Linux Mint Post Installation Issues

Description:

After installing Linux Mint with the KDE desktop I did a couple things after install to tweak the OS to my liking.

1. To Get Desktop Icons To Have White Text:

   • Go to /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/ and add the following text to the file named gtk.css:

   .nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item {
   color: #FFFFFF;
   text-shadow: 1px 1px @desktop_item_text_shadow;
   }
   .nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item:selected {
   background-color: alpha(#D64A38, 0.9);
   background-image: none;
   color: #FFFFFF;
   text-shadow: none;
   }
   

   • You can replace Adwaita with whatever theme you’re using and the color codes to whichever colors you choose (#FFFFFF is for white, which is perfect for me)

2. To Install Cinnamon Along Side KDE:

   • First, get familiar with these 3 packages:
     • kWIN => desktop manager => wobbly windows/ etc.
     • Compiz => Desktop manager
     • Fusion => For multiple desktop environments, you can switch between them.

3. I ran apt-get install cinnamon. This will install Cinnamon.

4. After I installed Cinnamon on top of KDE and rebooted, I lost a lot of changes that I had made on the Cinnamon DE (desktop environment) and it would only let me login to my KDE DE.

   • To Fix:
   • In the KDE DE, I went to Configure Desktop => MDM (login Window section) => and changed the sections that checked the “Limit Session Output” and “Filter the session output”.