Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Jan 10)

[Daniel4lm]

Does anybody remembers dark-glass shell Gnome theme? This theme is designed for for the now "old" Gnome 3.01. I made a version for Cinnamon.



Themes link

[kmb42vt]

Does anybody remembers dark-glass shell Gnome theme? This theme is designed for for the now "old" Gnome 3.01. I made a version for Cinnamon.



Themes link

Many thanks for porting over these themes. I have both installed now and they look great. Good to see themes being ported to Cinnamon.

[bimsebasse]

Nice one, Daniel - are you porting a white (Elementary or classic -mint-ish) theme as well? Coz then I can take off my to-do list

And now I have you, I can't for the life of me remove/hide the workspaceswitcher from Cinnamon, not on theme level and not by editing the "main" and "panel" js files, whatever I try b0rks the shell. Any ideas?

[Daniel4lm]

Does anybody remembers ...

Many thanks for porting over these themes. I have both installed now and they look great. Good to see themes being ported to Cinnamon.

Certainly thank you, this is my small contribution.

Nice one, Daniel - are you porting a white (Elementary or classic -mint-ish) theme as well? Coz then I can take off my to-do list

And now I have you, I can't for the life of me remove/hide the workspaceswitcher from Cinnamon, not on theme level and not by editing the "main" and "panel" js files, whatever I try b0rks the shell. Any ideas?

I ported Elegance because I generally like dark themes. I can port Elementary theme, but I don't know which one to take (there are several or more on gnome-look.org and deviant). I will try to contact satya164 about Minty theme. Maybe he tries to port Minty theme.
Well I realy don't know for workspaceswitcher, because it is a newer piece of code. I guess you are saying about the workspace switcher in the bottom panel(right corner). I'll look a bit later for that. Perhaps jou can try to contact Clem about this(at github), give a suggestion/idea or something similar.

[bimsebasse]

I always use dark themes as well but I'm very slightly worried the current wall of grey default cinnamon theme will find its way into Mint 13 unless a classic Mintish white theme becomes available to use as a base if nothing else for an official Mint theme - you know, soft white gradient panel. Don't know the good light shell themes either for the same reason you don't, but Elementary is big on deviantart and they have a handful of light Elementary shell themes.

I won't bother Clem with a proposed option to hide the workspaceswitcher as he probably likes it there and has plenty more important things to do

[zerubbabel]

How can I add a launcher to the menus (not the favorites or the panel)? I want a launcher for system-config-printer, which I can make on the desktop, but I don't want it cluttering up the desktop. The printer applet in the "System Settings" collection of applets is lame, and doesn't give access to all the printer settings.

[kmb42vt]

Does anybody remembers dark-glass shell Gnome theme? This theme is designed for for the now "old" Gnome 3.01. I made a version for Cinnamon.



Themes link

I'm using this theme now along with Eleganse. One thing i noticed in Dark Glass was that when Firefox is already running and clicking a link in Thunderbird (for example) for a website that's not already open in Firefox, the alert pop up that states: "Firefox Web Browser '[site name]' Mozilla Firefox is ready" shows black text on a dark gray background and is not readable. Once the site is loaded in Firefox though, clicking on the link again in Thunderbird, the pop up alert shows white text on a dark gray background as it should and includes a snippet of text from the open site rather than just the text shown (in black) in the first pop up alert. Again, this is when Firefox is already running. if Firefox is not running and a link in Thunderbird is clicked, Firefox simply starts up and focus it shifted to the browser without an alert.

This does not happen using Eleganse or the default Cinnamon theme. Could possibly confirm this either way?

[z06gal]

@Daniel

Porting minty would be great. Love that theme. Thanks

[shalom938]

Great post!

when I go to the shell extensions web site there is a 'installed extensions' link, how do they know which extensions i have installed???

[bimsebasse]

Checking your ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions directory I suppose. In my experience only the extensions installed from the site are visible in the "installed extensions" section (or only extensions placed under ~/.local, not extensions in usr/share/gnome-shell...).

[Daniel4lm]

I always use dark themes as well but I'm very slightly worried the current wall of grey default cinnamon theme will find its way into Mint 13 unless a classic Mintish white theme becomes available to use as a base if nothing else for an official Mint theme - you know, soft white gradient panel. Don't know the good light shell themes either for the same reason you don't, but Elementary is big on deviantart and they have a handful of light Elementary shell themes.

I won't bother Clem with a proposed option to hide the workspaceswitcher as he probably likes it there and has plenty more important things to do

Yes there are many elementary themes. I managed to port ElementaryOS (now called eOS) theme, but it's also a darker theme. Perhaps GNOME Shell - Elementary by half-left will be good. satya164 will port his theme(Minty) soon.

Does anybody remembers dark-glass shell Gnome theme? This theme is designed for for the now "old" Gnome 3.01. I made a version for Cinnamon.



Themes link

I'm using this theme now along with Eleganse. One thing i noticed in Dark Glass was that when Firefox is already running and clicking a link in Thunderbird (for example) for a website that's not already open in Firefox, the alert pop up that states: "Firefox Web Browser '[site name]' Mozilla Firefox is ready" shows black text on a dark gray background and is not readable. Once the site is loaded in Firefox though, clicking on the link again in Thunderbird, the pop up alert shows white text on a dark gray background as it should and includes a snippet of text from the open site rather than just the text shown (in black) in the first pop up alert. Again, this is when Firefox is already running. if Firefox is not running and a link in Thunderbird is clicked, Firefox simply starts up and focus it shifted to the browser without an alert.

This does not happen using Eleganse or the default Cinnamon theme. Could possibly confirm this either way?

I have not so far noticed this with Firefox, because I'm using Chromium. This theme is very old, but I'll look at that and try to correct this.

@Daniel

Porting minty would be great. Love that theme. Thanks

I have already contacted satya164 (creator of this theme) on the deviantart. He said that he was already started to working on Minty Cinnamon version but this will take some time. Greeting

[bimsebasse]

@Daniel

Porting minty would be great. Love that theme. Thanks

I have already contacted satya164 (creator of this theme) on the deviantart. He said that he was already started to working on Minty Cinnamon version but this will take some time. Greeting

Sounds good - I'm half-finished with a light Cinnamon theme.

[z06gal]

Wow! Thanks!

[Daniel4lm]

@Daniel

Porting minty would be great. Love that theme. Thanks

I have already contacted satya164 (creator of this theme) on the deviantart. He said that he was already started to working on Minty Cinnamon version but this will take some time. Greeting

Sounds good - I'm half-finished with a light Cinnamon theme.

You are creating your own theme or ...? half-left told me that he has no plans for porting his Elementary(light and Luna) themes for Cinnamon (because he does not use Cinnamon).

[bimsebasse]

Yes, not a port as such, a new theme inspired by a few light gnome shell themes - ran into some problems, though, it's very laggy, slower than both the default theme and Eleganse. Did you have issues with sluggishness porting your themes?

[Daniel4lm]

Yes, not a port as such, a new theme inspired by a few light gnome shell themes - ran into some problems, though, it's very laggy, slower than both the default theme and Eleganse. Did you have issues with sluggishness porting your themes?

Well I do not know how to say, slowness is determined by the amount of style details that you have in the topic (at least I think so).
such as background-color: ... or background-gradient-direction: ... is not the same in the speed of the display, transition-duration: also determines the speed. I think it is a good way to use the original Cinnamon theme(if you are not already). I hope I helped you at least a little

besides this (regarding to your post before), if you want to remove the workspace switcher in the bottom panel:

Code: Select all

gksudo gedit /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/panel.js

          ...
979    this._menus.addMenu(this._dateMenu.menu);
980       
981    this._workspaceSwitcher = new WorkspaceSwitcher.WorkspaceSwitcher();
982    //this._rightBox.add(this._workspaceSwitcher.actor);
983
984    /* right */
985    if (global.session_type == Cinnamon.SessionType.GDM) {
       ...


But the workspace switcher still works (Ctrl Alt <-->) but not visible on the panel.
If you want to restore a11y icon(same file):

Code: Select all

       ...
37    const STANDARD_STATUS_AREA_ORDER = ['a11y', 'keyboard', 'volume', 'bluetooth', 'network', 'battery'];
38    const STANDARD_STATUS_AREA_CINNAMON_IMPLEMENTATION = {   
39        'a11y': imports.ui.status.accessibility.ATIndicator,
40        'volume': imports.ui.status.volume.Indicator,
41        'battery': imports.ui.status.power.Indicator,
42        'keyboard': imports.ui.status.keyboard.XKBIndicator   
43    };
      ...


[bimsebasse]

Cheers! Thought I tried commenting out that line but maybe not, that's excellent.

Gradient heavy styling probably comes at a cost but I hope it's just one of those transition duration things I've forgotten to delete.

[cavedweller]

Thanks for this thead. After installing cinnamon and dconf Editor and killing the Overview in the upper left corner this thing called Gnome 3 becomes usable again. If there was a tweak in there to adjust the panel height a little my old eyes would be happy.

[z06gal]

Thanks for this thead. After installing cinnamon and dconf Editor and killing the Overview in the upper left corner this thing called Gnome 3 becomes usable again. If there was a tweak in there to adjust the panel height a little my old eyes would be happy.

You can change panel height in the cinnamon.css directory. Once in that directory, I think it is line 555 or so but I changed mine to 30 and it is much better. Go to usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css and you can access it there

[Fantu]

I had used this command for remove MATE, probably more good:
sudo aptitude purge caja gir1.2-mate-menus libcaja-extension libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmateweather mate-backgrounds mate-conf-editor mate-control-center mate-desktop mate-doc-utils mate-file-manager mate-media mate-menus mate-notification-daemon mate-panel mate-polkit mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-terminal menu-xdg mint-artwork-mate mintmenu python-mate-desktop python-mate-menu mint-meta-mate

I had aptitude purge instead of apt-get remove and add mint-meta-mate

Edit:
I try gnome-shell-extensions-weather, installed from ppa, restart gnome-shell, but not work, restart system, nothing, change configuration and do update of webkitgtk from same repository but nothing, someone can help me please to solve this problem?
Edit2: gnome-shell-extensions-weather problem solved, it was disabled on install and must be enabled, sorry