French version with additional tweaks at www.linuxmint-fr.org - maintained by Major Grubert.Thanks for all the tips in the thread, some good Gnome Shell tips haven't been added as that section is getting out of hand already and I gotta keep it down to the most useful (as far as I can guess what is useful to an average Minter)
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Please note: these tips are for - and tested in - MGSE, the default Linux Mint 12 login session, the one that looks like this. Use them in other distros, other desktop environments and other login sessions at your own risk. I don't think many of of these are of much use to MATE or Gnome Classic users. Unless otherwise noted all tips have been tested on my machine but I cannot guarantee that they work for you as well as they did for me. If you're not comfortable running terminal commands, ask in the thread if there is another way of applying the fix.
1. System
a. Get all programs and services back in Startup Applications
b. Create desktop launchers
c. Get the screensaver back
d. Configure window buttons
e. Disable Guest session login screen option
f. Login automatically to your session
g. Advanced power settings
h. Icons duplicated?
i. Remove MATE icons from Gnome Shell menus
j. Remove MATE altogether
k. Disable bluetooth on startup
l. Configure auto-mounting of drives
m. Reduce laptop screen brightness persistently
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z. Don't like Mint 12?
2. Gnome Shell
a. Browse official Gnome extensions
b. Recommended extensions
c. Disable the bottom panel
d. Get Mint logo corner ripple
e. Change the default theme overview button image
f. Disable the Native Window Placement extension
g. Less spacing between notification area icons
h. Deactivate top left hot corner
i. Change size of overview grid icons
j. Get full(er) Icon captions (application names) in the overview grid
k. Activities button behaviour in single panel shell setup with Mint menu
l. Change Mint Menu font size
m. Permanently hide bottom notification bar
n. Disable window edge tiling ("Aero snap")
o. Disable the Show Desktop panel icon
p. Clock in the middle of panel
q. MGSE with MATE bottom panel
- NB: as the Mint themes and extensions are in the Mint PPA, they will be updated occasionally and whatever changes you make to the theme/extension system files will be overwritten each time. A way around this is to copy the theme/extension folders and use the copies for your fixes. That way you won't get updates for themes and extensions, but you won't lose your tweaks either. You can also just apply your tweaks after each update, doesn't take too long once you get the hang of it.
3. Applications
a. Install Ubuntu One
b. Install USC (Ubuntu Software Center)
c. Manage grub settings with Grub Customizer
d. Lose excess weight with bleachbit
e. Install Google Chrome
f. Jupiter for burning laptops
g. Tweak Gnome 3 with Ubuntu Tweak
4. Themes and appearance
a. How to install window themes
b. How to install icon themes
c. How to install Gnome Shell themes
d. Change login screen background
e. Updated version of Mint's icon theme
1a. Get all programs and services back in Startup Applications
You may have noticed Startup Applications is now a rather empty place and that's because most entries are now hidden by default. To unhide everything:
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sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktopBefore:
After:
If the "GNOME Login Sound" entry isn't showing on your list (and you want it to), try opening "libcanberra-login-sound.desktop" as root:
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gksu gedit /usr/share/gnome/autostart/libcanberra-login-sound.desktop1b. Create desktop launchers
By default in Mint 12 you can create a new folder or a new document in the desktop right click context menu, but not a new launcher. To get that option, simply open gedit, paste the following line into the document
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gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new
Right click the file and under the "Permissions" tab make sure "Allow executing file as program" is checked. Done. Now you can right click on the desktop and choose "Create New Launcher" under Scripts:
Create a launcher for e.g Firefox like shown
Success:
1c. Get the screensaver back
Modern hardware has long since rendered the need for screensavers obsolete and Gnome 3 no longer includes them by default - you have to install xscreensaver if you miss it anyway:
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sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra
1d. Configure window buttons
)Windows buttons can easily be configured in the new Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 (see 3g) so if you're not comfortable executing terminal commands, use that instead.)
If you prefer buttons on the left side (Ubuntu and Mac style):
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gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/button_layout "close,maximize,minimize:"
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gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/button_layout ":close"
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gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
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gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/button_layout ":minimize,maximize,close"1e. Disable Guest session login screen option
Open "lightdm.config" as root:
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greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=gnome-shell
allow-guest=false1f. Login automatically to your session
Open System Settings and find "User Accounts" - unlock in top right corner and turn automatic login on.
1g. Advanced power settings
The Gnome 3 power settings are bare minimum and in order to do some more advanced fine tuning, you can install "dconf Editor" and edit the relevant strings manually:
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sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
1h. Icons duplicated?
I had this happening after logging into MATE and back into Gnome Shell, most application icons had both their Mint-X theme icons and their inherited Gnome icons visible. To undo this, install the for some reason no longer included by default program "Main Menu" (aka alacarte):
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sudo apt-get install alacarte
As an alternate method, some users have had more luck simply uninstalling the "menu-xdg" package. Consider trying that if you can't get the above to work.
1i. Remove MATE icons from Gnome Shell menus
Using alacarte (see previous fix), easily hide the out of place MATE icons (the red car with open hood "Configuration editor", "Sound Recorder" and "Volume Control") from all your Gnome Shell menus by unticking them in the categories "System Tools" and "Sound & Video" - don't untick the proper square icon "Sound Recorder" supposed to be visible in Gnome Shell.
You can also do this manually by navigating to ~/.local/share/applications/ and delete the "mate"-prefixed .desktop files.
1j. Remove MATE altogether (fix by user runol)
If every single mb is important to you or you just don't even want the option of logging in to MATE, it can be expunged with this command:
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sudo apt-get remove 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-menu1k. Disable bluetooth on startup
Open rc.local as root:
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gksu gedit /etc/rc.localCode: Select all
rfkill block bluetooth
exit 01l. Configure auto-mounting of drives
By default, when you insert a USB or an external harddisk, nautilus opens a window AND a system notification pops up asking you if you want nautilus to open a window.
If this bugs you (I can't see why it shouldn't!), there are a few options:
Pop-up notification only:
Install "dconf Editor":
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sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
No pop-up and no window:
Find "Removable media" in the "System Settings" menu, check "Never prompt or start programs on media insertion".
Removable drive top panel icon:
A neat little extension that adds a removable drives icon to the top panel when you insert one, from there you can then choose to open a nautilus window or eject. Get it at the Gnome extensions website (remember the site only works with Firefox).
1m. Reduce laptop screen brightness persistently (tip by user esteban1uy)
You can change screen brightness in the Screen settings dialog, but it won't be persistent, you must repeat it every time your boot up your laptop. This has bugged many users so thanks to esteban for pointing to a relatively easy fix.
First you have to find out what the "max_brightness" is on your system. Navigate to "/sys/class/backlight/" and in a relevant subfolder (mine is named "acpi_video0") find the "max_brightness" file and make a note of the number in it, mine was "15", esteban's was "976", yours may be a third number - this is the numerical value of your maximum brightness setting. Then create a start-up script to reduce brightness:
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#!/bin/sh
#change brightness setting on startup or resume
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gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.input-devices hotplug-command "/home/USERNAME/.lowerbrightness.sh"1z. Don't like Mint 12?
If the new Gnome 3 desktop environment frustrates you, consider logging into MATE. MATE is a Gnome 2 fork and works and looks like the old Gnome 2 desktop, albeit with a few hiccups that haven't been ironed out yet, but it's getting there. Change login session by clicking the cog wheel next to your username from the login screen.
Short video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNEB-fXBhoc
2a. Browse official Gnome Shell extensions
The long-awaited GNOME Shell Extensions website is now up and running. This will be the place from which you customize and enhance you shell setup, in a way similar to how Firefox addons work for Firefox. The site is in alpha and so far only works with Firefox. I've tested a few extensions and the installation process works perfectly (no progress bars to indicate installation process, though), just remember to reload the shell (press ALT+F2, press r, press enter) every time you install an extension.
2b. Recommended extensions
appSearch for Mint
This was a thoroughly brilliant idea - install software from Mint's repositories via the overview search/filter box. If you want to install e.g. Skype, simply press the Windows key, type "skype" and press enter, then you're installing it. It even makes CTRL+ALT+T + "sudo apt-get install skype" seem cumbersome, and yet it's all GUI.
Hide dash
Dash, the vertical left favourites bar in the overview, disappears with this extension activated. It's a little weird at first but after a while you've forgotten about the favourites bar and don't want it back - creates more space for windows and apps.
Jump lists
Or quicklists as they're called in Unity - this makes the above mentioned favourites bar much more useful if you don't want to remove it.
Remove Bluetooth
A must if you never connect to bluetooth devices - removes the bluetooth icon from the panel.
Remove Panel App Menu
The little focused window button at top left next to the overview button is useless if you use the MGSE bottom panel, and, well, also useless if you don't.
These are not yet on the site but can be installed through the webupd8 ppa:
- gnome-shell-extensions-autohidetopbar
Self-explanatory, toogles top panel autohide mode on and off by simply double clicking on the panel.
- gnome-shell-extensions-weather
Find your city on weather.com - on the city page, copy the last 8 letters of the url in the address bar (e.g. DAXX0009 for Copenhagen, Denmark), paste it into the WOEID field in the extension's preferences and press enter (the code for Innsbruck, Austria is there by default, so you can skip this step if that's where you live!).
2c. Disable the bottom panel
Simply turn off the bottom panel extension with Advanced Settings under "Shell extensions". This moves Mint menu and the minimized window tabs up in the top panel, if you also want those gone, turn off the menu extension and the window list extension as well.
2d. Get Mint logo corner ripple
Best tweak! In action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28hy6m-AQc
Method: Download the attached corner-ripple-ltr.png. Head to usr/share/themes/Mint-Z/gnome-shell/ as root. There's a file already there of the same name, rename it so it doesn't get overwritten, then move the downloaded mint logo into the folder. Reload the shell or choose another shell theme with gnome tweak tool and choose back again. Mint ripple, baby. (Shout out to boss man justviper @ deviantart who I nicked it from.)
2e. Change the default shell theme overview button image
Open the default theme's gnome-shell.css file as root:
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/* Replaces the activities text with a custom image. Height and width should use the same size as the image file. */
// #panelActivities {
border: none;
background-image: url("start1.png");
background-position: 0 0;
width: 58px;
height: 24px;
color: rgba(0,0,0,0.0);
}
// #panelActivities:hover {
transition-duration: 300;
background-image: url("start2.png");
background-gradient-direction: vertical;
background-gradient-start: rgba(140,200,255,0.0);
background-gradient-end: rgba(61,149,231,0.0);
box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.0);
}
// #panelActivities:active,
// #panelActivities:overview {
background-image: url("start1.png");
background-gradient-direction: vertical;
background-gradient-start: rgba(140,200,255,0.0);
background-gradient-end: rgba(61,149,231,0.0);
box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.0);
}2f. Disable the Native Window Placement extension
Because this has a bug where it moves window captions in the overview half into the window title bars for the infinitesimal benefit of showing windows slighly more accurately where they are placed on the desktop in the overview, consider turning it off.
2g. Less spacing between notification area icons
Almost all available shell themes set a very wide spacing between the icons (panel buttons, to be exact). To get less spacing, open the css file as root:
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gksu gedit /usr/share/themes/Mint-Z/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.cssCode: Select all
.panel-button {
-natural-hpadding: 6px;
-minimum-hpadding: 6px;As this pushes the username button up against the screen's right edge, also set the top panel border-right to 6px instead of 0px, like so:
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#panel {
border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
border-top: 0px;
border-left: 0px;
border-right: 6px;
border-radius: 0px;
After:
2h. Deactivate top left hot corner
if this thing bugs you (there are already two other ways of opening the overview), disable it by opening layout.js as root:
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this._corner = new Clutter.Rectangle({ name: 'hot-corner',
width: 1,
height: 1,
opacity: 0,
reactive: false })2i. Change size of overview grid icons
Open the default theme's gnome-shell.css file as root (or obviously the relevant other .css if you have changed theme):
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/* Apps */
.icon-grid {
spacing: 16px;
-shell-grid-item-size: 118px; /* was 118px */
}
.contact-grid {
spacing: 16px;
-shell-grid-item-size: 272px; /* 2 * -shell-grid-item-size + spacing (was 272px) */
}
.icon-grid .overview-icon {
icon-size: 64px;
}
And this is with "-shell-grid-item-size: 64px" and "icon-size: 48px":
2j. Get full(er) icon captions (application names) in the overview grid
The icon captions in the overview application grid can only take up one line and can't stretch beyond the icon, so a lot of application names are cut short:
The only "fix" I know for this is to make the icons bigger and thus give more horizontal space for text titles. Open the default theme's gnome-shell.css file as root (or the .css for whatever theme you use):
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.icon-grid {
spacing: 16px;
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.icon-grid .overview-icon {
icon-size: 128px; /* was 64px */
}
2k. Activities button behaviour in single panel shell setup with Mint Menu (fix by user gorellana09)
If you have disabled the bottom panel extension and still keep the Mint menu extension, your activities button will be pushed to the far right of the panel:
f you'd rather have it next to the menu button, open the Mint menu extension.js as root:
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/* if (!bottomPosition) {
// Move Activities button to the right and change its label
Main.panel._leftBox.remove_actor(activitiesButton.actor);
Main.panel._rightBox.insert_actor(activitiesButton.actor, Main.panel._rightBox.get_children().length);
activitiesButton._label.set_text("-");
} */
2l. Change Mint Menu font size
Open the menu extension stylesheet as root:
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.category-button {
padding-top: 7px;
padding-left: 7px;
padding-right: 7px;
padding-bottom: 7px;
font-size: 16px; /* new line */
font-weight: normal;
}
.category-button-selected {
padding-top: 7px;
padding-left: 7px;
padding-right: 7px;
padding-bottom: 7px;
color: white;
background-gradient-direction: vertical;
background-gradient-start: rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
background-gradient-end: rgba(255,255,255,0.08);
box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.06);
border-radius: 4px;
font-size: 16px; /* new line */
}
16px is of course just an example, you can choose whatever suits you.
2m. Permanently hide bottom notification bar
Open the default theme's gnome-shell.css file as root (or the .css for whatever theme you use):
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/* Message Tray */
#message-tray {
background-gradient-direction: vertical;
background-gradient-start: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
background-gradient-end: rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
border-radius: 0px;
border-bottom: 0px;
border-left: 0px;
border-right: 0px;
color: white;
height: 0px; /* was 36px */NB! This worked smoothly for me but if you're experiencing the same as lurkatron, try to change to 1px instead of 0px.
lurkatron wrote:regarding changing the height of the message tray to 0px i found that crashing my gnome3 and when logging in im left with a desktop without panels. changing it to 1px however worked and no crashes and no message tray visible that i can see
2n. Disable window edge tiling ("Aero snap") (tip by user borfo)
I.e. auto-maximize when you drag windows to the top of the screen and window snapping when you drag to left and right edge. Launch "Configuration Editor" (gconf-editor), navigate to desktop/gnome/shell/windows and uncheck "edge_tiling"
2o. Disable the Show Desktop panel icon (tip by user Middy)
Open the Window list extension extension.js as root:
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// Create a show desktop button
// Main.panel._leftBox.add(button.actor, { x_fill: true, y_fill: true });2p. Clock in the middle of panel
That's where the clock is by default in "vanilla" Gnome Shell. In Mint the notification extension moves the clock to the right in order to free up space for notification area icons to expand left. To get the clock back in the middle you can either disable the notifications extension or tweak its extension.js, like this:
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/* Move Clock to the right */
// let _children = Main.panel._rightBox.get_children();
// Main.panel._centerBox.remove_actor(clock.actor);
// Main.panel._rightBox.insert_actor(clock.actor, _children.length-1);2q. MGSE with MATE bottom panel (tip by user dalcde)
I haven't tried this myself but if you disable the MGSE extensions ("Menu extension" + "Bottom panel extension" + "Window list extension") and add "mate-panel" to startup applications (see 1c on how to add entries to Startup Applications), then you'll get MATEs bottom panel with the good old full-featured Mint Menu instead of the MGSE facsimile, within a Gnome Shell session:
With MGSE top panel not set to autohide:
dalcde has not disabled the MGSE specific extensions in the screenshot above - I think that's worth doing to avoid unnecessary duplication and to keep the shell from running more activated extensions than it has to, if you're gonna try this out.
3a. Install Ubuntu One
Add the Ubuntu One stable PPA:
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk ubuntuone-client
3b. Install USC (Ubuntu Software Center)
There was a time when Mint's Software Manager could look down on Ubuntu's Software Center - with the revamped USC 5, tables have turned and Software Manager now feels like a truncated and outdated version of the big brother counterpart (despite being definitely on the sluggish side) with options to e.g. easily view installed or installable packages by PPA among other basic functionality currently missing in Software Manager. Installing it does pull 50mb of dependencies, though.
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sudo apt-get install software-centerThe Ubuntu default "Startup Manager" is something bordering on useless and wisely has been dropped in Mint 12, but that leaves Mint without a grub editing GUI. The best available grub manager application I know of is Grub Customizer:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
With it you can easily choose which entries you want to appear in the grub menu, rename them, set timeout, set default boot, set kernel parameters, change text and background colour and more.
3d. Lose excess weight with bleachbit
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sudo apt-get install bleachbit
3e. Install Google Chrome
If for some reason Chromium (Chrome minus the dodgy) doesn't cut it for you, install Chrome with these commands:
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stableThis creates two identical sources and therefore an update error - so open "Software Sources" and in the tab Other Software, remove one of the "http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/" lines (if there are 2). That's it, launch Google Chrome:
3f. Jupiter for burning laptops
Like many others I've had problems with excessive laptop power consumption in Linux for some time now. Occasionally the CPUs just take off as if you were watching 3 HD movies simultaneously. Read the Phoronix article on the issue for more info. Adding kernel parameters hasn't really worked for me, what has worked is the Jupiter power management applet. To install it:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/jupiter
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install jupiter
Worked brilliantly for me despite some terminal error messages on installation - no more CPUs suddenly for no apparent reason going into overdrive - not guaranteed to work for everyone, but worth trying if you have similar issues. If you're using "Power Saver" mode by default, remember to change setting to at least "High Performance" before watching videos of playing graphics heavy games.
3g. Tweak Gnome 3 with Ubuntu Tweak
Finally the new version is out. It has a revamped interface and a few less tweaks than in previous versions (tweaking Gnome 2) but is still as useful as ever. Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 is of course designed for Ubuntu 11.10 and a few tweaks like "Compiz Settings" and user menu settings under "Session Control" won't work in Mint 12, but most of the tweaks work in Mint 12 as well.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
The repositories handling and especially purging repos is unfortunately gone but it still has a handy little source editor:
It also features some advanced system cleaning options:
(I use Mint-Xtra, an updated and cleaned icon theme for Mint (see 4e) - if you're using the Mint default Mint-X, spot the slightly embarrassing mistake in the Ubuntu Tweak screenshot below
4a. How to install window themes
2 great web resources for GTK3 window themes:
Deviantart
gnome-look.org
Example, install GnomishDark window theme:
Download the compressed folder and unzip it. Right click on the extracted folder and choose "Open as administrator". In the new root nautilus window that opens, press F3 to get an extra pane. In the one pane, navigate to usr/share/themes/, in the other stay in your download folder. Move the extracted theme folder into /usr/share/themes/:
Then launch "Advanced Settings" and set both "GTK+ theme" and "Window theme" to GnomishDark:
Reload the shell for theme to be fully in place (press Alt+F2, press r, press enter). Some themes come with an installation script and a few you can install via PPA but most themes you'll have to install like this. NB: Your themes must be compatible with your current shell version. Most available Gnome 3 window themes are made for version 3.0, not 3.2, and they won't work properly in Gnome 3.2 (current version in Mint 12).
4b. How to install icon themes
2 great web resources for icon themes (well, same as above):
Deviantart
gnome-look.org
Most of the popular icon themes for linux come with either installation scripts or have a dedicated repository you can add.
The probably most popular icon theme "Faenza" can be installed by adding the repository:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alecive/antigone
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install awoken-icon-theme
The icon themes that don't come with installation scripts or PPAs you install the same way you install window themes (see 4a above), except the downloaded icon folder must be moved to "/usr/share/icons/" instead of "/usr/share/themes".
4c. How to install Gnome Shell themes
Once again, the 2 best places to find Gnome Shell themes are:
Deviantart
gnome-look.org
Download and extract the theme folder into /usr/share/themes/ the exact same way you do with window themes (see 4a above) and select it with the Advanced Settings tool:
"Minty" is a recommended dark shell theme designed for Mint and customized to work with the MGSE extensions. It can be previewed here and installed like this:
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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-theme-minty4d. Change login screen background
(This can be done easily in the new Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 as well (see 3g), so of you're not comfortable editing system files, use that instead.)
Open "unity-greeter.conf" as root:
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background=/home/brian/Pictures/green.jpg4e. Updated version of Mint's icon theme
See the Mint-Xtra thread.
Mint-X:
Mint-Xtra:
Mint-X:
Mint-Xtra:
Mint-X
Mint-Xtra
Mint-X
Mint-Xtra
Mint-X:
Mint-Xtra
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