Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Jan 10)
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Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
@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...
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...
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
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:
+
... 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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.icon-grid {
spacing: 16px;
-shell-grid-item-size: 160px; /* was 118px */
}
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.icon-grid .overview-icon {
icon-size: 128px; /* was 64px */
}
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;
}
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
This thread is for fixes, not for dreams
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
OK. I will try to push it directly to Gnome. If you know the best way to proceed?
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
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
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
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
It's attached to the first post.
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
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.roger64 wrote:
OK. I will try to push it directly to Gnome. If you know the best way to proceed?
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
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?
This is very annoying.
I tried all settings in dconf-tools, even with active=off.
Can someone help me?
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
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
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
Thanks a lot for this Useful Guide....this solved my problem....double icons.....Cheers Mate....
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
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.
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
You talk about Screen settings; where exactly can i see these?bimsebasse wrote: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
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
Press the windows key, type "screen settings", press enterjessy wrote:You talk about Screen settings; where exactly can i see these?bimsebasse wrote: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
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
Thank you, i feel very stupid that i did noit see this.bimsebasse wrote:Press the windows key, type "screen settings", press enterjessy wrote:You talk about Screen settings; where exactly can i see these?bimsebasse wrote: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
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
Don't worry, I haven't gotten used to the new settings menus either and still find surprises in there
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
Maybe you want to add this one http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 03#p506603 to this collection of tweaks. The illogical order of things when bottom panel is disabled was driving me nuts.
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 1)
Yup, nice tweak! - will include it next update and credit it to you.