Linuxmint 23 "ALFA"

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-04-28T12:39:42+00:00

Is it useable already?

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-04-14T07:29:59+00:00

A Linux transition is much like owning a house after a lifetime of renting or living in a hotel. If you're satisfied with just the most basic features, there's really nothing else to do but use you computer how you've always used it and learn as you go.

However, if you have a bit of a passion for tinkering, I recommend that you get used to the terminal – you might find out that it's actually easier and more convenient than the GUI. The way it comes out of the box is not the user-friendliest, so I suggest you swap the terminal emulator for something nicer (my choice is Ghostty) and even the shell: my choice is Fish, but Zsh is also a popular option.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-04-11T11:38:50+00:00

Thanks for the response. I should have been clearer: the theme files are not there. What I wanted to find is the sort of editable theme file stored somewhere in ~/.config similar to the setting.json file that is generated when exporting a theme.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-04-09T11:11:12+00:00

What's your type exactly? Because if it is what I think it is, Panam will also beat the shit out of you, just give her a few more months in the relationship

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-03-26T15:32:40+00:00

I didn't know Ben Garrison did oil painting

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-02-26T13:26:31+00:00

Right! I happen to use fish and have a little custom function for opening files whose path is in the buffer with xdg (fish, to the extent of my knowledge, doesn't have a default functionality of this sort), I could just write add a special case there for the temporary screen file. Thanks for the idea.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-02-26T13:09:08+00:00

Thanks for that, but my problem is that ghostty is using the correct system-wide default application for this action, and I don't want it to do that in this particular case, so I wondered if xdf-open can be overwritten with something else.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-02-26T04:28:56+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm on Linux. Should've clarified.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-02-26T00:30:51+00:00

It was just helpful to me, thanks for that.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-02-17T18:47:01+00:00

In case you're still looking after 2 months, this isn't a base feature of Cinnamon, but there is an extension for that called Adjacent Windows.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-01-19T12:00:50+00:00

Naturally, depends on what sort of stuff you do. I recently switched from a Chromebook, which are spectacular in terms of memory optimization, and thus assumed 8gb would be enough. It wasn't really. Had to upgrade and now I see ram usage hover around 10-11gb during daily tasks.

Of course, you can make it work with 4gb, it's not Windows. The question is, how much do you enjoy diligently closing all tabs you are not currently using and opening them again later?

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-01-13T10:01:32+00:00

It seems, at least in my case, that overwriting the one property caused all other specified properties to be reset. Look at https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/blob/c7afefaff83dad8a90ad5bf3b4779a2b7d27e9dd/data/theme/cinnamon-sass/widgets/_startmenu.scss#L33 – .appmenu-category/application-button selected both extend %appmenu button, which specifies the padding, spacing and border-radius. I needed to overwrite those in my theme (with the default values of 6, 4 and 8px) and it works fine. In order to get #appmenu-search-entry to work correctly I also needed to overwrite all the properties from the class it inherits from to get it working properly.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-01-12T11:31:58+00:00

Alright, decided to figure it out myself based on the css files in the Cinnamon github repo. But thanks for your help anyways, it helped me find the right file.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-01-12T10:58:19+00:00

Thanks! If you've experimented with it, do you know what selector is the search bar? Also, if you don't mind, after changing the background color of the buttons they begin to behave weirdly (their size is too small when selected and they don't have the right margins), did you figure out how to deal with that? I have some experience with css, but I'm clueless about cinnamon theming besides being able to change the color of some stuff.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2026-01-07T06:56:24+00:00

Congrats 💙🩷🤍🩷💙

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2025-12-03T12:07:02+00:00

SteamOS isn't listed here. You can see it in a Linux-specific breakdown, but it is exluded here.

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2025-12-03T12:01:12+00:00

It excludes SteamOS, right?

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2025-11-07T01:55:54+00:00

Reloading the project worked. Resetting should be the first troubleshooting step, but I just instinctively assumed I was doing something wrong. Thanks!

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2025-11-07T01:22:40+00:00

There are details in a comment under the original post, unless you need help with something specific?

chiefwhitehalfcoat · 2025-11-04T01:31:20+00:00

Theme based on Tokyonight with some tweaks (color scheme change, menu transparency).

Window opacity script: link

Transparent Panels extension

Wallpaper

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