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The system here features an Acer 1280 X 1024 75Hz monitor and Gateway/Acer SX-2800 micro desktop with 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 4 GB RAM and WDC WD640 drive. The OS is Linux Mint 17 (LTS) with MATE 1.8.0 desktop. A pretty vanilla system these days, but it’s more than I need. Note my frequently used apps appear on the left-hand panel which is normally hidden. I found the uncredited image on the web somewhere. It is highly appropriate for a Linux system isn't it?
The Ancestral Quest and G4FON shortcuts launch the respective Windows programs on Wine 1.6.2 from the MINT repo. Note also that MINT 17 has an app to support Dropbox, which I use to copy pictures and books to and from my iPad.
Dave Rowell
This is my Linux Mint 17 KMate: I've pimped up Mate using the KWin window manager from KDE project and Conky.
I've installed kde-window-manager and systemsettings, the latter because I need to tweak the style fine tuning in Application appearance to low cpu-high resolution mode. Kwin is launched by the command kwin –replace, I set it as startup application: it takes few seconds more while booting, however this way it's very easy turning it off.
Here are the details of appearance settings: the icon theme is Mate Faenza Dark, available in the official repos, the theme is Menta, one out of the Mate official themes package, also stored in Ubuntu repos, and the window decoration is glowglass, a KWin theme decoration from the web.
The elegant time widget is a customized Frozen Cherry Desktop widget I've found in one of the bundles I installed; by the way, in order to keep the cpu load low, I raised the Conky update interval from 1 to 10 seconds.
My PC specs: Lenovo T43p, 2.13GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM, 80GB HD, Ati Fire GL3200.
Gabriele Tettamanzi