I prefer Linux Mint Mate 20.3 for my stack of 150 retired notebooks, which I set up, and give free to children's hospitals to terminally ill kids..
I'm running Linux Mint Mate 20.3 in ten notebooks on three desks.. When a new window is clicked-up the options are 'open top left side' or 'centered'.. In most other Linux OS's and in 'LMM19' a new file will open on the desktop where it was last closed.. Is there something I can add to Linux Mint Mate 20.3 to have new windows open where the last window was closed, I.E: top right corner of desktop for home file, and bottom left corner for external media..?
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Hi, @TruthCentral and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community!
Linux Mint forum is at https://forums.linuxmint.com/
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Thanks for your effort Bombilla, but that link doesn't work for anything what so ever for this problem...
When I try to get information in a Linux Mint Forum, always in comes the seven microslopt policy enforcers with their gaudy overly composed copy/pasted flame-war posts.. Seems microslopt secretly acquired Linux Mint Forums, all of them, is why I asked my pressing question in this Linux Mint Mate Ubuntu Forum... It seems microslopt acquired Linux Mint, because all the newer versions after Linux Mint 20.3 have had all the security stripped out of them, and all the security stripped out of the new Firefox, and the installs and user features are all made user unfriendly and not secure.. I get beat-up in those Linux Mint Forums by microslopt's asinine police force policy enforcer devils...
Can you answer my question here please..? After all this OS is Mate and Ubuntu, and this forum is Mate and Ubuntu.. Or did hell's microslopt acquire Ubuntu and Mate too..?
I get around the corrupt Firefox by adding Portmaster and Librewolf to a new install... I tried all the newer Linux Mints and Firefox's after 20.3.. They are all corrupt as bad as opera and brave browsers are... Using them is like 'stirring a stinkin overflowing plugged latrine'.. It seems microslopt is at war with humanity.. Seems the damn telephone company believes it owns the world...
Exactly why I use Ubuntu Mate. I used Mint Mate for about one year as a fair trial.
I found the Mint forum less than useless and I don't mean for myself but others I watched trying to get help and answers. Newbies questions often went unanswered. People often confused on the three different desktops. That said why do you insist on using Mint over Ubuntu Mate? I would really like to know and be polite.
Also insulting Ubuntu Mate and the people here is NOT the way to get help. Stick to your topic.
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Greetings jymm..
I like Linux Mint Mate 20.3.. It has a quiet desktop suitable for science writing, and works well with editing pix, videos, notes, and tunes... I like how I can have all my desktop icons in the lower toolbar, made 18-point tiny, so they don't corrupt my desktop background pix with noisy crap.. Ubuntu is cluttered with desktop animation which kills a writers roll in a flash.. I Cannot! handle that horrid bouncy jumpy gnome desktop crap, it's like a bunch of attention getting gagagoogoo toys waving above a baby's crib.. OOO YUKKK!..
I go into a Linux Mint Forum, ask a question, then get a forum reply email that kills the OS, forcing me to reinstall the OS, so I boycott linux mint forums now.. They are too too toxic.. Those people are insane...
I just want an answer to 'What can I add that'll make new windows open where they were closed? in mint mate 20.3'.. Being redirected to a hell-forum doesn't cut it.. I am so trying to be polite.. This is me being as polite as I possibly can... I want to run only Linux Mint Mate 20.3, nothing else, not ubuntu, not redhat, not windows, not apple, not chrome, not skrekian, not ruby-cervixia, not flezzlebloopkrinkus.. It's my choice.. I love Linux Mint Mate 20.3.. I'll die with all my notebooks running it... My brother gets all my electronics for his precious-metals recycling hobby... I've been saving up tools and town building supplies and amenities to build rescue towns in forests to reboot humanity after the wars.. He gets all that for his big city garage sales, at least ten of every tool, and then some, enough to build three towns in a forest.. Humanity doesn't deserve what I've got for them...
Linux is built My Way.. I have been advising Linux since near the end of W-95 how to become a public item.. One of my last messages to their university computer systems development blog was "Hey guys: Howzabout a real time list of what's happening in the OS while it's installing and updating, please".. Linux is built my way.. You're welcome!.. Mr. Torvids may have invented Linux, but I configured the whole damn thang... I just want the new windows to open where the old one was closed.. Does anyone know how to make linux mint mate 20.3 do that..? Why is it a crime to want that..?
Just did a quick search on this topic and found some options in a Linux Mint forum post:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=237126
I hope this helps.
Jaymo
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Jaymo: thanks for your effort going where I can't go because those forum kooks damage the netbook's OS.. I added it to the OS with synaptic but it didn't do anything.. It says it's installed but I can't find it anywhere, not even in compiz.. Maybe something will happen that will work before I die and fly..? Hey! I found something better than heaven beyond universes.. Nephilim heaven is way too much over-rated.. It's restrictive, infantile, mushy, and petty, best avoided...
Is there a newer desktop handler that part of it might solve this windows positioning glitch..?
Ubuntu Mate is not standard Ubuntu. I agree with you on the gnome desktop. But have you tried Ubuntu Mate? I used both Mint Mate and Ubuntu Mate which is community driven. You can barely see the difference. Not saying Mint doesn't have some nice features, like the kernel manager, but Ubuntu Mate does too, like the Ayatana indicators actually work. You really should try Ubuntu Mate. The best part of Ubuntu Mate is definitely the forum. The one thing I found better about Mint was Clem's refusal to cave to snaps but I have found that easy enough to avoid here.
This post can show you the versatility of the Ubuntu Mate Desktop. There was a shot of someone that had all their icons in the upper taskbar, easy enough to move to the bottom but I can't find that right now.
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