Complete Linux Mint Tutorial: Customizing The Desktop

[@coryedmundendrulatinhc8070]

Love Linux mint!! If my computers slow down, switching to Linux fixes everything! Support open source!! Your tutorials are the best, by the way! Really top of the line! Thanks!!

[@fymlinux]

Thanks for the compliment! And great that you found how Linux can breath new life into a slow machine. 😊

[@Bhupesh9c]

the most beautiful things around are always free like the air, the sun, mother earth and linux

[@fymlinux]

Perfectly said!!!

[@BishtBro]

lmao, true

[@simonzinc-trumpetharris852]

And wimmins

[@hiyatolol]

Poetic.

[@dustintheblindminnesotan]

My teacher uses your videos in his class because you do a very good job. Keep up the hard work and keep making free videos.

[@epukiro15]

I'm in the process of changing from Windows to Linux Mint and I'm finding this series of videos of great value, even though it's four years old. Many thanks for your time and effort!

[@DeathMelodies]

Very useful! Thank you for a comfortable and ease of learning experience. So far using and learning mint has been a joy because of people like you =)

[@lisemagdalen]

Thanks! I just booted Mint on my PC and I'm glad I did.

[@jimw7916]

Another marvelous feature is .....in the start menu, if you right click on an app, you have the option to uninstall directly without using a package manager or terminal. Also when u have a USB stick plugged in you can right click and you have the option to format it.

[@davidwayne9982]

GREAT video-- simple to the point NO fluff and long winded BS---- just GOOD INFO simply stated.. PERFECT. THANK YOU.

[@kjemradio]

One of my favorite Mint desktop themes (I forget the actual name) makes it look like Windows XP. So you get the blue tray, green Start button and the menu layout tat XP once had. I'm not sure if there was an XP control layout option (for the minimize, maximize and close buttons), but I tried to get as close to it with the available options. It would be cool if someone could go all the way back to 95, 98/SE, Mistake Edition #1 (aka Windows ME), for those retro Windows users.

[@fymlinux]

Nice, very nostalgic.

[@kjemradio]

@@fymlinux Indeed. I hope one day that Mint will have a server version to compliment the desktop. Yeah I do work with Ubuntu's server platforms, but Canonical's thought processes makes them closer to Cisco than a great platform. I'm looking at you Unity.

[@pioneer1131]

can someone PLEASE find one that makes it look, feel, and functionality of windows 7? thinking about switching to this distro, thje only thing stopping me is that im very new to linux and have no experience with linux, and as an experienced windows user i want it to be just like using windows without microsoft

[@riyadbarkley8703]

you're a Pro salesman, you make me want to have it and make it my default software to use, i'm fed up with windows 10 too damn slow and boring, Thanks for your Tutorials best Linux Channel

[@PoeLemic]

Again, great video. Love all of these. VEry helpful for newer Mint users.

[@bernym4047]

very useful, thank you. I was specifically looking for a way to adjust the size of the window control buttons (Close, minimise, maximise). It does not seem to be a feature.

[@derricknyakundi1985]

Wow dude you're finally back welcome back.

[@fymlinux]

Thanks so much! Yeah I totally failed, my day job kept me so busy I couldn't make time for this channel. But now I'm back and here to stay! Lots of new videos in the works. 😊

[@roviotech9072]

I'm using this distro right now and already like it!

[@avyj84]

Good info thanks. I'm using Cinnamom 20.3 for first time after years of Mate. Problem, I want the "Modern panel layout" but every time I start up or wake it up it seems to revert to the traditional. Odd, cannot find and answer. Any ideas?

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

Thanks for this video. My desktop is much darker now. I love it.

[@jpthinks]

With the work spaces, can you change the desktop background for each workspace individually. And can you rearrange desktops?

[@markmorris8177]

Need help booting my system Getting can't find cinnamon. I enter my password and computer won't let me boot into my system. Can you help or recommend help? Only able to get to LM psw entry. Really sorry if this doesn't help much. Thanks in advance...

[@DeathStriker88]

How can I increase screen brightness in linux mint cinnamon? I am trying the entire day, searched tons of sites, watched tons of video but nothing happened. I am having a serious migraine due to low brightness, please help me

[@shreyassiyer]

MIND BLOW!!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯😍😍😍😍 Loved Linux mint. love your detailed explanation. You made my day watched all of your linux mint videos again and came back for the customisation video. I have very old HP Compaq presario m2000 was trying install vista but this caught my mind hopefully system requirements meets up so tht i can have this AMAZING OPERATING SYSTEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 🤗🤗🤗 GOD BLESS YOU.

[@WalterPetrovic]

In your tutorial series, do you have 2 part 5s?

[@SillyOmega]

You forgot right clicking home button. And customizing it.

[@TIMMYTIMP1403]

hi ..your videos are great very helpful but i dont understand how to open downloads..right click and open with applications but i dont know what downloads i open with which application..can you help please

[@MrPlazma]

Can I share folders with 7zip, from Linux Mint to a Windows 11 PC? For example i have text files in a folder, i zip it, then upload it to a website. Can i open it in windows? I mean, extract since it was zipped in linux.

[@MrCrazyjoe259]

So many more options than windows 11 in 2024. They recently even made it so that you couldn't move the taskbar to the top! That's an option that every OS should have..

[@dorianshepherd5287]

Is Matte also capable of such heavy customization, or is this a Cinnamon feature only? I can't find out, and it's preventing me from making a decision between the two...

[@debeeriz]

ln mint 19 l made a duplicate cinnamon menu applet and moved it to applets in the home folder, edited it to remove lock screen and log out and reduced the font size on favourites so i can carry more favourite icons without the need to scroll, l have carried the files over to 20.2 because i prefer that than making the menu bigger when you add extra favourites

[@debeeriz9669]

if you want different folder colours in nemo it only will work with mint y icon base

[@Stephens8x6Workshop]

Very helpful to this newbie of Linux. Subbed, liked and rang your bell :-)

[@normanacunis2381]

You are talking about a lot of things in the panel area. However I cannot see where the cursor is or what you are hovering or clicking on

[@AcidiFy574]

BTW, how do we change the theme of Root applications ?? (superuser apps like synaptic)

[@reflexsamurai958]

Thoroughly enjoy this tutorial video and thank you. I am going to ask a silly question as i could not figure out the resolution on the panel frame as the text are much too small and I could not adjust the scaling properly or the proportional right ? I've been using firefox. Can you help? thanks in advanced.

[@alexsandrasvlog2252]

Thanks alote

[@johanb.7869]

Lots of flickering. Do you have NVidia? If yes tick off allow flipping in NVidia settings.

[@MrBulldog125]

how do you install the nvidia drivers ?

[@professorprocos5398]

@@MrBulldog125 Open terminal. 1) ubuntu-drivers devices it should show you a list of drivers, install the recommended one, for ex mine was nvidia-driver-440 as such: 2) sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440 now open the driver manager app and switch to the graphics driver you installed and restart hope this helps

[@MrBulldog125]

@@professorprocos5398 Thanks for your reply I did work it out in the end :)

[@Xtrems]

I love those little stutters and unsureness in his voice, it's so cute

[@johnprosser2142]

Anyway to put "Computer" icon in panel??

[@sidzej670]

nice tutorial bro

[@MaxProgramming]

My favourite topic...

[@bijoukoba]

Which version are you using? I have Linux Mint 21 and the interface looks pretty different.

[@bolaaccorinti3308]

Thanks for these videos mate :)

[@Germoney2000]

I'm running Linux Mint on a Thinkpad T420... it's very snappy for a 10 year old computer.

[@bloxibomb5017]

How can I install a custom log in theme

[@giuseppeignone9481]

how can i move single icons in the center of panel?

[@timecubed]

Idk why but I thought practically ever Linux Chad (nerd) was just used to writing a dedicated renderer in C just so they can have little transparent windows

[@OmarImrharn-s5l]

Compllete instatllation aulready done even after the installation. I'll not repeat again.

[@kevinhani295]

Hi u know how to reste or restore the panel ??

[@jacobharvey8021]

How do i change the font of the menu (the one that opens when pressing the Windows button)? I have fully customized my fonts for the os and my browser, but I can't find a way to change the home menu font...

[@debeeriz9669]

you would have to edit the cinnamon menu applet, i changed mine to delete the log off and lock screen i copied the applet from usr/share/cinnamon/applets and put the applet in my home folder under cinnamon/configs easy to screw up so add another menu, have 2 and work only on one, once you get it the way you want it you can remove the other menu, or if it refuses to load delete menu in the configs folder and restart cinnamon or add another menu applet to the panel

[@abdullah-oguk]

You should edit cinnamon(Desktop) theme file. Grab a regular theme and edit "./cinnamon/cinnamon.css" file then activate it. It is a normal CSS file. Just edit "font-family" part inside "stage" selector. Then all the panel, panel right click menus and other panel related fonts will change.

[@DrRjDrummer]

how to change the icon font colour

[@Kenji1685]

what keyboard is that?

[@joseph15625]

What version is this?

[@senzikal]

You kinda sound like Xaryu

[@masterivann6416]

id rather use xfce since ive heard that has better performance

[@Germoney2000]

I tried using Xfce, parallel to Cinnamon... it takes longer to boot. Cinnamon is more polished, but Xfce is good if you have an older computer.

[@debeeriz]

i am with you i have the panel at the top in linux mint but i dont like it in windows, i dont auto hide though. i hate the standard icons so l use gnome and tux as a mouse pointer

[@villatori654]

Is this a good tutorial? I can't see dislikes :(

[@CesarPeron]

"customization"

[@This-Is-The-End]

What are those glitch like 7:38 ?

[@johanb.7869]

Flickering. If you have NVidia card tick off allow flipping and that should fix it.

[@MegaLokopo]

Instead of having themes or maybe alonside themes, why doesn't mint simply let you choose what color you want things to be directly in the gui like how windows does?

[@Tubeytime]

probably for extensibility I'd guess

[@sqtapnic]

this could be a 5 min vid

[@cpuwrite]

Are you people ever going to learn? You've got space for a video description for a reason. I don't know how many of these tutorials I've gone through where the thing just gives a one-sentence description of the video without any forethought as to what could REALLY be done with that space. And I've lost count of the number of videos I've had to give this critique of. I'm running low on patience. Has it occurred to ANY of you to post a table of contents? Links to the individual tutorials in the series? Or a master page with those links? That way, someone like me who just noticed that there is no link to the next video in the series isn't SOL. You gave the titles of the videos in the first one, could you at least have thought to include them in ALL the videos in the series? Would that be too much? I mean, I know that I'm a teacher's son and wrote a few of these things in college (halfway decent tutorial on vi, was still in use five years after I graduated (graduated in '85 or '86), BTW, but vim made it semi-obsolete), but do those meager credentials give me the experience to notice such obvious flaws when the people who made the series don't? This isn't rocket science. This would be a pretty darn good set of tutorials if you could just get to them all.

[@fymlinux]

Well said, I’ll have to work on implementing those suggestions. 🙂