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Default icon sets received HiDPI icons with Mint 19 release, and there were some more HiDPI related improvements. If switching to Mint 19 is not an option, you could download the updated icons packages separately, that might be enough to solve at least your icon problems. You could also try to upgr...

Cinnamon itself, along with the tools created by us, support HiDPI quite well. There are things to keep in mind though. One is that it only supports integer scaling. So if you buy a 13" screen with a 3840x2160 res it will be an effective 1920x1080. That can be quite small. Not really Cinnamon's faul...

Just an FYI. An update to mint-themes should be showing up that fixes this issue.

Regarding the title of this thread, I'm glad my wife didn't say that about me!! For 18 years I've worked for her like a solid Linux distro, and she's never distro-hopped, so looks aren't everything if all you need is a reliable workhorse. I just wish I could run some kernel updates on myself (witho...

So, a bit more info. I've now seen this issue with the nvidia driver with Cinnamon on Mint18.3, Mint19, and with Gnome shell on Ubuntu 18.04. It also happens on a range of drivers including the 396 drivers that someone above says fixes it. It can sometimes just happen few and far between.

I have noticed that, as you mentioned, some windows don't honor them but it seems to work right for 98% of them so that's good enough for me :D I guess it could generate support questions, though. It's 98% for you but it depends on the user. A lot of apps are going that way. It boils down to the fa...

The word systemd can't get brought up without all the same arguments being mentioned. None of them change the answer to the original question though. LMDE really only exists so Mint wouldn't be left high and dry if something bizarre suddenly happened to Ubuntu. It's a backup plan. It's just being a ...

trytip wrote: ⤴

Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:48 am

i hear that cinnamon does not use metacity-1 only metacity-3 that's where i changed the button color

Yep. For Cinnamon make your changes tin the metacity-3 file.

I haven't tried these, but nice job smurphos. Obviously some users appreciate you doing this. Now that these work flawlessly, let's hope they get included in the distro again The original versions are still shipped with the distro. They just don't show in Cinnamon chooser for window borders. Mint al...

Seriously. What is your intention here? You seem to be dedicated to the idea of coming on here to try and drum up some sort of bad feelings toward the Mint developers. Warning for Cinnamon user; Because of some design decision, applications that use widgetset ICCCM compliant (like GTK, Qt, ...) shou...

Just change the theme. Mint19 uses a new default but the theme used in 18 is still there. Open the main Cinnamon menu and type "themes" in the search box. Choose the Themes application. Once there change your Controls and Window borders themes to Mint-X.

hope anyone reading this reads those linked threads and draws their own conclusions. My conclusion: I hope that this issue only concerns the Cinnamon project. And that the core developers of Mint (and Mate) are other people. Fre;D You're likely to be disappointed then. Many of the Cinnamon devs are...

This is actually a good question. In my opinion since you are already a forum member, the first place you should bring up your problem is here on the forums. Do a quick search. See if there are other threads about people having the same issue and read them. If you don't find anything, open a new thr...

@MDM - One of the most entertaining things I've read in awhile. I feel like someone had a lot of free time today :) Debian-based distros use Mint software? I think you wrote that statement backwards. Hopefully, your editor will catch it before the Advanced Reader Copy gets released. This actually is...

This information does not appear in my LM-MATE 18.3, nor does it appear using flatpak info.

I'm am using Mint19 here and I know there were a good bit of improvements to how flatpaks are handled. Could account for the difference.

I hope anyone reading this reads those linked threads and draws their own conclusions. This all started when I, justifiably, closed the original bug report. The difference between github and the forums is that a closed issue on github can still be posted in/edited/fixed and reopened if need be. Ther...

A user selects the Software Manager and clicks the "Flatpak" button: 1. It is not clear that the Search is global and does not apply just to flatpaks. It would be helpful if the Search Hamburger Menu had an option to only search flatpaks or debs. There is a button right next to the search entry tha...

Summerof69 wrote: ⤴

Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:36 am

Great!
Just out of curiosity, is there any potential danger if a user chooses to run a Cinnamon panel at the top and a Mate at the bottom?

Not that I intend to do that.

Danger? No. Your computer won't explode or anything Not sure what issues it could possible cause though. Never tried it.

mate-panel is installed as part of Cinnamon. When Cinnamon crashes it uses marco/mate-panel as it's fallback mode so you still get a useable desktop to work on fixing the issue.

If possible in your situation create two separate user accounts. I do this often when having multiple desktop environments installed.