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That's an issue with your gtk theme, not the Cinnamon theme. Your buttons have a box-shadow that needs to be removed.

I'd appreciate some educated pointers as to what exactly could be the problem

Don't mess with your system python install if you don't know how to get back to what it should be. And maybe don't use unsupported versions of a distro if you want to use newer things.

I'm assuming you want something like the GOOGLEFINANCE() function in calc. It's a workaround but here is how someone made it work: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/live-stock-quotes/52843/7

The feature is still there and seems to work the same in 21.3. If you hover the top of the titlebar where the resize arrow shows and then double click, it maximizes vertically. Some windows, such as those that are client side decorated like Calculator, ignore this functionality. That's just a differ...

The Cinnamon spices were moved to being hosted in a Mint controlled github repo quite some time ago. This was one of the main reasons why. It means that any spices added or code changes to them have to be approved by Mint devs before they make it to a user. It helps to eliminate the possibility of t...

I would go with write the interface programmatically or use Glade. Either of those options should be fine. Glade really is just about convenience.

Don't know if the same thing is happening here but we've run into a similar issue before with icon views. Papirus ships all it's icons as .svg. Mint-Y ships it's icons as PNG's rendered from an svg source. We've seen proof in the past that the PNG icon themes rendered much faster in icon views and a...

For 2) hand coding or using Glade doesn't really matter. Glade is mostly used as a convenience and is not necessary.

and GDM, Gnome's display server, will break many things Mint-related.

Like what?

The inactive window will have the :backdrop class added to it.

Currently I don't believe there is any replacement for Plank currently.

I'm not sure about the display manager, do the DE's bring their own to the table? Because this is Workstation so I have Gnome, but I added Cinnamon for "casual" time and use Gnome when I want to focus hard on work. Cinnamon uses LightDM so it would likely have added that. Cinnamon doesn't...

After it crashes, you can check ~/.xsession-errors. It will often give you the reason so you have info to troubleshoot with.

How are comments shown without an app being selected?

They are shown directly under the app name for all apps.

I believe one of the 3rd party menus like Cinnamenu offers this functionality. You can get it from System Settings->Applets.

If they are both running LMDE 6 then chances are they are both running the Nvidia-525 driver. Others getting graphics with Cinnamon on Wayland have been using newer Nvidia drivers. Just as a side note, I can run Wayland on Mint 21.3 with an Nvidia 1060 and the 525 driver. There are issues due to it...

Don't know without knowing what was in it. I have seen the issue in the past where something in someones theme was managing to set a background color on the desktop window. The one that Nemo uses to hold the desktop icons. Since it was a solid color, it was covering the entire desktop and hiding the...

I don't use Themes, just a "picture" from a Camera with the lens blocked. that pictures is on my /home/pictures Partition, so it stayed with me. If you just want a black background you can go to the Background settings and set the picture aspect to "No picture". Then you can jus...

Not quite true. LMDE has all the same features that Mint Cinnamon (Ubuntu) has Actually, that's not true :) LMDE is missing some obvious things from Ubuntu like the Driver Manager. You seem to misunderstand the main reason that LMDE exists. It's a backup plan in case Ubuntu becomes unviable as a ba...

EDIT: Thanks for the help, as long as x11 works i'm giving a damn to wayland. That's fine. X11 is the current standard for LMDE 6. Unless one wants to help experiment, no one needs to use wayland. Just to back up what SMG said here. Not only is there no need to use Wayland, but if you aren't prepar...

If you're receptive to flatpaks, installing Oomox theme designer will go a long way to confirming whether or not you want to explore the mess that is theming in linux. You'll most like want to install gtk-3-examples and gtk-4-examples as well (both are in the Mint repositories) Invoke the widget-fa...