I am trying the very last distro Rafaela with Cinnamon, and saw some small problems in the keyboard layout switching, which do not appear with Rebecca:
Bug 1
Trying Mint 17.2 Rafaela Cinnamon (64 bits) version:
I am using alternatively 2 different keyboards layouts (Latin-American Spanish (latam) on my laptop and a Spanish/Spain (es) as an add. external keyboard at my office) The laptop is configured to startup by defect with the latin-american kbd layout, then when required I switch with the mouse or the touchpad on the taskbar to change the layout.
On the 17.2 Rafaela Cinnamon, the startup is normal and appears a dark space as it is the L.A layout selected by defect. When I switch to Spanish-Spain layout, the spanish flag appears on the taskbar, which is normal up to now. BUT If I switch back to Latino American layout, the SPANISH FLAG REMAINS ON THE TASKBAR, (the under-the-hood functional layout comes back to latam. THE NO-CHANGE IN APPEARANCE IS SOMEWHAT CONFUSING.
On the 17.1 cinnamon, this problem does not exist. Starting by defect with the laptop Latin American layout, I have no symbol in the taskbar (but a dark space). When I switch (with the mouse) to the spanish layout, appears the spanish flag in the taskbar, which is the normal behaviour, and switching forth and back modifies the taskbar as normally requireded.
Would it be possible to place an (argentinian (horizontal cyan-white-cyan colours) or Peruvian (vertical red-white-red) flag to differenciate Spanish layouts from Latino-American layout when solving this ?.
Bug 2
On Cinnamon 17.1, I use this script I found on the web to block the touchpad while inserting a USB mouse and release it when removing the mouse. This is triggered by a rule in /etc/udev.rules. I place this script in the starting programs with a tempo of 3 seconds (for X to start), like this I have no access to the touchpad after restarting if the mouse is connected, and normal behaviour if the mouse is removed when restarting. It works like a charm in 17.1 (This was to replace touchpad-indicator as it is not working because detecting my touchpad as a mouse and as a touchpad in the same time, problem of touchpad detection in the software)
Here is the script:
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#!/bin/bash
USER=$(users | gawk '{print $1}')
export DISPLAY=":0"
export XAUTHORITY="/home/${USER}/.Xauthority"
# Liste des equipements de pointage externes disponibles ici
# J'ai opté pour cette liste est faite parce que certains fabricants ne
# laissent apparaitre que leur groupe Vendor:ID sur une commande LSUSB
# Il y a peu d'autres moyens de les détecter sauf a utiliser leur ID
# Ceci est également valable pour les commandes xinput (dans mon cas)
#-------------------------SOURIS------------------------------------
#'046d:c05a' = Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse
#'093a:2510' = Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
#'4168:1010' = (Targus Optical Laser Mouse)
#'0000:0538' (This mouse as well as many other cheap ones are not identified by "mouse")
#'03f0:8207' = Hewlett-Packard FHA-3510 2.4GHz Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse
#'0458:00e3' = KYE Systems Corp. # also no "mouse"
#'1d57:32da' = Xenta 2.4GHz Receiver (Keyboard and Mouse)
#This way to select because some of my available mouses are not differentiated with the word "mouse"
if $(lsusb | grep -Eqi "mouse|0000:0538|046d:c05a|093a:2510|4168:1010|03f0:8207|0458:00e3|1d57:32da"); then
synclient TouchpadOff=1
else
synclient TouchpadOff=0
fi
exit 0
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# starts mimopad.sh while connecting or disconnecting a USB mouse
SUBSYSTEM=="input", ACTION=="*", RUN+="/usr/bin/mimopad.sh"
Bug 3
after updating Mint 17.2, Cinnamon was hanged. It restarted after I killed X with Ctl alt backspace. It appeared each time I updated the system (so 2 times with the standard graphic updater procedure)
If anyone can bring a solution, I would be vey happy with 17.2....
Best regards