Linux Mint 21.2 Xfce | First Impressions & Installation
Linux Mint 21.2 Xfce
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.
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 3.2.8, was rebased on gThumb 3.12.2.
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
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