Peppermint OS

[hacktheworld]

Yesterday I installed Peppermint OS on my laptop, and at first glance it exceeded my expectations: no installation problems (in trial boot), nice and clean graphical interface (XFCE), fast on my laptop which has some pretty low specs and very user-friendly!

 

[Brickwizard]

I like Peppermint, it has come a long way from its origins of a lightweight offshoot of Mint, I used to run the 32 bit version on a very low resource Acer netbook

 

[hacktheworld]

I have installed Peppermint OS also on my Desktop PC and it's work fine, but there is some
malfunction with the terminal, the same thing happened with Peppermint OS on the the Notebook, often the terminal freezes when I install a program (with the terminal) and i press enter (often I have to press the Enter key several times and unlocks).

 

[KGIII]

often the terminal freezes when I install a program

Is it freezing or just being slow? If capslock or numlock change their indicator light, it's probably not frozen. It may still be unusable for a period of time, but it's likely not frozen. (Those lights are confirmation sent from the computer to the keyboard, a very small function that works even when resources are heavily constrained.)

Also, do all terminal emulators do this, or just the default?

 

[PuppyHome]

After reading I fired up a VM with Peppermint which I run and there was no issue with the terminal. I've been using Peppermint for many years off and on and never had this issue.

I think a job you have started via the terminal might not be finished when the terminal "freezes". Must be something like that.

 

[hacktheworld]

Is it freezing or just being slow? If capslock or numlock change their indicator light, it's probably not frozen. It may still be unusable for a period of time, but it's likely not frozen. (Those lights are confirmation sent from the computer to the keyboard, a very small function that works even when resources are heavily constrained.)

Also, do all terminal emulators do this, or just the default?

Just the default.
When the mouse pointer is on the terminal everything works correctly, maybe this is a feature of Peppemint OS I hope.

 

[KGIII]

ust the default.

Just out of curiosity, I'd try another terminal emulator. A fun one is "Terminator" and is probably available in your default repositories.

 

[wizardfromoz]

@hacktheworld - Peppermint have a number of versions currently supported, including

• Peppermint Debian 'Bookworm'
• Peppermint Devuan 'Daedalus' and
• PeppermintOS Classic (based on Peppermint 10)

so you may need to establish which one you have. The full name of the Peppermint .iso you installed from will likely reveal.

Once that is established ... we have the pleasure of having one of Peppermint's main makers and shakers, @pepdebian as one of our Members. By my mentioning him, he will be alerted, and when next online here, he may be able to assist.

Cheers

Wizard

 

[hacktheworld]

Just out of curiosity, I'd try another terminal emulator. A fun one is "Terminator" and is probably available in your default repositories.

the terminal freezes when I install a program (with the terminal) and i press enter (often I have to press the Enter key several times and unlocks).

Thank you, now the problem seems to be solved, it only happened when I copied and pasted a command. When I type the command on the terminal without copying and pasting, it never happens.

 

[hacktheworld]

@hacktheworld - Peppermint have a number of versions currently supported, including

• Peppermint Debian 'Bookworm'
• Peppermint Devuan 'Daedalus' and
• PeppermintOS Classic (based on Peppermint 10)

so you may need to establish which one you have. The full name of the Peppermint .iso you installed from will likely reveal.

Once that is established ... we have the pleasure of having one of Peppermint's main makers and shakers, @pepdebian as one of our Members. By my mentioning him, he will be alerted, and when next online here, he may be able to assist.

Cheers

Wizard

Thank you very much!

I have installed Debian Base(bookworm) 64-bit (Peppermint Debian 'Bookworm'),

 

[wizardfromoz]

Thanks for that.

...now the problem seems to be solved,

When you are sure this is solved, you can mark it as such by going to your first post, and do as follows

Near bottom left of the post click Edit - (No Prefix) - Solved

Cheers

Wizard

 

[pepdebian]

It could be your XFCE focus setting someone asked a similar question on our forum.
here
Hope that helps