Re: [tlug] Cinnamon had crashed

[Brian Chandler <brian@example.com>]

Thanks for all the help. "Little" things like the comment about ubuntu 
repositories really help.

Anyway, I went round many circles. I ran memtest and it found 0 errors, 
but seems to have frozen after about 12 passes. Next time it did 28 
passes, no errors, no freeze.

I managed after a struggle to get to a BIOS menu; couldn't find the boot 
setting; still can't boot from DVD; but somewhere I just happened to 
click Boot Mint 17, and it just worked. So for the moment I am just 
using the once-crashed Cinnamon.

This box is quite old, and I have had a few sporadic problems like just 
not booting, so I might replace it. Is this the time to find the 
crap-free window manager I so crave. Do I have a want-list? Not really, 
more a Don't-want-list.

Words not blobs
No transparency, anywhere
No shades of grey, particularly tasteful ones. In fact the more tasteful 
the more I do not want them.
No clever replacements for text configuration files
And everything else that is not part of Modern Computing Solutions.

Not quite window manager, but I would also like to find a text editor 
with humble ideas about fancy characters. gedit works so hard to make 
life hard for me: I am staring at more tiny blobs, "Chinese commas" and 
whatnot, and gedit carefully displays the same character code completely 
differently depending on context, no doubt according to some incredibly 
clever algorithm. Just something else I don't want.

Oh dear, I'm probably sounding negative.
Brian Chandler

On 2014-09-24 18:10, Raymond Wan wrote:
> Not being able to access archive.ubuntu.org is not uncommon.  I
> sometimes have problems accessing the "main" Ubuntu repositories and
> then I end up picking another repository.  I accept the fact that it
> is my system's problem after I try a few repositories...
>
> (Under Ubuntu and I think Debian, by editing /etc/apt/sources.list .
> Not sure about Mint.)