How to customize Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon?

Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon comes with the latest Cinnamon desktop environment. Like any other release, some users prefer Cinnamon, while others consider the interface outdated. I would like to say that you can use whatever you like. After all, this is one of the concepts advocated by the Free Software and the Free Software community.

Currently, I am using KDE on my primary computer, but after the advent of the latest GNOME 3 (GNOME 3.8), I plan to use the GNOME shell desktop instead and use several plug-ins for customization. Long live freedom!

This introduces the topic of this article: How to customize Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon. There are not many customization aspects, but if I want to use Cinnamon desktop on the master computer, these changes are what I need, so that the desktop is suitable for my computer.

Related reading: Linux Mint 15 official version released

1. Hot Corner: One of the most annoying features I 've encountered on KDE and GNOME 3 is Hot Corner. If I move the mouse over it, the desktop looks completely different. What's going on? The mouse cursor moved to the hot zone.

In Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon, the hot zone is located in the upper left corner of the desktop. If you cannot tolerate a hot zone like me, the following describes how to disable it.

From the Settings manager of Cinnamon, click Hot Corner ). By default, the hot zone is enabled in the upper left corner of the desktop. The default effect is Expo (Display) mode. To disable a hot zone, select Disabled from the drop-down menu ). In this way, you can deal with hot zones.

2. Add small applications such as Expo (Display) and Scale (Scale) to the Panel: Although I think the hot zone is annoying, the triggering effect is actually very useful. This effect means that the Expo mode can be reduced to display all the work zones or virtual desktops on the system. By default, there are two work zones. The other mode is Scale, which can be scaled down to display all the windows opened in the current workspace. To further control when the presentation and scaling modes are activated, I think the better way is to add the Expo and Scale applications to the Panel. In this way, I only need to click a small application to trigger the corresponding effect.

To Add a small application to the Cinnamon panel, right-click the panel and select Add applets to the panel (Add the small application to the panel ).

The Applets window should open. Find the Expo (Display) Small application. Select it and click Add to panel (Add to panel. Repeat the steps for small Scale applications.

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