Unsupported window manager
I have just installed Mint 20.3 Mate on my PC and Laptop. The window manager works on the PC, but not supported on the laptop. It's a fresh install so no going back with Timeshift. Maybe I can re-install the Mate window manger.
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You posted. Was that a question? How did you decide your window manager wasn't supported?
Post on the forums here when you want help and provide information. |
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Might wanna change your title. I came here looking for a Window Manager like Fluxbox, icewm, etc......
Sounds to me with your generalities stated that your laptop is maybe under-powered for mint mate. Can't say for sure. Quote:
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Well. Without a
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inxi -zv8 Installing another Desktop Environment may give you the same problems as Mint Mate. Example of the command above on my box Code:
harry@mx:~ Code:
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~$ inxi -zv8
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-94-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-94-generic root=UUID=d3e0d207-7ac1-41a1-a0c9-dfde73498a4e ro quiet splash zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4 Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 info: mate-panel wm: Compiz 0.9.14.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 15-5578 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter> Mobo: Dell model: 0H20TW v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.32.0 date: 01/14/2021 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.0 Wh condition: 37.2/42.2 Wh (88%) volts: 11.9/11.4 model: SMP DELL 35RH35C type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging Memory: RAM: total: 15.50 GiB used: 1.47 GiB (9.5%) RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-7500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Amber Lake family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9 microcode: EA L2 cache: 4096 KiB bogomips: 23199 Speed: 3500 MHz min/max: 400/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3500 2: 3503 3: 3500 4: 3500 Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa compositor: compiz v: 0.9.14.1 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-94-generic Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 8086:3165 IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> type: temporary dynamic scope: global IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute scope: global IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link WAN IP: No WAN IP data found. Connected to the web? SSL issues? Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 32.00 GiB (6.7%) SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: THNSNK512GCS8 SATA 512GB size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 4101 scheme: GPT Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. RAID: Message: No RAID data was found. Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 25.33 GiB size: 24.81 GiB (97.93%) used: 8.27 GiB (33.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 label: N/A uuid: d3e0d207-7ac1-41a1-a0c9-dfde73498a4e ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 1024.0 MiB size: 1022.0 MiB (99.80%) used: 36.3 MiB (3.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 label: EFI uuid: 849E-3DA5 ID-3: /home raw size: 55.88 GiB size: 54.75 GiB (97.98%) used: 23.69 GiB (43.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 label: N/A uuid: 105ead4d-0017-4992-97b4-75f527346996 ID-4: swap-1 size: 4.88 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 25 (default 60) cache pressure: 50 (default 100) dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A uuid: 6d95729f-1223-42f4-9322-339fda4102c9 Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda5 size: 24.67 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: accfc252-0ef6-494a-a2c1-fad0e70195f8 ID-2: /dev/sda6 size: 216.17 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: 3876a2cc-f434-4e39-93cb-8f6170539c2e ID-3: /dev/sda7 size: 56.28 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: 1290bf85-b8df-4c3c-8d83-ce64d984d74b ID-4: /dev/sda8 size: 90.18 GiB fs: ext4 label: Timeshift uuid: 7fdf7d9a-d84f-4e0a-b8cc-bc6b9e19f889 USB: Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 046d:c52b Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0bda:58c6 serial: <filter> Device-3: 1-6:4 info: Intel type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0a2a Device-4: 1-7:5 info: D-WAV Scientific eGalaxTouch EXC3104-1324-05.00.00 type: Mouse driver: hid-multitouch,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0eef:c0aa Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: 44.0 C sodimm: 33.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list 1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com una main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main 2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse 4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse 6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 1: deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free #Opera Browser (final releases) Processes: CPU top: 5 1: cpu: 3.6% command: brave pid: 1752 mem: 131.5 MiB (0.8%) 2: cpu: 3.4% command: brave pid: 1715 mem: 332.2 MiB (2.0%) 3: cpu: 2.6% command: mate-terminal pid: 2938 mem: 39.9 MiB (0.2%) 4: cpu: 2.0% command: xorg pid: 899 mem: 119.5 MiB (0.7%) 5: cpu: 1.4% command: brave pid: 2334 mem: 140.5 MiB (0.8%) Memory top: 5 1: mem: 332.2 MiB (2.0%) command: brave pid: 1715 cpu: 3.4% 2: mem: 276.0 MiB (1.7%) command: thunderbird pid: 1621 cpu: 0.4% 3: mem: 155.9 MiB (0.9%) command: brave pid: 1964 cpu: 0.5% 4: mem: 140.5 MiB (0.8%) command: brave pid: 2334 cpu: 1.4% 5: mem: 131.5 MiB (0.8%) command: brave pid: 1752 cpu: 3.6% Info: Processes: 287 Uptime: 27m Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 |
You obviously didn't read the link I sent you. Let me be clear.
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I've read online certain systemd distros are having trouble with i915 driver depending on which kernel used. Can't find the thread where I read that though.
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SysVinit v: 2.96 |
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But there's no reason a new laptop like that can't run mate if that's what you want, just need to understand what your problem is, if there is one... |
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Everything is working fine and the only reason I got tangled up in this "unsupported WM" was I to use "Alt click" to move a window. No biggy as "Alt F7" works fine. So maybe I'll accept things the way they are; maybe try another kernel. |
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You may have found a bug.
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SysVinit v: 2.96 Just my druthers. I am sure it is fine for what it does. Just not interested. |
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