Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Jan 10)

[roger64]

@bimsebasse

I have a 15 inch screen. A solution displaying the whole name is really needed. Now, with this one line only display for example, I get on my screen five different : "Gestion..." - short for Gestionnaire in French, but Gestionnaire means only manager, but manager for what? I would know it only if the second or third line was displayed. How can I remember which icon is which program? Names have been created for that purpose...

It's a very generic problem for Gnome3 users.

PS/ One Inspector Clouzeau type remark for French (and probably most non-English) users.
In French, the Desktop is called Bureau. In other languages, it can have other names than Desktop.
When you create a new launcher (see 2b), you need to write "Bureau" (or whatever you need in your language) instead of "Desktop" in the text of the script...

[bimsebasse]

Ah, OK, one thing you can do about that is to increase icon size as the icon captions can only be as wide as the icons:

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.icon-grid {
    spacing: 16px;
    -shell-grid-item-size: 160px; /* was 118px */
}

+

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.icon-grid .overview-icon {
    icon-size: 128px; /* was 64px */
}

... which - on my laptop - results in this:


You can also decrease the font size but it is already down to 8 in Mint's default theme - if you have owl vision, change the font-size to something less than 8pt in this bit:

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.app-well-app > .overview-icon,
.remove-favorite > .overview-icon,
.search-result-content > .overview-icon {
    border-radius: 4px;
    padding: 3px;
    border: 1px rgba(0,0,0,0);
    font-size: 8pt;
    color: white;
    text-align: center;
}

[roger64]

Ah, OK, one thing you can do about that is to increase icon size as the icon captions can only be as wide as the icons .../...

But here, it seems we can have the best of both worlds: a medium-sized icon and a full text (one, two or three lines if need be)

[bimsebasse]

This thread is for fixes, not for dreams

[roger64]

OK. I will try to push it directly to Gnome. If you know the best way to proceed?

[Major Grubert]

Any idea to make the text under the icons in "application view" in a better way ?
Actually we only have the beginning of the text and some "..." after.
And to make difference beetween :
LibreOffice ...
LibreOffice ...
LibreOffice ...
LibreOffice ...
LibreOffice ...
LibreOffice ...
It's very hard.

Regards.

Thx for all tips & tricks

Edit : sorry I haven't read previous messages

[nachostoppani]

--- nobluetooth.icon@panel.ui.zip ---
Where can I download this?
Thanks,

[bimsebasse]

--- nobluetooth.icon@panel.ui.zip ---
Where can I download this?
Thanks,

It's attached to the first post.

[bimsebasse]

:lol:

OK. I will try to push it directly to Gnome. If you know the best way to proceed?

No idea - maybe their forum (if they have one)? It is an annoying thing and I'm sure most GS users agree with you that the caption shortening is a flaw that needs to be dealt with.

[jessy]

After 10 minutes of inactivity my screen .still blanks, en i have to give my password.
This is very annoying.
I tried all settings in dconf-tools, even with active=off.
Can someone help me?

[bimsebasse]

If you have set the screen to never turn off in Screen settings, and it still doesn't work, then I have no idea what's wrong

[jimmy_noob]

Thanks a lot for this Useful Guide....this solved my problem....double icons.....Cheers Mate....

[Artichoke]

I like the look of the desktop in 2A. I could work with that. I'll have to keep an eye out for when you've ironed out the bugs, not being competent/knowledgeable enough myself to make a decent contribution.

[jessy]

If you have set the screen to never turn off in Screen settings, and it still doesn't work, then I have no idea what's wrong

You talk about Screen settings; where exactly can i see these?

[axel668]

Thanks man, really made my day !!

[bimsebasse]

If you have set the screen to never turn off in Screen settings, and it still doesn't work, then I have no idea what's wrong

You talk about Screen settings; where exactly can i see these?

Press the windows key, type "screen settings", press enter

[jessy]

If you have set the screen to never turn off in Screen settings, and it still doesn't work, then I have no idea what's wrong

You talk about Screen settings; where exactly can i see these?

Press the windows key, type "screen settings", press enter

Thank you, i feel very stupid that i did noit see this.

[bimsebasse]

Don't worry, I haven't gotten used to the new settings menus either and still find surprises in there

[gorellana09]

Maybe you want to add this one http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=205&t=87797&p=506603#p506603 to this collection of tweaks. The illogical order of things when bottom panel is disabled was driving me nuts.

[bimsebasse]

Yup, nice tweak! - will include it next update and credit it to you.