how to make my linux mint look like this?

[hollow tusk]

i am informed that this is gruvbox linux setup

the other one you see is my current linux desktop

i want to setup my linux to look like the image, so i was wondering how i can do it.

[red zinc]

you can see in the first pic, in the neofetch the DE: is Hyprland

Hyprland is a window manager (not a full desktop environment) it also requires Wayland graphics platform, which I believe Mint does include.

this is a great deal of work to put all that. plus configuring after.

It's also very difficult to remove

Make a Timeshift snapshot and INCLUDE USER HIDDEN HOME FOLDERS/FILES in its settings wizard. before any core system modifications that can brutally wreck your system and desktop.

perhaps after check Distrotube hyprland vids on YT about the matter.

[hollow tusk]

🥀

[abstract stream]

Well, maybe you can find a community theme that looks nice to you. Open to settings>theme and click on advanced. Try.

[tawny siren]

A design like this is very hard to do in Mint
100% not possible using native stuff specially if you decided to use cinnamon
the reality is that mint cant be customized thaat much without using hacky stuff that might become an issue later down the line when updating

if you want good customization while keeping stability i would recommend Debian with KDE

whcih also comes with wayland

if u just want transparency you can use devilspie2 and write .lua scripts into the config for it for example containing

   set_window_opacity(0.85)
end

in order to get a class u need u can do

xprop | grep CLASS

add devilspie2 to startup

[stuck ore]

@hollow tusk
I replicated that theme you just wanted, modifying the OrchideaDock theme for you, here are some steps (NOT AI generated, and took me one hour and half to write every step, mods you should only delete the cinamon.css file I gave if you find that one suspicious, but please dont delete anything else, I gave steps to make the theme themselves).

Install OrchideaDock theme from themes app.
Press Ctrl+E open your file manager, double click the adress bar and paste that 👇 (yes with that ~ line too, so you dont have to write /home/username/ )
~/.themes/OrchideaDock/cinnamon/cinnamon.css
Either download the message.txt that I will send (but I'd rather you not, and you try to go through these steps yourself cause imagine if the file would have malware), if you downloaded that, rightclick, cut, go to the folder opened before 👉 ~/.themes/OrchideaDock/cinnamon/cinnamon.css and then paste it there, click replace
Or follow these steps (takes maximum 2 minutes, and it'll be easy)
Open that cinnamon.css file, press Ctrl+F to search, search panel-bottom until you find what you have in the first image; then in second image I show what to copy.
Then search panel-top, look at third image to see what select to delete, paste there, save the file. Open themes app, change your theme of desktop to anything else, wait one second, switch to OrchideaDock again to have the theme refreshed.

[hollow tusk]

i'll give it a whirl

[stuck ore]

If you just want to skip those steps of replacing the text, but you should NOT trust anyone giving you anything to paste in your terminal or anywhere in your pc, NEVER trust any source at all, but here's the file, I honestly say it's just modified to what it's in the screenshot, but the mods should delete it if they want.

Now you need to move the items in your panel (applets), right click and press panel edit mode.
You need to drag the icons to the clock you have in the middle - horizontal panels are split in 3 zones: the left, middle and right. The theme we just modified has that dark background only on the middle zone, right where you have your clock right now. (dont worry about the 3 panel zones ever disappearing, lets say if there's no items in left you'll still be able to move any items/applets to the left zone in panel edit mode)
Applets used: grouped window list, separator, (the | line) system tray, a lot of "spacer" ; Menu, separator, Calendar, a lot of "spacer" again, enhanced sound, mic mute toggler, network manager, separator, power manager. You'll need to download enhanced sound, and mic mute toggler from applets.

For transparency there's a very simple extension you can use, Opacity slider, just select it and click the plus to have it active. Now active, you when you right click, some of the apps will let you make them transparent by lowering the opacity. It's kinda buggy sometimes and remains stuck there and your inputs touch the app, the only fix I found was to move the app window away just a bit so I can touch it when this right click menu is only hovering the desktop.

Comparison:
1st image, original
2nd image, the replication. The wallpaper I used 👉 https://www.pexels.com/photo/4x4-truck-on-a-desert-10099902/

In some apps (this one is ms edge), right click on the bar shows this (1st image), and I clicked to use the system title bar & indicators but it doesnt work even after restarting the app. So the fix is (2nd image) to rightclick on the minimize button, then you can change transparency.

[hollow tusk]

any suggestions for a windows tiling manager?

[stuck ore]

I don't know anything about that @kind nimbus @red zinc would know

[kind nimbus]

I don't know anything bout tiling managers on Linux

I just use Cinnamon

[stuck ore]

U were an arch user :C

[kind nimbus]

No?

[hollow tusk]

I'm using Orchidea theme

not OrchideaDock*

[kind nimbus]

I have only booted EndeavourOS in a VM and used SteamOS for a while, just to replace it with Bazzite

[hollow tusk]

but it shouldn't matter to the changes i am making right?

.panel-bottom {
  border-radius: 12px 12px 0 0;
}

[stuck ore]

Oof, it will, just read whats on the screenshot and write it like that

In the panel-top paste this
.panel-top .panelCenter {
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}

@hollow tusk

[stuck ore]

The only thing is you need this text to be written for it to look that way, nothing will be different.

I'm trying to make my own theme from a few themes, I totally dont know to change anything other than panel 😭

[hollow tusk]

including the .panelCenter?

[stuck ore]

Yes, you need it

It will make it so it's not spread like a normal panel, but only shows for the middle zone

You can change the background color's numbers, if you tell me a color I'll tell you what to replace the rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); with

Or just search on the web rgba values for purple and replace the first 3. the __ 4th number is for the transparency of your panel__
You can change those 3 numbers up to 255, if all 3 are 255 it will be white, if all 3 are 0 its vantablack

[hollow tusk]

what exactly changed for .panel-bottom.panelCenter?

i'm not seeing any differences

[stuck ore]

Nothing changed, you only paste the same thing, what matters is where you paste it to start with panel-top / have panel-top written before it

[hollow tusk]

.panel-top.panelCenter {
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
  border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}


.panel-bottom.panelCenter {
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
  border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}

[stuck ore]

Perfect :D

[stuck ore]

Oh wait

You didn't add the space before the .panelCenter

.panel-bottom .panelCenter

[stuck ore]

Oh I forgot to mention, you should change the panel height so it looks closer to the screenshot you sent

[abstract stream]

You did something lovely and amazing !

Out of curiosity, what tools did you use to modify Mint's css? Just Vscode?

I've been looking for a long long time to find theme building tools to create my own theme for Mint.

[stuck ore]

Just the default text editor

I don't know of other text editors, there's notepad++ but it was hacked once, I don't know if they resolved it

[abstract stream]

Trial and error? Even more lovely, you'd deserve flowers, if you're a woman 😄
Well, I'm used to use IDE tools for code projects, otherwise it takes a lot of patience to work with parameters

[crude musk]

That's literally the dumbest thing i ever heard

Hyprland is not even available on mint

[primal condor]

you can force it to be available, it's just a dumb idea

[spice crest]

These are some really well written and detailed instructions, even I could follow them easily (which is great because I've been trying to figure out cinnamon ricing for a while and I HATE trial and erroring it)

[stuck ore]

Where can I find them? Thank you so much for telling me about this, I searched on youtube for tutorials but weren't

[spice crest]

I was talking about yours! I love how you explained this whole thing and I didn't know about extensions like opacity slider which is pretty cool

[stuck ore]

Oh sorry I'm very slow 😅

[spice crest]

Cinnamon ricing tutorials are indeed non-existent tho :/ I made myself a custom theme using themix (you can find it on github)

It's not perfect but I'm not good enough at digging through GTK css files to find the correct places in the code I need to adjust

[stuck ore]

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