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Many thanks to you all for your support and your donations!
Today we’re revealing some of the visual changes we’ve been working on in preparation
for the next release.
Introduction
In Linux Mint 21.1, we introduced the following improvements:
Mint-Y was turned into a less-accentuated theme with vibrant colors and new place
icons
The old look was provided via Mint-Y-Legacy for people who didn’t like these
changes
A selection of popular 3rd party themes (Yaru, Numix, Breeze, cursor themes..) was
added
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This was well received and it provided a lot of options for users to choose from.
That said, a few issues caught our attention.
The huge variety of themes and color variants created clutter and made it harder for
users to locate a particular theme.
Some icon themes work well with some control themes but not with others. The
welcome screen provides a way to quickly switch from light to dark and from one color
to another but it has its own limitation: It only works with the Mint-Y theme and only in
our distribution.
With this in mind we decided to design a solution which could work for any theme and
any distribution and which would make it much easier to browse and pick without having
to go through long lists of installed themes and without worrying about compatibility.
Oh, and the striped place icons weren’t as popular as we had imagined. This is
something we got very early in your feedback. We worked on that too.
Simpli�cations
No brown
Brown and Sand are shades of the same color (same hue). We’re introducing color tones
so one of them had to go.
No stripe
The stripe on the place icons was cute but it wasn’t well received. People wanted more
variety when it came to colors. The stripe color wasn’t visible enough to work well with
folder-color-switcher.
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/folder-1.png)
The stripe was therefore removed, making the icons look similar to those from the
Papirus icon theme, which they were based on.
No mono icons
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One of the really cool things about Gtk (the toolkit used by most applications in Linux
Mint) is how it supports “symbolic” icons.
Symbolic icons are designed to provide good contrast and to be recognizable in all sizes.
Gtk dynamically changes the color of these icons based on the background color which
is behind them.
Have a look at the “Copy” menu item below:
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/nemo.png)
This menu is from Nemo which uses symbolic icons. As you can see, the icon changes
color and goes from black to white when the menu item is hovered. It matches the label.
In comparison, look at the menu item below:
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/caja.png)
This menu is from Caja, it uses a normal icon, also known as “fullcolor”. This is an icon
which is rendered just the way it looks. Gtk doesn’t change its colors dynamically.
As you can see it doesn’t look as nice. The “Copy” label gets inverted to white but the
icon keeps its original color and lacks contrast.
And this particular icon isn’t just a fullcolor icon… it’s a monochrome fullcolor icon. We
use fullcolor icons in dialogs, in the app menu and that’s OK as long as these icons are
actually colorful. The problem here is that this fullcolor icon is monochrome.
You see, the trend nowadays is to have monochrome action icons. It’s what we’re used to
and what we expect. It can either be done correctly, using symbolic icons:
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/nemo2.png)
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or done badly, using mono icons:
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/caja2.png)
To prevent this kind of issue all the applications and projects we develop use symbolic
icons. This ensures they look �ne with any themes, whether the themes are dark, light or
light and dark.
An application which uses fullcolor icons will only work well with some themes. An
application which uses symbolic icons will work well with any themes.
Until now Mint-Y provided monochrome fullcolor icons. This was done to make fullcolor
icon applications look nice (almost similar to the symbolic look) but at a cost. First it
only worked with light themes, so each color variant had to be duplicated, to provide both
a Light and a Dark icon theme. Second, no matter what, this couldn’t work with themes
which mixed dark and light elements (Mint-Y-Legacy-Darker or Arc-Darker for instance).
This is Transmission, one of the few applications which still relies on fullcolor icons. It
looks nice because Mint-Y provides monochrome icons which look similar to its
symbolic icons.. but this application features the same theme compatibility issues as
caja.
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/transmission2.png)
In Linux Mint 21.2 we will remove all monochrome icons and all Dark icon themes. In
applications which still use them, fullcolor icons will default to Adwaita.
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04
/transmission.png)
Whether or not they look better is subjective, but at least they will work everywhere.
Cinnamon “Styles”
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The next iteration of Cinnamon will introduce a new concept called “styles”. A style has
up to three modes: mixed, dark and light. Each of these modes can contain color
“variants”. A variant is a combination of themes which work well together. The idea
behind styles, modes and variants is to make it really simple to switch to something that
looks great, and to quickly browse what’s there, no matter how many individual themes
are installed and without having to �nd elements which match each other.
When you open the theme settings, you will see this:
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/adwaita.png)
In the style combo you’ll see popular styles such as Adwaita, Mint-X, Mint-Y etc.. choose
one mode and the color variants will show up.
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(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/styles.png)
You can switch between styles, modes and color variants with a few clicks of a button.
If you want to tune things or select a combination of themes which isn’t proposed, you
can click on “Advanced settings” and get back to the familiar settings window where you
can choose each theme individually.
Mint-L
Mint-Y-Legacy was renamed Mint-L.
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(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/mintl.png)
If you enjoy the “Darker” themes, it’s never been easier to select. And now that the mono
icons are gone it’s compatible with fullcolor applications.
Two-tone place icons
The stripes are gone on place icons and each color received beautiful two-tones icons.
Here are a few examples, Aqua:
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(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/aqua.png)
Pink:
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/pink.png)
New colorways
In the past we tried to cover all the colors of the rainbow and to make sure they weren’t
too similar to each other. This was a mistake. Most people like blue or aqua. We still
need to provide variety of course, but it shouldn’t matter if two styles are similar, as long
as they bring something tangible and they’re both popular.
So with this in mind, we brought in another orange combination. This one uses Yaru
(from Papirus, inspired from the Yaru theme from Ubuntu):
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(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/yaru.png)
And from blue to green we’ve got 7 beautiful variants. Here’s Teal using Cyan icons:
(https://blog.linuxmint.com/upload/2023/04/cyan.png)
Distributions and 3rd party themes

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Everything will work out of the box for everybody. We want Cinnamon styles to work well
for us but also for other distributions and 3rd party theme artists.
Cinnamon styles are de�ned in JSON �les in /usr/share/cinnamon/styles.d/. These �les

are read in alphabetical order and styles can override one another if they have the same
name. This is done to let distributions and/or theme artists de�ne their own styles.
Cinnamon provides style de�nitions for Adwaita. Mint provides additional style
de�nitions for its own themes.
We also made it relatively easy for artists to generate Mint-Y icon themes. Here are SUSE
and Gulf examples:
If you’re interested in de�ning Cinnamon styles or generating your own Mint-Y colorways
don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
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126 COMMENTS
April 3, 2023 at 2:15 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359941

Salvatore
Hi Clem great job as always next future will could change material state
of cinnamon oriented to qt5 like Kde for example ? i think will be more
good looking cinnamon anyway in my heart i hope who kde will return to
the �avour of this great linux distribution
Reply (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486&
replytocom=359941#respond)

Peter Luckraft
Hello
Love Mint (Release Linux Mint 20.3 Una 64-bit MATE 1.26.0), but it
seems to be more and more complicated and di�cult to use ( window
edges at 1 pixel). I stayed at 20.3 because it became di�cult to �nd
programs that used to be part of the distribution.
If there were no themes or mention of themes, I would be very happy as
they are not the reason I use Mint.
Anyway thanks a lot for what you do.
A+Pete

T.István(hun)
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It’s a Mate (GTK) feature, not Mint issue, other distros

using Mate are also affected. You may check for
another theme from mate-look.org, maybe
Menta/BlueMenta/TraditionalGreen themes have
better border sizes

Nich
Will there be an auto-switching theme, as well as colored icons in the
explorer?

lorier
yeah i want an auto schedule light and dark theme.
might also schedule wallpaper selection for it too.

Seba
I found an applet that maybe can help, is called Dark
Mode [by slgobinath]

Me encantan dulceros
I’m really happy about the improvements. Now choosing themes will be
easier. I don’t like adwaita too much, but if it resolves themingOK
issues,
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let mono icons go. Thank you!

ricardo c
I like the 2-tone and striped folders
April 27, 2023 at 10:47 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-366152

Joe
Same here. the current state of the default installed
theme (just selecting dark and teal on initial launch)….
is perfect. Absolutely the best anywhere! I would like to
keep it and not change again. Maybe in a few years
time, but 21.1 is really the peak for me in 12 years of
using Mint.
If some people don’t like the folder stripes, let that be

another theme. You cannot please everybody at once.
Some will like a pointy mouse, others a rounded one,
some like stripes, others not. We are all individuals,
that variety makes the world interesting.

Seba
First of all, thanks for the great job!. I think the way you manage the
themes is great, hopefully in the future you will implement an option to
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I would like to inquire about a feature not found in Mintinstall, would it

be possible for you to add the ability to sort the search results of the
app and software categories? I mean something simple like
alphabetical sorting, ranking, reviews, etc. Thanks in advance
PS. I hope you can update the Flatpak version to a newer one that �xes
security bugs.

JL
Thank you for your work.
It seems to me that the new – newly universal – style that you propose
for selected menu items has a problem. The problem, in short, is that
the selected item does not stand out enough. Here though is some
detail – and a proposed solution.
The problem owes to this combination of state of affairs: the

unselected items are rendered in black type; and the selected item in a
white-ish grey type on a washed-out green background. The result is
that the selected item does not look much more ‘selected’ than the
unselected item. I imagine that the solution is: use a more vivid
background colour for the selected item, and, for that same item, a
more vivid – visible – foreground colour.

Axel358
I couldn’t be more proud to be a Mint user right now. I’m so glad you
guys took all our feedback and shaped it into such elegant solution.
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Can’t wait to see all these neat new features in action. Just one humble
request thou, could cinnamon screensaver get some love in this
development cycle, with everything being round these days i feel like
maybe something could be done about the user avatar ;). Again as
always great job guys.

Bruno Miranda
@Clem and Team, thanks for listening to the Community, giving
feedback and implementing steps forward.
Regarding the color of the folder icons, personally I think they are too
vibrant, just my own personal opinion and yeah I know that’s the trend
nowadays. But (again in my own personal opinion and (lack of) taste, I
�nd the Aqua theme too bright and the Blue one too dark. I’d personally
chose something a bit more sober, around 20% Aqua and 80% Blue.
How hard and feasible would it be to implement a way to �nely select a
color (MATE had this years ago) and then generate a custom icon
scheme according to that user’s selection? That way everyone can be
pleased.
And how hard would it be to create a tool where the user has a window
representative of a theme and can click on an individual visual element
(icons, window title bar, buttons, controls, etc.) and use the color
selection tool mentioned above to customize one’s theme?
By the way, one hint about custom installed themes not working well on
root applications: creating a symbolic link of that theme’s folder from
~/.themes to /root/.themes/ can solve this. I’ve tested this on Mint21.1.
And I know, writing on the root account is something to never take in
lightly, especially when automating settings from behalf of the user.
Cheers and keep up the good work towards Mint 21.2.
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JosephM
If you want your themes to work on all applications,
move them to /usr/share/themes instead of
~/.themes. That is the appropriate place to put them
for use system wide.
As for how feasible or hard it would be to create a tool

for a user to tweak their theme they way you ask? The
answer would be not very feasible and very di�cult.
Mate dropped this for a reason. Not just to take away
choice. That worked ok in the old Gtk2 era but
nowadays themes are vastly more complex and
complicated and something like that just isn’t very
workable anymore.

Bruno Miranda
@JosephM Thank you so much for replying me with
some innards of theming. Well, that has become
something way too complex, it seems. So for it to
become easily tweakable it would have to be made so
from scratch and intent, and this is precisely the
direction GTK3 is going apart from…
TLDR: With GTK3, forget it, son.
Regarding the proper way to install themes, thank you

again for clarifying.
For all the downloadable themes I see around, the
instructions are to install them into your home folder.
And (at least where I’m at in Mint 20.3) Mint also
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installs themes there when using it’s Themes de�nition

settings tool.
At a user level it makes all sense installing it into your
home folder, but then it can break root apps theming.
A regular user shouldn’t need to know root and system
stuff and paths, but making the right AND easy AND
safe decision on a user’s behalf is not a trivial
question. Having Mint’s Themes de�nition settings tool
install themes to the /usr/share/themes folder? It’s not
directly user writable, it would need to ask for
administrative permissions. Write it there AND / OR to
the user’s folder? Needing administrative permissions
to install a simple theme?
Again, not trivial questions to be taken lightly when
deciding the best for your OS and your users, I
understand.
Thanks again JosephM for all your clari�cations and

cheers.

JosephM
I’m assuming you are talking about the ability to install
themes from Cinnamon’s Themes settings tool. The
intent of that was for downloading Cinnamon themes.
There is no need for those to be installed in /usr. Over
time people have just started including GTK
(application) themes along with them. So it wasn’t
really meant for that in the �rst place.

Mintulix
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Thumbs up for the rebirth of the darker themes!

David King
Looks 100% better than Mint 21.1
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Philippe
Hello, I have a few questions for you,
– Which Linux Mint 21.2 kernel will it come with, given that Ubuntu LTS
recently upgraded to 5.19? (In your article you quoted Mint 21.1 instead
of 21.2 it seems to me)
– What is the future of the Ubuntu-based version of Mint given that

Ubuntu is more and more snap-focused that you don’t support this
package format?
– Has LMDE 6 development started, given that Debian 12 development

has started?
– Will Cinnamon eventually be compatible with Wayland?
– Can we hope soon for Cinnanon compatibility with multi-GPU laptops

as offered by Gnome since its version 40?
Best regards.

Calvin
The wayland support and Ubuntu going full-snap is a
really BIG ISSUE for Cinnamon

Ludolph
Ubuntu to Ditch Snap Completely With 24.04 LTS
Naughty Nightingale
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https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-ditch-snap/
(https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-ditch-snap/)

Graham
Did you notice the date when they announced that
Ubuntu was abandoning Snaps? April 1st…

Mick
@Ludolph,
That article was an April 1st joke! Had me going for a

minute though

Jarosz
Hi! I’ve been using Linux Mint for years and I really like it, it’s installed on
all my computers and my immediate family’s computers, even on a
gaming computer (Steam).
In all my time using Linux Mint, I have only collected two main problems
that cause problems for non-professional users, people in my family,
they are people in my family who don’t even know they are using Linux
1. When copying, for example, a large number of photos from the

computer to the pendrive, the copy bar disappears, suggesting that the
copying has �nished, which is not true because copying to the pendrive
has not �nished. Sometimes this ends up corrupting the data on the
By continuing to use this�ash drive.
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2. Computers have automatic system updates turned on. If the

computer is in the process of updating the system and the user wants
to turn off the computer at that time, only the option to put the
computer to sleep is available. There is no “Update and close
automatically when update completes” option.
If so, can I report it somewhere?
Regards

Adabiel
I have the same issue with point 1.
I also agree with point 2.
For me, these things are more important than font icon
colors and other less important things.

Nigel
I agree with pendrive issues, also when unmounting,
ejecting or safely removing a USB drive in Nemo I get a
noti�cation “the drive can safely be unplugged”,
If I right click the drive and select “safely remove drive”
from the desktop I get an audio sound but no other
noti�cation and if I right click “eject drive” from the
desktop, I get no noti�cation at all. If this inconsistency
can be addressed it would be nice LM20.3
Cinnamon
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Bernhard
I would also like to emphasize the importance of the
2nd point. It happens quite often to me, when shutting
down the o�ce computers in the evening after having
been on suspend, I have to wait until updates are
�nished and the window for shutting down is
accessible again. So this additional button “Update
and close automatically when update completes”
would be quite useful. Thank you so much for
considering this idea of Jarosz.

DaveW
I foresee a problem with automatic shutdown in an
o�ce environment. You would be leaving the computer
unattended where an unauthorized person could have
access.

Maria
#1 has been a problem for me. I’ve had drives
corrupted because Safely Remove and Eject didn’t
work properly. Very frustrating.

sct
I totally agree with both points. Please make usage of
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usb stick, external hdd etc more reliable, please,

please, please.
Also it could be great if we can have a copy veri�cation
tool with gui like teracopy or fastcopy from windows
as i cant �nd one for linux.

Vasily
I wrote my own copy program, and after copying I
compared the checksums of the source �le and the �le
on the �ash drive. The checksums matched, but the
�le on the �ash drive has not yet been fully copied.
Conclusion: This is not a LinuxMint bug, it’s a low-level
bug.

Bruno Miranda
Agree.
1) I don’t trust the OS regarding copying �les. In this

case, I would run sync to make sure the cache has
been committed to the drive. I don’t know why, but I’ve
seen in several websites examples sync being ran
twice in a row.
Regarding �le integrity, if a copy operation fails mid
work you get a partial corrupt incomplete �le left on
the destination, presenting itself as apparently OK. And
that’s a NO NO regarding �le integrity and Linux should
make sure this does not happen, but this goes beyond
my ability of understanding.
2) Yes, also this.

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This is why I don’t recommend automatic updates to

non technical users. Try to explain them you can’t shut
down your computer when you want to… The Update
And Shut Down option makes all sense.
I personally also don’t have them enabled, but for
people who have it and are not in a hurry to shut down,
I recommend the use of qshutdown, very nice tool.
Give it more than enough time to complete updating
and then shut down your computer. Or go to the
Terminal and tell it to shut down somewhen.
“3” – Since we’re talking about automatic updates,

Firefox’s (at least here on the ESR version I’m at) when
it is open and updates itself on the background, it
becomes unusable, forcing you to restart to update. If
you’re in the middle of online work on some webpage
using Private Browsing, say hello to data, work�ow and
Private Windows opened loss. That’s another NO NO
for me regarding updates.
Suggestion: Allow Firefox to keep on working and only
update when it is restarted. I remember not so long
ago when it used to work this way. But since it seems
Firefox on Mint is now under the Mint Team’s hands,
they can do something about it, I’d appreciate it!

Jaiden
Yes. I wish to have the noti�cation “safe to remove usb
drive” pop up when i right click on the desktop icon for
the drive and click eject, not just when i eject in nemo.
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Abaw
Couldn’t agree more with the 1st point. One day, I
copied a linux mint iso on my usb drive and it was
quicker than i expected it to be but i still safely ejected
it not thinking too much of it. Once i tried to boot from
it, I would get an error requesting to load the kernel
�rst, I knew secure boot was off as it’s a common
cause of this so I was scratching my head around it
until someone on the forum suggested to type the
“sync” command.
This is something that should either be seriously
addressed or at least informed to newbies upon a new
installation.

George Lukas
And NOT to forget this annoying long-
standing”enumeration bug” on lvm/luks encrypted
drives… . Huh? It simply means you cant mount 2
identical Mint OS platters. THE 2nd will fail. why? Bith
have same name, but diff. hardeare IDs…..Big Fail…

Leon
@DaveW:
No, you’re not “leaving the computer unattended where

an unauthorized person could have access”. You can
do that if you want to, but you can always lock the
screen
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passwords. The updates are still working in the

background with the screen locked up.

T.István(hun)
It could be a hardware issue. I have 12 pendrives and
some of them works as you described, and some
works as expected.

Jarosz
Hi! I checked it many times, it’s not the hardware’s
fault. I suspect that the progress indicator concerns
reading from the source and not writing to the
destination, it disappears when everything has already
been read, but it does not mean that it has been saved
because some of the data may still be in RAM/SWAP
memory. Perhaps this is because Linux is not originally
designed for small computers.

Vasily
Copying to a slow external device, a �ash drive, is
observed on ALL Linux distributions.
This is a huge low-level mistake.
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Greg
Indeed, these are points for concern. Mint is a reliable
OS and issues 1) and 2) need to be resolved….

JB
Having the same issue as #1 – at least on my USB
�ash drive. After the copying gauge window has
closed itself with 100% reported copied, the copying of
those �les is still completing in the background until
some minutes afterwards.
Thank-you for your attention. :^D
+JMJ+
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Simon Müller
I have the issue mentioned in Point 1 too. After some
research it seems that my motherboard’s USB
Controller is the culprit, but there is no appropriate
driver for Linux to �x these issues. So here is what I do
instead:
First, if the pendrive has a status LED, I check that to

make sure the transfer is �nished.
If not, I open a terminal and run “sync”. sync will only
exit once all read/write operations to (in this case) the
pendrive are completed, thus giving a slightly more
accurate status on whether the operation was �nished
or not.

black theme
I wish rainbow had black colour, so people would make black themes.

Jeremy Boden
Will the long-standing Mint-X theme be retained?
It has allowed those who prefer a more old-fashioned look to maintain a
stable look.
Will 3rd party (user written) nemo actions and scripts be supported,
possibly as part of the apt update process?
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JosephM
Not an o�cial response but I don’t see Mint-X going
anywhere anytime soon. In fact it was just recently
rewritten in sass to make maintenance easier and a
dark variation was added. It also gained Gtk4 support.

Nigel
Very glad to hear mint-X will still be around, whilst I do
play with the new themes on various machines, on my
main machine I still prefer Mint X. That said I do much
prefer the planned new icons to the “striped” ones.
Mint just keeps getting better and better

Secret-chest
Mint-X is still a mint theme. It’s no longer the default,
but it’s still supported.

Robson Fernandes (http://Brazil)
I’ve been using Mint for years.
I left Windows and I’m never going back.
I’m a Java developer, I use Eclipse and MySQL and everything works
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perfectly!
For me, it’s the best linux distribution out there!
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Olivier S
Hello,
I �nally switched to linux mint about 6 months ago after lurking for
years. The start was a little bumpy, but then after that it has been
nothing but a joy to use. Thank you very much to all the people involved
to make this distro such a great one :).
I would like to use this opportunity to mention two minor feature
requests that I have been holding in my head, my apologies if this the
wrong place to ask. I can totally live without those, I just wonder if this
is something you ever considered:
-in windows I did found very useful to be able to “copy” a �le or folder
and then right/clic: “past shortcut”, to create somewhere else a shortcut
to this �le of folder. I did �nd the alternative in cinamon; it can be
achieved by creating a simlink with “ctrl+shift while drag and dropping”
the �le or folder to the place I need. I would �nd very useful to have this
option accessible from the right clic context menu.
-displaying the “avatar” from the user in the login screen. It’s not
something which was bothering me, but then I recently created another
user account for my young son on my main computer. I noticed then
that to select which account you are going to log in with, you only get to
see the names of the users as a vertical text list. It could be nice to have
the option of displaying there each user image (avatar) next to the
corresponding user name. It could make the start page a bit more
friendly, especially for younger users.
Thank you again,

Maria
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shortcut”, to create somewhere else a shortcut to this

�le of folder. I did �nd the alternative in cinamon; it can
be achieved by creating a simlink with “ctrl+shift while
drag and dropping” the �le or folder to the place I need.
I would �nd very useful to have this option accessible
from the right clic context menu.”
I’m still using Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon edition, so I

don’t know if it’s changed, but in Nemo you can go to
Edit and then Preferences to �nd Context Menus.
There under Visible Entries you can check “Make Link”.
Then it will appear in the right-click menu and function
like Windows Create Shortcut feature. (Right click a �le
or folder, choose Make Link to get a shortcut right
there which you can move wherever you like.)

Olivier S
Thank you Maria! It didn’t know the “make link” was
available in the preferences, that’s great

Eric
I hadn’t been aware of the changes in 21.1 until yesterday when I was
testing some distros I have fallen behind on. I was pleasantly surprised
by what I found and am even more impressed by what I’ve read here. I
have heard many times that Cinnamon is dead, has fallen into disrepair,
and will likely be abandoned at some point in the near future. I am so
happy to see that this is obviously not the case. Thank you for all your
efforts to keep Cinnamon one of the best desktop environments.
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Nigel
De�nitely not dead or in disrepair, I have been using it
since LM17 and it just gets better and better!! I am
gradually converting my family members to the
advantages of Mint over Windows (one of which is I do
not get called on for support as it just works and is
amazingly reliable!!). Clem and the whole team are
amazing and also they do listen to, and respond to,
concerns raised and what the users want as far as is
possible, and for that i am very grateful

Mike F
Where have you heard that?! Cinnamon has never been
anywhere close to dead or in disrepair. It’s been under
constant and very active, heavy development since it
was �rst conceived of. The Linux Mint team is always
doing amazing work with it, even if I sometimes
complain about some aspects of it (sorry, Clem and
team when I do)!

T.István(hun)
@Mike F
There fake news, like a stupid post on betanews,
saying Mint became obsolete, because Ubuntu
adopted
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see: https://betanews.com/2023/03/28/ubuntu-
cinnamon-o�cial-�avor/ (https://betanews.com
/2023/03/28/ubuntu-cinnamon-o�cial-�avor/)

Mike F
This is probably the best response to the community’s concerns that
I’ve ever seen. I love that about this distro! Linux Mint team is awesome!
Thank you for addressing our concerns in an appropriate, �exible, and
effective way! Amazing work!

Charles
They have had quite a while to draft such a response.

mohican
Thanks for the nice work. However I would like to suggest something
more operational : can we have in Cinnamon a sound indicator from
which to choose directly the output source, the input source and the
input (mic) volume, like the one in Xfce panel ? This is the main reason
why I stick to Mint Xfce.
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Philippe
In system settings => Sound => Output you can choose
the sound output device (Analog, HDMI, headphones,
etc.)
For incoming sounds, select the tab just next to

“Input”… This settings are only possible if supported
devices are connected to your PC
You can also access it directly via the “Volume”

shortcut on the right in the taskbar and then click on
sound settings.
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KMetalMind
These changes are awesome! I already liked 21.1, but I agreed too to
user concerns. I asked myself why those changes weren’t made, and it
turns out you were just waiting to implement them properly. That’s how
good software is actually made!!
I’m loving all the changes and I already look forward to next version.
Back on Windows, I didn’t want updates at all, but damn, you are making
me love them.
We have currently switched three family computers from W7 to Mint,

and I’m not looking back. I’ve opened Windows just a few times (maybe
around 5 times in nearly a year) for some .exe installers (with �les that I
later use for Linux). I still haven’t learnt Wine. Once I get there and I
learn how to properly sandbox it, I will probably don’t come back again
Everyone is happy using Mint! So really thanks for this awesome
OSS!!
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Arthur
I have a question about Mint-Y-Legacy (or newly called Mint-L) theme: is
there a way to increase minimize, maximize and close buttons like it
was in Linux Mint 20.3? I really love this legacy theme and I would like
to continue using it but those three small buttons are really hard to click
on and I’m looking for a way to make legacy theme look exactly the
same as it was in 20.3 version (with big minimize, maximize and close
buttons).

Secret-chest
You could try ripping the Mint-Y from 20.3/21.

Mummby
Another reason to remain on Mint 20.3 for me and the
Mint Team needs to go back to �xing the under the
hood features/issues and stop with the UI changes for
a while. And that’s just too much UI changes there for
no good reason. I’d really like to see more efforts at
resolving GPU and Graphics compatibility and support
issues and on getting Linux Mint ISOs that ship with
Intel’s OneAPi and AMD’s ROCm/HIP packaged with
the ISO so Intel and AMD GPU compute acceleration is
accessible from Blender 3.0/later editions. But maybe
that’s going to be a question for the MESA developers
there Instead. But I’m really disappointed that the
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Blender Foundation dropped OpenCL support for

Blender 3.0/later editions while there is now that Rust
Based OpenCL Implementation being worked on top
give Linux/MESA some more up to date OpenCL
support �nally.
Mint Legacy UI should be an option chosen at

instillation any time there’s a radically new redesign for
the newest Mint editions as I’ve downloaded and
installed mint 21.1 on a USB for a look see and I’d
rather have the UI theme that’s on 20.3 than the one
that’s on Mint 21.1.

Concerned Citizen
I wholeheartedly agree with Mummby. If developers
said the UI looks should not be the reason why to use
an OS, then why they are making UI changes, instead
of making the OS better? Visible changes just irritate
people and drive them away, because changes make
the OS unfamiliar. I would also like to stick to looks of
20.3 or at least 21.0, and I would also skip the looks of
21.1 in the installer if it were possible – with the
spinning rainbow mouse cursor, it looks like a toy got
from a circus. It’s not Linux Mint any more if it does not
look like Linux Mint.

Dan F.
A good step forward. Can I ask that some consideration is given to the
Dark Themes? I feel there is need for a more obvious colour difference
between active and inactive windows. Whilst there is a font colour
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change, the panels background does not. For some of us with less than
perfect eyesight, for whom the dark panels are important, can you
please consider making the background of the inactive window say 20%
lighter ie more grey?

T.István(hun)
XFCE has an option under compositing settings, you
can make the inactive window to look lighter /
translucent, while the active window remains
accented.

Minessota Klei
Hi Linux Mint team,
Thank you very much to all of you, I really like Linux Mint, the
expectation is great for the news (^o^)//
Please give KolourPaint attention and love!!!

Greg
I admire the way you work on things. Thoughtful. And the sense od
urgency with which you solved the particular problem with themes that
appeared in LM 21.1. Honestly, my bow. The new theme picker looks
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modern and solves the problem of too many theming options mingled
together in one window. New folder icons – great. Thank you!

Tim
I sure wish the KDE version of Mint would come back.

Maria
Oh darn. I rely on Mint-Y-Dark-Brown for my desktop theme because it
looks great and makes the white letters in the menu easily readable.
Dark-Sand looks anemic compared to brown, and it’s not dark enough to
make the white letters in my menu very visible.
Generally, my biggest problem with Mint has to do with text and icons
being di�cult to see. And I’m not even that old. I just like to avoid eye
strain as much as possible, so I value elements that are clear, sharp,
large and with good contrast.
I’m trying to decide what to do now that 19.3 is EOL. I have read that
Metacity High Contrast window borders will no longer work in 21x.
Without it, the minimize, maximize and close buttons on windows are
so tiny on my monitor, they’re virtually invisible! (The Adwaita play and
pause icons shown above look pretty invisible to my eyes, also.)
At least the awesome Cinnamenu is still supported in 21x. I much prefer

that to the default menu!
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Ev
You’re probably a lot smarter than I am with
technology, but I thought I’d share a comment. This
might be totally obvious and laughable to you, but you
can change fonts and their sizes. I press the Windows
key on the keyboard and type “Font Selection” and
change there. You can right-click the taskbar and make
things bigger there, too. I’m “not that old” either and
have to make stuff bigger—I recently put Mint on my
parents’ computer and for the life of me could not
remember how to make stuff bigger but was relieved
when I remembered how! Sorry if I’m stating the
obvious :]
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Tony W
You’re correct that Metacity is not used in Mint
Cinnamon any more.
In Mint 21 & 21.1 I use this method to get min/max
/close window buttons 50% larger, plus coloured
window title bar for active window: https://github.com
/the-allanc/minty-color-titles/ (https://github.com/the-
allanc/minty-color-titles/)
Its a simple matter of dropping the gtk.css �le into
~/.con�g/gtk3/ folder and refeshing cinnamon.
You do have to uncomment the last section of the
code to get the bigger window buttons.
Not sure how it will go with 21.2 when that arrives.
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Luís
Tony W, thanks for your suggestion, you saved my day.
In a test 21.1 system, I just downloaded the css �le,
put it in ~/.con�g/gtk3.0/ (after renaming the one that
was there to BACKUP), restarted cinnamon and it
works.
I have colorful window titles with a clear separation
from the title bar to the rest of the window, like in 20.x.
The lack of clearly visible window bar/title and buttons
was the main reason why I did not upgrade to 21.x and
stayed in 20.3 in my main system.
Now i can upgrade to 21.1.
But if is this is so simple (and possible), to have color
window titles and buttons, why does not the Mint team
gives this possibility o�cially?

Bruno Miranda
@Toni W, thanks for this one. I’ve saved it to check it
out properly later.
One of my complaints was that I had a hard time
distinguishing the active window from the background,
leading me to close the wrong window by mistake.
I’m on Mint 20.3 and I’ve installed the CBlack theme, it
makes the window (minimize, maximize and close)
buttons colored, so I can easily know which one is the
active window. This works on Mint 21.1 too.

Maria
54 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
@Ev: Thank you for your reply. Yes, I always increase

the fonts and icons as you mentioned, but it’s a good
tip for anyone who might not know.
@Tony W: Thank you for posting the Github link. I saw

that in the forum but haven’t had a chance to test it yet.
I’m glad to know that’s a good option.
I have LMDE5 on a laptop and I’ve been testing LM

21.1 on a new mini desktop but it seems better with
LMDE5 also, for some reason. (Perhaps because they
both have AMD Ryzen processors? I don’t know.)

Greg
Hello, if you want darker font there is a workaround.
I’m not particularly tech-savvy but I used it and it
works. Just read Dedoimedo’s blog post:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-mint-
ulyana-xfce.html (https://www.dedoimedo.com
/computers/linux-mint-ulyana-xfce.html)

Erik
There is also a text scaling factor in the font settings. I
have a new laptop with QHD (2560 x 1440) resolution
and I set the scaling to 1.2 to help me read things. You
can also set a scale factor in the display settings as
well and I use 125% there. It helps a lot.
55 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

John
I have been using Mint for years on our 2 aging computers, currently
using Mate to reduce the hardware resources required
One of them is 32-bit with 1 GB RAM which works �ne with Mate 19.3,
but now that 19.3 is EOL I need to make a change
I would have liked to use LMDE 5 on this one to keep the consistent feel
between the 2 computers, but the RAM can’t support Cinnamon
demands
Will there ever be a Mate or Xfce version of LMDE to support these
older but still operable computers, or do I need to bite the bullet and
learn MX Linux or another distro ?

Secret-chest
You can install `mint-meta-mate` to get the MATE
desktop on LMDE

Bruno Miranda
@John, consider installing zram on that old laptop.
Basically it is a compressed swap in memory. On that
computer it can hit a little bit on the CPU but it makes
all the difference.
I have an old Intel Core Duo with 2GB of RAM, it has
zram �rst and then HDD swapping. And no SSD, all
spinning rust drives. It is slow, of course, but it doesn’t
even gets suffering, and I can open a lot of windows
56 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
and applications and it still manages to work just �ne

as a replacement computer. I’m looking at a SSD for it
right now, in front of me.
You can install zram by installing zram-con�g and you

can con�gure it on /etc/default/zramswap . Make sure
to reboot afterwards.

Robert
Hello Mint-Team,
Thanks a lot for all the good work.
I personaly work with the emblems for folders in nemo.
But there are limited choices to put in the standard version.
Thats why I am asking for having a look on the proposal done by
NikoKrause commented on Jun 14, 2016: https://github.com/linuxmint
/nemo-extensions/issues/166 (https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-
extensions/issues/166)

sct
Thank you for Linux Mint! I can’t wait to use LM 21.2 Cinnamon!
Can I have one little request?
I really, really wish to be able to change the color of tooltips. I personally
would like green, but a friend of mine would like blue.
57 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

InfoLibre (https://infolib.re)
Some Cinnamon con�guration �les use the name of the user in the
home path instead of using ~. It’s bad because if you want to use these
�les in /etc/skel after con�gurint Cinnamon, they won’t work. For
example, in ./.con�g/menus/cinnamon-applications.menu, ./.con�g
/cinnamon/backgrounds/user-folders.lst etc.

Knavë No
Cannot be easier and less res.cost effective just apply fn �lter.invert to
selected icons of menus?
and assuming all user changes in themes will b like a kid painting the
walls of room for �rst time. Couldn’t be like adjustable & reversible
�lters applicable to ribbon and menus of certain apps

Henrik
Good idea to clean up the Dark Mode issues .-)
Please do not forget about a suitable icon set for LibreO�ce in Dark
mode! There is a “Colibre Dark” available for installation (no idea where
it comes from, if it is complete and if it can be used): https://github.com
/rizmut/libreo�ce-style-colibre (https://github.com/rizmut/libreo�ce-
style-colibre)
The “Colibre Dark SVG” does not seem to be a good option as it looks
By continuing to use thisblurred
website,compared totothe
you consent the“Colibre Dark” inversion:
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58 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
https://www.linuxmintusers.de
/index.php?topic=76402.msg1005403#msg1005403
(https://www.linuxmintusers.de
/index.php?topic=76402.msg1005403#msg1005403)
Thanks again for your great work, Henrik

Eckhard
Yes! Please! What Henrik mentioned!
Using the default dark theme, the symbols become
unreadable / unrecognizable, especially when they are
toggled. Dark grey on dark grey with dark grey doesn’t
work that well. Of course you can change the theme /
style or install third party icons, but while you are on it
anyway, this would bene�t mint greatly, working
streamlined out of the box.

Adabiel
On LM 21.1 I have four user angles. Moving from one corner to another
and to the next, after some time when I switch back to my corner, I only
have the background on the Panel and I have to restart cinnamom.
Sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn’t.
59 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

Adabiel
I have four user accounts on LM 21.1. Moving from one account to
another and to the next, after some time when I switch back to my
account, I only have the background on the Panel and I have to restart
cinnamom. Sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn’t.

Jakob
Hi all, great news! I am excited to see the new color variations and
location icons.
But the screenshots here only show the icon view. How does it behave
in list view? In the old themes up to Mint 21, the selected folders were
hard to see in list view, because folders and highlights had the same
color shade. In Mint 21.1 this problem was solved because folders and
highlights had different colors (yellow and aqua).
Will the future themes provide a good contrast in the list view? Are there
also screenshots for this?

Secret-chest
You can go to Advanced Settings and select different
icon and theme variants.
60 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

Jakob
That’s a good point. And what if I want the folders and
the theme in the same color? Do the selected folders
in list view then stand out well against the selection
color? Maybe by a white border around the selected
folder or by changing the folder color when it is
selected (like Dolphin does in KDE)?
61 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

gerry
A big thank you to Clem and the team for constantly striving to improve.
[quote]Tony W
In Mint 21 & 21.1 I use this method to get min/max/close window
buttons 50% larger, plus coloured window title bar for active window:
https://github.com/the-allanc/minty-color-titles/ (https://github.com
/the-allanc/minty-color-titles/)
Its a simple matter of dropping the gtk.css �le into ~/.con�g/gtk3/
folder and refeshing cinnamon.[/quote]
Fantastic Tony W, i love it.

This was a pet hate of mine – not being able to tell one active window
from another,
all the black (dark grey) titlebars just blended into one another before i
installed this �le.
Now I just need to create a link to this css �le
so i can install this everytime I install a new version of Linux Mint or
LMDE.
thanks again for this
62 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

Tony W
Just to be clear, I had nothing to do with devising this
css �le, that was all done by Allan Crooks.
If I recall correctly, there were a few attempts by
different people in the mint forums to improve the
window titlebar and buttons but Allan’s solution was
the one that worked best for me.

Sergey Lotnikov
Hello Clem and all Linux Mint team,
I’m really impressed with Linux Mint and Cinnamon which looks much
better than any other environment, I use it much and I advise other
people do the same
I only hope that the problem of huge CPU consuming by Cinnamon will
get proper attention in some future releases, sometimes it gets 95% of
CPU (12700H Alder Lake)
Thanks

Ev
Does it do this with other versions of Mint?

spamegg
63 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
“sometimes it gets 95% of CPU ”

This means the correct graphics driver is not properly
loaded and you are running on software acceleration.
It’s unfortunate but happens a lot on Intel HD graphics.
I don’t think it’s an issue with Cinnamon, I see this a lot
over on the Forums. Intel graphics just suck on Linux.

Harry W. Haines, III
This is a �rmware bug with the kernel and certain Intel
processors. How to tell? Open up ‘System Monitor’ and
the �rst CPU will be stuck at 95%. A soft reboot won’t
�x it. If you do a hard power cycle it will go away until it
gets stuck again. Do a search on the term “runaway
kacpi notify”.

Secret-chest (https://Secret-chest.github.io)
Wow, Clem! I’m impressed. You really care about the features that you
do implement! Can’t wait to make a theme and an installer using the
beautiful new chooser!

exploder
The changes look neat and organized. Very nice work! I always
appreciate that Mint actually listens to user feedback and responds like
this. Looking forward to the point release!
64 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

HP
After seeing the new themes settings panel, I only hope that 3rd party
themes are still be fully functional. I use Otherwise I will leave Linux
Mint.

Vivek Sreedharan
I’ve got nothing but good regards for entire Linux mint team. @clem
good to see these improvements. Waiting for the release!

fredcw
>Cinnamon styles are de�ned in JSON �les in /usr/share/cinnamon
/styles.d/.
Where are the technical details of how this will work or where is this
being discussed so that people can make suggestions/feedback. I’m
concerned about these �les being stored in usr/share/cinnamon when
it may be better to do this in a more DE agnostic way. For instance,
could these styles/colorways �les not also be used in other DEs like
MATE or Xfce? Would these �les also not be better stored in their
individual theme directories, that way a 3rd party theme folder could be
65 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
downloaded and moved to ~/.themes and it would have the

styles/colorways included? If people need root access when installing
3rd party themes then it seems less likely that these style/colorways
�les will be widely adopted.

jotadeaa
Looking forward for thus changed to be available.

MEYER
Ne pourrait on pas programmer dans le temps les créations
d’instantanés de TimeShift.
Elles ralentissent mon laptop pendant trop longtemps à mon goût, et
bloquent même l’accès à certains services.

Beezzilbum
I just upgraded my newest laptop from Mint 20.3(HWE 5.15) to Mint
21.0 and the update was OK there but I noticed that instead of
remaining on 5.15(HWE) I was updated to Kernel 5.19 and that’s �ne
there as that’s the latest HWE Kernel. And that’s all �ne but the version
of Blender 3D(3.0.1) that ships with Mint 20.0 is too new for me as I’d
66 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
rather stay on the Blender 2.8 or 2.9 series that still utilizes OpenCL for
GPU compute and not ROCm/HIP that’s not really o�cially supported by
AMD for Linux Mint(My Laptop has an AMD processor with Vega
integrated Graphics and a Discrete mobile Polaris GPU). And AMD’s
never going to support ROCm/HIP for Polaris GPUs for GPU compute
while with OpenCL Polaris GPUs are supported for that Industry
Standard OpenCL GPU compote API.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Now there’s Mint 21.0 and my MESA version’s jumped to Mesa 22.2.5
with the next version of MESA after that having Initial support for that
Rusticl(OpenCL written in RUST) support but the Blender Foundation
has dropped support for OpenCL with Blender 3.0/Later editions but
Blender 2.8/2.9 editions still utilize OpenCL. And I wish that the Mint
Maintainers would have had the option to remain on the older Blender
version there unless they where willing to package AMD’s ROCm/HIP
and Intel’s OneAPI(For Blender 3.0/later) with any Mint edition ISO that
ships with Blender 3.0/later as that’s what’s used for the for Blender 3.0
GPU compute instead of OpenCL.

Babzoog
Does anyone Know the version of MESA that Ships with the Mint 21.1
ISO?

blur
67 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
Adding blur to cinnamon will make it look even more attractive to many
and attract more users for sure. It’s not functional feature but a bit deal
with respect to looks in the market. Just give a toggle for those who
won’t use it.

kindusmith
Thanks for your hard work. can you add a sound for clearing the trash in
the sound settings? Because both macos and linux have this function

rickNS
The new two toned icons, are OK, and I will not complain about such
details, but I do not see them as an “improvement” over already existing
(in Mint 20.0) Mint-X-Blue icons. Which were also two toned, white plus
color, and also had a gradient to them, perfect IMO. Question, will they
remain unchanged ? Please say yes, or keep them. And yes, thanks for
all the hard work on a superb iteration of Linux. I prefer the MATE
edition, but have to tell you that it is your Mint Menu (Advanced MATE
Menu) that makes your MATE the best. Why am I being blocked by
sucuri?

Mike
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68 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
I’m pretty sure Mint-X isn’t going anywhere, although

its development has slowed a lot and takes a back
seat to Mint-Y. I would love to have a fully dark-mode
capable Mint-X version after seeing their basic dark-
mode version of it (made for their Cinnamon dark
mode enhancement a while back — works with things
like the Terminal and GTK 3+ programs, but it’s lacking
full compatibility to GTK 2 and QT like Mint-Y’s dark
version has). The devs have informed me that they
have no intention of putting that much more work into
Mint-X. Which is a shame. It’s the best non-�at theme
on any OS. I’d love to see it get more love. I’m
absolutely not a fan of �at themes (I’m especially not a
fan of Mint-Y — way, WAY too �at, not even shadows or
anything for depth), so Mint-X is the only thing I can
really use and enjoy.

alanK
I have a few themes myself, both desktop and icon themes.
I would very much like to get in touch with you about how and if my
themes will line up with you plan for styles. Also what tools you may
have to make themes/styles.

Mehmet
Will �rmware updates via fwupd supported later versions in mint update
application?
69 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

Monnkeyz
Upgraded 6 systems from Mint 20.3 to Mint 21.0 and had only one
issue with one laptop that hung up late in the upgrade stage on some
repository/other with an error 100. But I was able to restart the upgrade
again after quitting and restarting mint upgrade. But now all my
systems have the legacy key warning issue and I wish there was a tool
to migrate the keys to whatever new key/keyring system is being
unitized on Mint 21.0 later. The online how-to solutions are just
confusing me more so there really needs to be some Mint 21 legacy key
conversion tool provided there to do that for any keys relegated to the
legacy keyring.
————————————————————————————————————————————
I’m done upgrading for a while until I’ve had time to research Mint 21.1
so I’ll be on Mint 20.0 for a few months maybe.

FloatsLikeBricksDont
“Mesa 23.1 RadeonSI Enables Rusticl OpenCL Support
Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 12 April 2023 at 07:02 AM EDT.”
This headline from Phoronix and I’d like for the Mint 21 series to get
that Version of MESA and for there to be a Legacy Blender
2.9(PPA/Other) variant that can be be installed on Mint 21 as that’s Still
using OpenCL for GPU compute and hopefully my 2 AMD Ryzen 3000
series processor’s GPUs(Integrated Vega and/or discrete Polaris) will
be able to be utilized by Blender 3D(GPU Accelerated Cycles rendering)
once that Rust Based OpenCL gets Established as part of the MESA
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Drivers that ship with most all the desktop Linux Distros.
.
Currently Mint 20.0 is Mesa 22.2.5 and really I’ve got to downgrade the
Version of Blender that ships with Mint 20.0 to the last Blender 2.9
release because that’s still utilizing OpenCL and not ROCm/HIP(Blender
3.0/Later Editions). I’m going to probably have to uninstall Blender 3.0.1
and see from there if the Radeon Vega Integrated and Polaris Descrete
GPU on my newest laptop will work with MESA 23.1 as I have never
been able to utilize Blender 3D GPU accelerated Cycles rendering under
Linux and Polaris Discrete GPUs are not getting any ROCm/HIP support
from AMD(Only Vega/later Generation GPUs) . So if MESA 23.1
supports OpenCL(Rust Based) then that’s the only viable option(Blender
2.9 legacy) for me there on my laptop with the RX560X GPU.

VernB
While I see people concerned about colours of folders and whether they
should have stirpes or not,
I don’t care what colour they are or if they have stripes, dots, dogs ears
or binder holes in them.
What gets me is this. It started on the thenth or eleventh.
mint update. The Linux Mint Update Manager 5.9.8
And this is what happens.
The repository ‘https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:
/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_VERSIONUMBER ./ Release’ does not have a
Release �le.
I think that updates may be important, but maybe not.
71 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM

Tom
I really wish Linux Mint would bring back Window borders in Cinnamon.
Some custom themes look out of place without Window borders. All
other updates being made look great.

Sergio
Great news!
Please improve Nvidia Graphics propietary driver support for next
release (I can’t get it working without black screens or the need of
manual editing system �les), and please improve audio management
(Linux mint doesn’t see some of my audio input devices).
Thanks for your work!

donnybrook
Why was there no mention of apt version 2.4.8 getting support for
Phased Updates and on a few laptops that I have that are all on Mint
21.0 currently I’m getting 4 updates held back there on laptops that are
running the LTS Kernel 5.15 while on 2 of my newest systems(
laptop/Mini PC) that are running Mint 21.0(HWE Kernel 5.19) I’m getting
one update held back on those 2 systems. And I had to roll back one
laptop(Mint 20.0/LTS Kernel 5.15) to an earlier Timeshift snapshot once
I learned nothing was wrong with my system and that I should not have
forced the updates to install Via Synaptic/apt.
72 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
But apt getting Phased updates and that’s newsworthy to include here
at least and Synaptic needs to be updated by Canonical to actually
explicitly state that the updates are being held for phased release as
that’s not done in Synaptic currently and end users confused as to why
those updates are available in Synaptic but Mint Update’s saying that
the system is up to date.

LM20.3
https://imgur.com/VQyiAbz (https://imgur.com/VQyiAbz)
Linux Mint 20, 21 Mate. Incomplete download icons. .Crdownload, .part
�les left after the download is complete. This problem is two (four)
years old.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1148884/uncompleted-downloads-
part-�le-present (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1148884
/uncompleted-downloads-part-�le-present)

JTF (http://Mint)
Why do we have to enter our password so many times in the update
manager? It gets annoying. Once should be enough.

By continuing to use thismailing188@yahoo.com
73 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
Please build about two new copy features for NEMO, that today are
state of the art while copying (like in Windows 10):
-0-100%-Display of copied �les (till now):
Visible display of how much percents copied(%), while copying �les with
Nemo (like copy-function in Windows 10 while copying �les, etc.).
-Pause-Button (clicking on/off for pause):
A visible clickable Pause-Button is today state of the art (like in

Windows 10), while copying �les, because it is possible to do a pause,
to do other things with Computer, etc. (e.g. while copying a lot of �les
for hours, etc.)
May 2, 2023 at 12:50 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-366517

angelo
it would be great to have round corner windows also in the lower part so
it’s more coherent and have more compiz-like window effects (there is a
wobbly extension and the magic lamp and desktop cube are missing,
thanks a lot.) clem I don’t understand why you don’t want a return of
compi effects on cinnamon.

Clem (https://www.linuxmint.com)
It’s not possible to do it cleanly unfortunately. It could
result in some part of the window not being visible
(since widgets contained at the bottom don’t know
how to round themselves in GTK3). You can patch it on
74 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
your computer if you want but it will not work perfectly

with all applications: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome
/comments/hpcszm
/how_to_get_rounded_corners_on_bottom_left_and/
(https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/hpcszm
/how_to_get_rounded_corners_on_bottom_left_and/

Nich
Clem, try to round the edges at the bottom in the future
anyway, it will be very nice and stylish, maybe there will
be opportunities to do it.
Also, if possible, please implement blur or
transparency around the edges in the future, thank you!

angelo
thanks clem for the reply regards compiz will there be in the future for
cinnamon? ps.i abandoned ubuntu for mint i think your operating
system is the best.

Dirk Haar
At Reddit I read this comment about how a new user loving his new
installation.
This reply post
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/13el7er/love_it/jjqe74y
75 of 77 6/14/23, 11:47 AM
(https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/13el7er/love_it
/jjqe74y)
expressed the feeling most of us have, summarized:
Mint loves you back!
Should or could be a new slogan.
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Monthly News – March 2023

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In Linux Mint 21.1, we introduced the following improvements:

That said, a few issues caught our attention.

Have a look at the “Copy” menu item below:

In comparison, look at the menu item below:

or done badly, using mono icons:

Mint-Y-Legacy was renamed Mint-L.

Two-tone place icons

Here are a few examples, Aqua:

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April 3, 2023 at 2:15 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359941

April 3, 2023 at 2:22 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359947

April 7, 2023 at 8:54 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-361771

It’s a Mate (GTK) feature, not Mint issue, other distros

April 3, 2023 at 2:54 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359956

April 3, 2023 at 3:08 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359962

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April 3, 2023 at 2:54 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359957

let mono icons go. Thank you!

April 3, 2023 at 3:21 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359969

April 27, 2023 at 10:47 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-366152

If some people don’t like the folder stripes, let that be

April 3, 2023 at 3:26 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359971

I would like to inquire about a feature not found in Mintinstall, would it

April 3, 2023 at 3:31 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359975

The problem owes to this combination of state of affairs: the

April 3, 2023 at 3:37 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359979

April 3, 2023 at 3:51 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359984

Cheers and keep up the good work towards Mint 21.2.

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As for how feasible or hard it would be to create a tool

April 4, 2023 at 1:51 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-360470

Regarding the proper way to install themes, thank you

installs themes there when using it’s Themes de�nition

Thanks again JosephM for all your clari�cations and

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April 3, 2023 at 4:01 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-359986

Thumbs up for the rebirth of the darker themes!

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April 3, 2023 at 4:33 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-360002

– What is the future of the Ubuntu-based version of Mint given that

– Has LMDE 6 development started, given that Debian 12 development

– Will Cinnamon eventually be compatible with Wayland?

– Can we hope soon for Cinnanon compatibility with multi-GPU laptops

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April 13, 2023 at 10:46 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486#comment-364326

That article was an April 1st joke! Had me going for a