one of the best alternatives to Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS. - Linux Mint / Cool desktops don’t change

• Linux Mint Releases - and ubuntu correspondance
  • linux mint 21.3 (virginia) <-> ubuntu Jammy 22.04 LTS
  • linux mint 21 (vanessa) <-> ubuntu Jammy 22.04 LTS
• Wayland - wayland is coming

Linux Mint 21

• display manager is lightdm

Add Application to Cinnamon Menu and Panel

Add an entry in /usr/share/applications with the name of the <desired_name>.desktop and with content (see also Recognized desktop entry keys):

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=2.9.9
Name=Newshosting
GenericName=Newshosting Launcher
Type=Application
Exec=/bin/sh -c "/home/scking/newshosting-2.9.9/newshosting.sh"
Icon=/home/scking/newshosting-2.9.9/64x64_newshosting.png

When complete, save this file and using chmod, give it 644 permissions:
sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/applications/newshosting.desktop

BUT it will be erased when a package add the very same entry. So for custumisation of an existing entry, it’s better to first copy it locally to your user config:

cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

Custimoze the launch command for eg, then run update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/ - it should now override the /usr/share one.

Cinnamon Add shortcut to panel

This require to add the launcher app to panel (default panel, allows only unpin, not add)

Recent files - pull up the menu, type ‘privacy’

File Explorer Nemo

• ThumbnailFactory
• One can add custom thumbnail generators by adding configuration files in share/thumbnailers. Typically: /usr/share/thumbnailers/ or ~/.local/share/thumbnailers
  • Custom thumbnail generators - bwrap hardening - Thumbnailer for APK files
    • STL Thumbnailer
    • openscad/stl
• disabling thumbnail cache

Post install fix

• Failed to start casper-md5check Verify Live ISO checksums

Updating

• How to upgrade to Linux Mint 20
• How to upgrade to Linux Mint 19
  • sudo touch /etc/timeshift.json