Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" Xfce Edition Beta Improves Whisker Menu, Adds LightDM

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

After announcing the release of the Beta milestone of the upcoming KDE edition of the Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” operating system, Clement Lefebvre announced the availability of Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” Xfce Edition Beta release.

Just like the KDE edition, the Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” Xfce Edition is now in Beta, based on the Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system and shipping with the Linux 4.8 kernel packages provided by Canonical through the HWE (hardware enablement) kernel from the Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) series.

The biggest changes of the Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” Xfce Edition Beta release are a much-improved Whisker application menu that was updated to version 1.7.2, a release that supports editing of launchers directly from the context menu, support for… (read more)

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