That one looks fine.
Try recreating the ones you moved one at a time.
After each one, reload the panel/menu with:
lxpanelctl restart
When you figure which one broke the menu … post its contents here.
I don’t know, I don’t get it. Everything’s working fine now. Well, no need to worry. I’m just happy to be up and running again. Thanks!
I’ve pretty much figured out, thanks to you, how to get all the stuff I need from XP, but I have a question. There’s a game that I play that keeps giving me a message that my Flash Player needs to upgraded. I can’t seem to figure out how to install it? There’s also the fact that I’m not sure which version of Linux I’m supposed to be using. I guess this is all pretty vague. The choices it gives you for download are:
YUM for Linux (YUM)
.tar.gz for other Linux
.rpm for other Linux
APT for Ubuntu 10.04+
I’m not sure which one I should use. I also have another one that tells me I have to install JAVA, but if I try to install it, I get a message saying the install failed, disc full.
Hi Buckwoody
Peppermint is based on Ubuntu so whenever your presented with a choice you would choose the Ubuntu version (APT)
Before you attempt to install Flash make sure you have Ubuntu Restricted Extras & Lubuntu Restricted Extras installed by copy & pasting the following commands into the terminal
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Then
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-restricted-extras
then see if your game will work
Good luck
Graeme
I did what you said, but there doesn’t seem to be any difference. The Facebook game that asks you to upgrade Flash works, but that was working before. I just didn’t know if Flash had to be upgraded for some reason, but the other games are POGO.COM games. I don’t really use them too often, so it doesn’t really matter too much. Those are the ones that say I need to install JAVA. There is another game though, which I would spend hours on which is a pool game. It’s on MINICLIP.COM. For some reason, MINICLIP loads in, and all of the graphics seem to be there, but when I click on the pool game it just comes up blank. I’m not sure if that JAVA thing makes a difference with that?
I did what you said, but there doesn't seem to be any difference. The Facebook game that asks you to upgrade Flash works, but that was working before
I’m a little confused here are you saying this Facebook game was working in spite of the Error message ?
For some reason, MINICLIP loads in, and all of the graphics seem to be there, but when I click on the pool game it just comes up blank. I'm not sure if that JAVA thing makes a difference with that?
As far as the Java thing is concerned I would have been inclined to suggest you to make sure you have openjdk installed but I have that installed on my machine and I’m having the same problem as you with the Pool game
To be honest i don’t really know what to suggest other than wait till Mark or someone more savvy comes on board to help with this
I’m confused with the Facebook thing also. It says that the game will run better if I upgrade Flash, but like I said, it runs anyway. Weird! As for the MINICLIP game, I’ll see if Mark can figure it out. In the mean time, thank you so much for your help. All of you guys are great!
How can I get to these games to test them ?
and what’s the output from:
dpkg -l | grep java
and
dpkg -l | grep gecko
and
df -h
Hey Mark,
I’ll check those in the morning. In the mean time, the pool game is on miniclip.com, and the other games are on pogo.com. I’ll get back to you in the morning.
OK, I take it you’re on Peppermint 4 with Chromium as the web browser ?
I just tested miniclip 8 ball pool with Chromium and the Adobe flashplayer and the flashplayer always just sat there without loading the main game … Chrome on the other hand works flawlessly (as does Chromium when using Chromes pepperflash)
So we have 2 options here … install Chrome (Chrome will NOT work with web shortcuts created with Ice), or get Chromium to use Chromes pepperflash instead of adobes flashplayer.
instructions for making Chromium use pepperflash can be found here:
http://peppermintos.net/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=6176
If you’re not sure if you’re running 32bit or 64bit Peppermint let me know.
Here are the results:
buckwoody@buckwoody-Dimension-8200 ~ $ dpkg -l | grep java
ii ca-certificates-java 20121112+nmu2 all Common CA certificates (JKS keystore)
ii gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 1.10.2-0ubuntu1 i386 GObject introspection data for the GTK±based JavaScriptCore library
ii java-common 0.43ubuntu4 all Base of all Java packages
ii libatk-wrapper-java 0.30.4-0ubuntu4 all An ATK implementation for Java using JNI
ii libatk-wrapper-java-jni:i386 0.30.4-0ubuntu4 i386 An ATK implementation for Java using JNI (jni bindings)
ii libhsqldb-java 1.8.0.10-14ubuntu1 all Java SQL database engine
ii libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 1.10.2-0ubuntu1 i386 Javascript engine library for GTK+
ii libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 1.10.2-0ubuntu1 i386 Javascript engine library for GTK+
ii libreoffice-java-common 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 all office productivity suite – arch-independent Java support files
ii libservlet3.0-java 7.0.35-1~exp2ubuntu1.1 all Servlet 3.0 and JSP 2.2 Java API classes
ii plasma-scriptengine-javascript 4:4.10.5-0ubuntu0.1 i386 JavaScript script engine for Plasma
ii tzdata-java 2013g-0ubuntu0.13.04 all time zone and daylight-saving time data for use by java runtimes
buckwoody@buckwoody-Dimension-8200 ~ $ dpkg -l | grep gecko
ii gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.8-1ubuntu1 i386 Multimedia plug-in for Gecko browsers
ii wine-gecko1.4:i386 1.4.0-0ubuntu2 i386 Microsoft Windows compatibility layer (embedded web browser)
buckwoody@buckwoody-Dimension-8200 ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb5 20G 3.9G 15G 21% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1000M 4.0K 1000M 1% /dev
tmpfs 202M 820K 201M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1009M 576K 1008M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 12K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sdb7 41G 39G 12M 100% /home
You are currently using ALL your home folder.
if you don’t clear some space on there SOON … you may find yourself unable to boot to a graphical user interface.
:-\ Well that doesn’t sound good? How do I fix that?
You move some stuff out of your home folder … such as docs/pics/music/etc. … and bung it somewhere else, such as an external drive
(or possibly back to the windows partition)
OK, the title of this topic is “Moving Files From XP to Peppermint”
So I take it this is a dual boot PC ?
did you MOVE the files from XP to your Linux home folder, or did you COPY them ?
What I’m asking is - is there now 2 copies of your user files (docs/music/pics/etc) … one in Windows and one in Linux ?
Yes… I thought about it, and yes. I’ll move everything back to XP. I guess I thought that I could move everything out of XP and into Peppermint, and eventually stop using XP. I guess that’s not the case. Actually, everything’s still in XP. I guess I just have to delete everything in Peppermint.
You CAN move everything to Peppermint if you’re going to remove XP … as we can give Peppermint more space once Windows is gone.
But if you’re going to keep BOTH, there’s no point in having your user files replicated in your Linux partition because
a) linux can access them from the Windows partition
and
b) Whilst you have both OS’s, both of them have a limited amount of space 
So if you’re planning on ditching the Windows partition(s), let us know.
I guess I should just keep both since Peppermint can just access everything in XP. I guess I was thinking that since support has ended for XP and it’s supposed to be a dangerous environment now, that the whole purpose of getting a new OS was to eliminate the need for XP and to eventually get rid of it. Also, since the 80 GB hard drive was almost full, and the new 250 GB hard drive wasn’t really being used. I thought that the new OS would be fine. I guess XP will just be used as a file cabinet. No problem. I’m learning.
I’m a little confused here so excuse me if I’m not understanding this right but as I remember your Windows XP was installed on the 80gb drive(sda) and you installed Peppermint on a separate 250gb drive (sdb), now from what I can see you’ve only allocated 60gb to Peppermint (20gb system and 40gb home) so where’s the remaining 190gb ?
Graeme
It’s just sitting there doing nothing. Something I can’t seem to figure out is I guess I have to delete the files in home, but it won’t delete them because there’s not enough room in the trash, yet I can’t delete what is in the trash because there’s not enough room to delete it??? I’m confused! :-\
Pressing Shift + Delete key and it should bypass the trash can
Before you trash anything can you post the output of
sudo fdisk -l
Here’s are the results:
buckwoody@buckwoody-Dimension-8200 ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for buckwoody:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa839a839
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 156280319 78140128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x21ded6ae
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 355274751 177636352 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 355276798 488396799 66560001 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 355276800 397219839 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 397221888 401416191 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7 401418240 488396799 43489280 83 Linux