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    Customise Mint

    Jul 28, 2020 4 minutes

    Besides the theme and palette changes available from the Welcome screen (or the preferences area) there’s an awful lot you can do with the Cinnamon desktop. Unlike Gnome, Cinnamon lends itself to customisation. You can add all manner of desktop widgetry from the Desklets application, and you can tweak desktop effects (and even tune the acceleration curve of the various swooshings). Furthermore, there are all kind of gizmos you can add to the taskbar in the Applets section. All of these additions, known as spices, can be browsed at the official website at https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com.

    REBEL WITH A CAUSE “One minor scandal with this release is that Mint is defying Ubuntu’s fondness for its own Snap application packaging format.”

    Cinnamon is,

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