#Costumization suggestions for newcomer

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knotty turret
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I am new to the Linux community and I just managed to reinstall Linux. I don't know how window tiling works and also how to make my environment more beautiful like all those amazing arch environments with pipes going around and weird but beautiful things going on. I know that on mint XFCE all these things might be restricted but I am sure I could make some things work to look beautiful.

knotty turret
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Like these

solar jay
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i3wm, picom, polybar, nitrogen, and rofi is a good start, just make sure to download the updated configs and versions. An example would be picom not being the latest version on the software manager which is why you would need to learn how to build it using the yshui picom repo.

Happy Ricing!

fleet saddle
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you currently have

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you can't auto-tile on any Linux Mint distro

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you can have windows snap to corners by dragging though

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if you want easy auto-tile, ready out of the box, use Pop OS

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If you want to be on Linux Mint, cinnamon desktop, then see #1370807950557577247 message @knotty turret for XFCE, see pling.com

fleet saddle
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especially what he says at 0:44

knotty turret
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But I don't know if there is something more fancy than this

fleet saddle
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picom is strictly a compositor. its only job is to do transparency. XFCE uses xfwm as its window manager to draw and manage windows. you can look in Window Manager/tweaks settings in XFCE Control Panel to adjust properties and effects of the window composition.

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see #1370807950557577247 message

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you can also easily install TWISTER UI onto Mint xfce, and have many looks, ready to go.

knotty turret
fleet saddle
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you can establish a login sound fairly easily using a command called aplay and a microsoft wav audio file (any file, as long as it's in simple ms wav format)

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you can put a cute screensaver, mint xfce may have some already included.

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you can recolour the pane or adjust its opacity, using panel preferences... add a dock as I posted about above in the ricing link