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Axel wrote:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-mint-22-3-beta-released

Whoa. regex in Nemo's search function; someday I should become more
acquainted w/ it.
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On 12/22/25 6:16 PM, Mike Easter wrote:

Axel wrote:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-mint-22-3-beta-released

Whoa. regex in Nemo's search function; someday I should become more acquainted w/ it.

I ran it up for <10 mins to test my themes, icons, and cursors.
No issues there. Not sure I like the menu but there might be ways of changing some of it.

My Nemo has regular expression in the text field of search. 22.2 not 3 yet.
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On 2025-12-22, Alan K. <alan@invalid.com> wrote:

On 12/22/25 6:16 PM, Mike Easter wrote:

Axel wrote:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-mint-22-3-beta-released

Whoa. regex in Nemo's search function; someday I should become more
acquainted w/ it.

I ran it up for <10 mins to test my themes, icons, and cursors.
No issues there. Not sure I like the menu but there might be ways of changing some of it.

My Nemo has regular expression in the text field of search. 22.2 not 3 yet.

I don't like the new Menu at all. I'll probably stay at 22.2 for the
duration.
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

I ran it up for <10 mins to test my themes, icons, and cursors.
No issues there. Not sure I like the menu but there might be ways of changing some of it.

My Nemo has regular expression in the text field of search. 22.2 not 3 yet.

I don't like the new Menu at all. I'll probably stay at 22.2 for the duration.

I completely agree with you, overcrowded and not configurable. I don't
like where Cinnamon is going. My old eyes hurt, such tiny icons for the
"window control buttons", flat design, and the same color for the
front and back window menus. This might be the last straw for changing distributions :-(

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On 22/12/2025 23:12, Axel wrote:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-mint-22-3-beta-released

I find it strange that the reviewer didn't know that Nemo had the
capability of a two-pane view, as I've been using it since I started
with Linux Mint years ago. It's the easiest way to drag'n'drop files and folders, especially those from/to a USB stick.

He said that "I didnrCOt know that Nemo supports dual-pane file management (aka rCySplit ViewrCO) rCo probably because it required knowing to press the F3 key to activate it". Well, surely if you're reviewing something you
should have a look through the menus to see what's there. And, of
course, the View menu has "Split screen" - F3.

The new menu looks fairly customisable, but even if it isn't exactly to
my liking it won't be a dealbreaker.
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On 12/23/25 4:40 AM, yossarian wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

I ran it up for <10 mins to test my themes, icons, and cursors.
No issues there. Not sure I like the menu but there might be ways of changing some of it.

My Nemo has regular expression in the text field of search. 22.2 not 3 yet.

I don't like the new Menu at all. I'll probably stay at 22.2 for the
duration.

I completely agree with you, overcrowded and not configurable. I don't
like where Cinnamon is going. My old eyes hurt, such tiny icons for the "window control buttons", flat design, and the same color for the
front and back window menus. This might be the last straw for changing distributions :-(

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Ryzen 7 5700G, Radeon RX9060XT, 32GB of DRAM.

What do you mean by front and back window menus?
If you mean windows in the front (focus) and other windows,
I use this logic in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
Just add it to the bottom. You could probably add it to gtk-4.0/gtk.css too.

/*********************************************************/
/* customized titlebars */ /*********************************************************/
:not(.maximized) decoration { /* not full screen, colorize all around*/
border: 2px solid shade(@theme_selected_bg_color, 0.8);
border-radius: 0px;
background: shade(@theme_selected_bg_color, 0.8); }
:not(.maximized) decoration:backdrop { /* not selected, not full screen*/
border: 2px solid #5a5a5a;
background: #5a5a5a; }

.titlebar:not(headerbar) .title, headerbar { /* maximized */
min-height: 42px;
padding: 0 6px;
color: @theme_selected_fg_color;
font-weight: normal;
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, shade(@theme_selected_bg_color,1.1),
shade(@theme_selected_bg_color, 0.6)); }

headerbar:backdrop { /* not focused */
min-height: 42px;
color: #FFFFFF;
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, shade(#808080,1.2), shade(#808080, 0.6)); }

/* ssd titlebars */
.default-decoration {
border-radius: 0px;
min-height: 32px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: @theme_selected_bg_color;
color: @theme_selected_fg_color; }

.default-decoration .titlebutton {
min-height: 32px;
min-width: 32px;
color: @theme_selected_fg_color; }

window.ssd headerbar.titlebar {
border-radius: 0px;
padding-top: 3px;
padding-bottom: 3px;
min-height: 32px; }

window.ssd headerbar.titlebar button.titlebutton {
padding-top: 3px;
padding-bottom:3px;
min-height: 0px;
color: @theme_selected_fg_color; }

/* */
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On 2025-12-23, yossarian <> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

I ran it up for <10 mins to test my themes, icons, and cursors.
No issues there. Not sure I like the menu but there might be ways of changing some of it.

My Nemo has regular expression in the text field of search. 22.2 not 3 yet.

I don't like the new Menu at all. I'll probably stay at 22.2 for the
duration.

I completely agree with you, overcrowded and not configurable. I don't
like where Cinnamon is going. My old eyes hurt, such tiny icons for the "window control buttons", flat design, and the same color for the
front and back window menus. This might be the last straw for changing distributions :-(

--
Linux Mint 22.2 kernel version 6.14.0-36-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8 AMD
Ryzen 7 5700G, Radeon RX9060XT, 32GB of DRAM.

I found out (from a poster at Reddit) that changing the 22.3 Menu to the
22.2 Menu is trivial.

Just copy the Menu "applet" (folder) from 22.2 at...

/usr/share/cinnamon/applets

...and save it somewhere.

Then delete the new Menu in 22.3 (same location), paste the old Menu there
and then delete the Menu on 22.3, log out, and login and reinstall the Menu from the Applets app. You've got the old Menu.

I guess you could also put the old Menu at...

~/.local/share/usr/cinnamon/applets

In my test I put the old Menu in both locations, but that probably was overkill.

I tried this on a Live USB. I assume it would work the same on a full
install.
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:56:21 -0500
"Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> wrote:

On 12/23/25 4:40 AM, yossarian wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]
[...]

I completely agree with you, overcrowded and not configurable. I don't
like where Cinnamon is going. My old eyes hurt, such tiny icons for the "window control buttons", flat design, and the same color for the
front and back window menus. This might be the last straw for changing distributions :-(

--
Linux Mint 22.2 kernel version 6.14.0-36-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8 AMD
Ryzen 7 5700G, Radeon RX9060XT, 32GB of DRAM.

What do you mean by front and back window menus?
If you mean windows in the front (focus) and other windows,
I use this logic in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
Just add it to the bottom. You could probably add it to gtk-4.0/gtk.css too.

I am aware of that script, but it doesn't solve tiny icons for the
windows control buttons, flat design and new menu. I have other part of
script that solve the size of icons but it looks no good in my 1440
resolution. And space sensitive to click is still small.

/* Uncomment this section to increase the size of the icons. */
/*
headerbar {
min-height: 38px;
}

headerbar button.titlebutton,
headerbar button.titlebutton image {
min-width: 28px;
-gtk-icon-transform: scale(1.2);
background-size: 28px 28px;
}
*/

This is part of bigger script.
I know I am old and probably obsolete for this new world :-)
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:02:30 -0000 (UTC)
RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

Just copy the Menu "applet" (folder) from 22.2 at...

/usr/share/cinnamon/applets

Just copied from 22.2 to virtual 22.3 and that suffice. Thanks.
I am still looking in direction of other distributions. Fedora KDE look promising.
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:40:12 +0100, yossarian < wrote:

This might be the last straw for changing distributions :-(

Surely you can change GUIs without changing distributions ...
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On 12/23/25 3:02 PM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-12-23, yossarian <> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

I ran it up for <10 mins to test my themes, icons, and cursors.
No issues there. Not sure I like the menu but there might be ways of changing some of it.

My Nemo has regular expression in the text field of search. 22.2 not 3 yet.

I don't like the new Menu at all. I'll probably stay at 22.2 for the
duration.

I completely agree with you, overcrowded and not configurable. I don't
like where Cinnamon is going. My old eyes hurt, such tiny icons for the
"window control buttons", flat design, and the same color for the
front and back window menus. This might be the last straw for changing
distributions :-(

--
Linux Mint 22.2 kernel version 6.14.0-36-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8 AMD
Ryzen 7 5700G, Radeon RX9060XT, 32GB of DRAM.

I found out (from a poster at Reddit) that changing the 22.3 Menu to the
22.2 Menu is trivial.

Just copy the Menu "applet" (folder) from 22.2 at...

/usr/share/cinnamon/applets

...and save it somewhere.

Then delete the new Menu in 22.3 (same location), paste the old Menu there and then delete the Menu on 22.3, log out, and login and reinstall the Menu from the Applets app. You've got the old Menu.

I guess you could also put the old Menu at...

~/.local/share/usr/cinnamon/applets

In my test I put the old Menu in both locations, but that probably was overkill.

I tried this on a Live USB. I assume it would work the same on a full install.

It's ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets At least here. Putting it there should be the
simple way. I guess you could even rename the folder and index files in there someplace
and just call it by another name 'Menu222'
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On 2025-12-24, Alan K. <alan@invalid.com> wrote:

On 12/23/25 3:02 PM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-12-23, yossarian <> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

I ran it up for <10 mins to test my themes, icons, and cursors.
No issues there. Not sure I like the menu but there might be ways of changing some of it.

My Nemo has regular expression in the text field of search. 22.2 not 3 yet.

I don't like the new Menu at all. I'll probably stay at 22.2 for the
duration.

I completely agree with you, overcrowded and not configurable. I don't
like where Cinnamon is going. My old eyes hurt, such tiny icons for the
"window control buttons", flat design, and the same color for the
front and back window menus. This might be the last straw for changing
distributions :-(

--
Linux Mint 22.2 kernel version 6.14.0-36-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8 AMD
Ryzen 7 5700G, Radeon RX9060XT, 32GB of DRAM.

I found out (from a poster at Reddit) that changing the 22.3 Menu to the
22.2 Menu is trivial.

Just copy the Menu "applet" (folder) from 22.2 at...

/usr/share/cinnamon/applets

...and save it somewhere.

Then delete the new Menu in 22.3 (same location), paste the old Menu there >> and then delete the Menu on 22.3, log out, and login and reinstall the Menu >> from the Applets app. You've got the old Menu.

I guess you could also put the old Menu at...

~/.local/share/usr/cinnamon/applets

In my test I put the old Menu in both locations, but that probably was
overkill.

I tried this on a Live USB. I assume it would work the same on a full
install.

It's ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets At least here. Putting it there should be the
simple way. I guess you could even rename the folder and index files in there someplace
and just call it by another name 'Menu222'

Yeah, I eventually figured it out. Pretty simple.
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