of every supposed crisis. The open source community mostly consists of reasonable and knowledgeable people, it's the newcomers to Linux that form factions and are demanding; the same ones who throw a fit about every little bug but have never filed a bug report, and if they did file a bug report it would be more nonconstructive b1tching anyway. Don't even take them seriously.

How do i make Software for Linux Mint?
Q. I've used Ubuntu since 2007 and then in December of 2009 i installed Linux Mint and i love it!, but how would i make software for Ubuntu,Linux Mint or Debian? I have no idea. Where do i start what programs do i need?
I already know c but how do i do it in GUI?
I wanna make gui apps too though, how do i do this?

A. For building GUI applications under Linux, the two most popular tookits are GTK+ and Qt (pronounced "cute"). The KDE desktop as found on Mint has been built using Qt. I have used Qt toolkit and I think it is quite pleasant to program with it.

You basically need two things to start developing GUI applications on Linux:
1) Install the gcc compiler package (and g++ in case you want to do c++ as well)
2) Install the development libraries for the GUI toolkit of your choosing

For (1), you proceed through your package manager, or enter a command in a shell such as: sudo apt-get install g++

For (2), assuming you wish to use Qt, you have to download the Software Development Kit (SDK) of Qt found here: http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-linux-x11-32bit-cpp
You run this file and follow the wizard that will install all the development files for you.

Qt SDK also includes a nice code editor called Qt Creator which will greatly facilitate your job.

Once this is installed, I recommend starting the Qt Creator editor, and loading a couple of examples provided with the editor. Study them, and you will be able to write your own programs.



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