You could add the extension Moon PDF Viewer for PDF viewing.

LightDM looks better to me, so I would appreciated the instructions.

Also, there is another very minor issue I come across. I like to have a startup sound, and this is what I did to get one in Jessie (I got this from my Mint days):

Enable login sound on Mate:

Go to Startup Applications and click "Add." Fill in the following:

Name: GNOME Login Sound
Command: paplay /usr/share/sounds/stereo/xxxx.ogg
Comment: Plays a sound whenever you log in

To test sound in terminal, run:

paplay /usr/share/sounds/stereo/xxxx.ogg

But this doesn't work in Ascii. I did some research and it seems the reason is because PulseAudio isn't installed in Ascii. So is there a way to get a login sound without installing PulseAudio? Thanks.

Adding haveged as GNUser suggested seems to have fixed the problem (thanks GNUser!). Is this installed by default on Jessie?

Just reinstalled Ascii. I'm still getting the long login time even before I have done anything with it (logged in twice so far). I don't remember this happening when I first installed Ascii (I mean before the changes I had made). I'm stumped on this. I guess I'll just have to wait for an updated Ascii in the future. Unless anyone has any ideas.

If I wipe the partition Ascii is on, and consolidate it back onto the Jessie partition, will that mess up the grub boot loader? If so, how would I fix it?

Thanks for the help so far.

That didn't work. What was that supposed do? Before I made this edit I was able to press F1  and get "Session: Mate." (After the edit I still had to press F1 to get it.)

Another thing I should mention. I notice that about maybe 1 out of 6 times it will login very quickly.

So if I wanted to switch to lightdm, does that mean that I would need to install something else along with it?

Great. This worked! But still have the very long login time. Is there anything I can check or do about it to help?

Just installed the new release (along side of Jessie and Mint). I'm having a couple of problems. The first thing is that boot time is way slow compared to Jessie's boot time. The other problem (to me it is a problem) is the login screen. Unlike Jessie where my user name is already selected, and I only have to type in my password, Ascii requires me to type in my user name, and then my password. I know this may seem trivial, but before I tried Miyo I tried two other distros that behaved the same; not having to type in my user name for login was a very big reason I went with Miyo. (It seems superfluous to have to type it in when there's only one user account.)

Another problem I don't think has to do with Ascii is that I'm trying to run Pale Moon's browser installer script and when it asks me for my password I get an error message. It says make sure this user has sudo rights, or something like that. My password works for Synaptic so I don't know why it doesn't work for this.

Thanks guys. I marked as solved.

Okay, I think it's finally working in a way I can understand. First, I delete the trim file out of the /etc/cron.daily folder (and kept the one in my Documents folder). Then I went back to the anacron file in /etc and added this:

1 8    automatic.trim   /bin/bash /home/ron/Documents/trim

I changed 10 minutes to 8 and using your suggestion named it automatic.trim. Rebooted and ran sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep anacron and got this on one line:

May  1 19:06:28 localhost anacron[1661]: Will run job `automatic.trim' in 8 min.

Finally, checked that the log file automatic.trim exists, opened it up and found this: 20180501.

So, can I finally consider this as SOLVED?

I just finished all the steps you gave me. It appears to have worked but I have one question. When I ran sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep anacron I got this:

May  1 18:09:38 localhost anacron[1659]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2018-05-01
May  1 18:09:38 localhost anacron[1659]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
May  1 18:09:38 localhost anacron[1659]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 10 min.
May  1 18:09:38 localhost anacron[1659]: Will run job `cron.monthly' in 15 min.
May  1 18:09:38 localhost anacron[1659]: Jobs will be executed sequentially

Any idea why it says the daily cron will run in 5 minutes when it's set for 10?

EDIT: I think I know what happened. After installing anacron, I should have went back to re-add the line
1 10    example.daily   /bin/bash /home/ron/Documents/trim. I'm going back to add it again and retry everything. It should work this time!

Okay, I think I got a handle on this. I added the following line to /etc/anacrontab:

@daily    10    example.daily   /bin/bash /home/ron/Documents/trim

and made sure I copied the trim script into my Documents folder. Is that all there is to it? Once again, thanks for helping.

FTR, I'm just an average desktop user that regularly powers off (no hibernation/suspend).

EDIT: I just checked out the link in GNUser's post, and I don't have an anacron file in /usr/sbin, just a link. Does that mean anacron isn't working?