benchristel / Mint-X-Hacks

Learning about GTK3 and Cinnamon, experimentally

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Mint-X-Hacks

This is a copy of Mint-X, one of the built-in desktop themes for Linux Mint. It includes some changes I've made to learn how to create themes.

The original code (among other things) is here: https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes

Note: I'm not affiliated with Linux Mint, I just use their software.

Installation

You'll need the Cinnamon variant of Linux Mint. I've only tested this theme on version 20.3.

Clone this repo into ~/.themes/. Then run the install.sh script.

Development

To reload the theme, run ./swap-themes.sh. This will briefly swap the theme to a different one and back to osx. Most apps will redraw in response.

You'll probably want the GTK inspector for debugging. Run:

apt install libgtk-3-dev
apt install dconf-editor

And enable the inspector by running dconf-editor and changing org.gtk.Settings.Debug.enable-inspector-keybinding to true.

Then you can hit ctrl+shift+I in any GTK app to open the inspector.

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