Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Jan 10)
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Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 6)
If you want to disable the auto-maximize and window tiling behaviour that happens when you drag a window to the top or side edges of the screen, you can do this:
gconf-editor
/ > desktop > gnome > shell > windows > uncheck "edge tiling"
Then logout, log back in.
Also, DockbarX is really great.
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/dockbarx ... eable.html
gconf-editor
/ > desktop > gnome > shell > windows > uncheck "edge tiling"
Then logout, log back in.
Also, DockbarX is really great.
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/dockbarx ... eable.html
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 6)
Definitely OKbimsebasse wrote:That's a good tweak, Middy, gonna put that in if it's OK.
Can see you're also enjoying the new zukini theme
Haha, nice call on the theme. I really like it!
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 6)
Thanks for this really great guide, makes Mint even more pleasurable to use
Would be a real feature though if the TOC entries were clickable ... Gnome3 will not go away,
so maybe would be worth moving this over to the WIKI ? You could still post updates in the thread ...
Cheers, A.
Would be a real feature though if the TOC entries were clickable ... Gnome3 will not go away,
so maybe would be worth moving this over to the WIKI ? You could still post updates in the thread ...
Cheers, A.
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 6)
WIKI?
For Mint ?
No
It was repeatedly spammed and vandalised so it was taken down over 2 years ago
For Mint ?
No
It was repeatedly spammed and vandalised so it was taken down over 2 years ago
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 6)
Missed this one!cocorocara wrote:just one more tweak please ...
the size of the icons in the Menu (alacarte) ...
i want to *increase* the size of the icons on the left ... the vertical box.
i went through the css for the menu but didn't see any reference to icon size ...
You can see in this theme screenschot: http://lgsalvati.deviantart.com/gallery ... 0#/d4eb6sk
... that it can be done, but haven't fiddled it with myself yet - download that theme and compare the .css to see if you can find the part that determines favourites bar icon size,
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
About 2l :
You can change in .css font-size to 6pt or 7pt
You can change in .css font-size to 6pt or 7pt
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.app-well-app > .overview-icon,
.remove-favorite > .overview-icon,
.search-result-content > .overview-icon,
#overview .journal-item {
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 6px;
font-size: 7pt; /* was 8pt */
color: white;
transition-duration: 200;
text-align: center;
text-shadow: black 0px 1px 2px;
border: 0px;
}
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
You can change the position of the dock (from dock extension) :
or in dconf-editor navigue to org/gnome/shell/extensions/dock and put left instead of right in field position
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gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dock position left
Increase notification area icon size
To increase the size of the notification area icons, which seem to me to be way too small: in gnome-shell.css locate the “.system-status-icon” value and change “icon-size” to, for example, 16px.
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 6)
hmmm ... now that the top and bottom panel fonts are fixed, i find that the fonts elsewhwere are still tiny. For example the drop down menus from the panels such as Calendar, the system settings, etc.cocorocara wrote:Thanx for the prompt reply! Finally I could fix that really tiny font!
CC
If only the keyboard shortcuts would work in MATE, I will switch to it immediately. This fiddling and tweaking is really not my cup of tea ...
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
It's all in the theme css file. But yes it would be nice with a GUI to handle these things - with all the shell users out there it can't be too long before we see either an expanded gnome tweak tool or a new program to tweak shell appearance. If Ubuntu had gone gnome shell instead of Unity, there probably would be at least one now.
You could also simply change theme to one with larger fonts, Mint-Z (and the Zukitwo theme it's based on) has smaller font than what is the norm for themes.
You could also simply change theme to one with larger fonts, Mint-Z (and the Zukitwo theme it's based on) has smaller font than what is the norm for themes.
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
Great tips!...
And to control system startup programs, I use rcconf, easier to look through list than have to edit each one separately..
--but there are others available, such as bum or sysv-rc-conf; they may be more or less complicated looking
http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2007/09/30 ... asily.html
And to control system startup programs, I use rcconf, easier to look through list than have to edit each one separately..
--but there are others available, such as bum or sysv-rc-conf; they may be more or less complicated looking
http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2007/09/30 ... asily.html
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
Thanks for the bleachbit tip! 2.3GB recovered from useless stuff!
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
Yes it's surprising how much useless fluff a standard linux OS actually has, and always feels good to run bleachbit the first time on a fresh install and see how much goes
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
Remove icon from application title:
This removes the icon from the application title in gnome 3.
1. Go to your shell themes directory
2. Open gnome-shell.css and find .panel-button #appMenuIcon
If your theme has multiple css files like mine (Faience)
grep -r 'appMenuIcon' *
To find which file it is in. (panel.css in my case)
Find
Change width and height to 0px;
Find
Change too:
Save, restart gnome.
Looks like this: http://www.keleko.com/images/gnome-application-icon.jpg
This removes the icon from the application title in gnome 3.
1. Go to your shell themes directory
2. Open gnome-shell.css and find .panel-button #appMenuIcon
If your theme has multiple css files like mine (Faience)
grep -r 'appMenuIcon' *
To find which file it is in. (panel.css in my case)
Find
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.panel-button #appMenuIcon {
app-icon-bottom-clip: 1px;
}
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.panel-button #appMenuIcon {
app-icon-bottom-clip: 1px;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
}
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.app-menu-icon {
width: 24px;
height: 24px;
}
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.app-menu-icon {
/*width: 24px;
height: 24px;*/
}
Save, restart gnome.
Looks like this: http://www.keleko.com/images/gnome-application-icon.jpg
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 6)
well i am interested but as a newbie that java dont look the same as i've got. Any suggestions ?Middy wrote:I don't know if anyone else would be interested in this, but after a little fiddling I discovered how to disable the display desktop icon/button.
Open usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/windowlist@linuxmint.com and edit the extension.js - Comment out line 715
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
New extension usefull to extend Window List when it is in top panel : https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/ ... -left-box/
Re: Mint 12 Tips & Tricks Guide (updated Dec 7)
Those who have the weather extension, are you having any trouble setting it for the center of the panel? Mine stays on the right for some reason. I have it set for center but evidently it prefers the right side. Lol