MX Linux Forum

Jerry3904 wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:01 am It's a personal respin, right?

deanr72 wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:51 am Why not go with MX theming and apps?

Adrian wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:52 am Looks good. How are the MX tools theme behaving in Cinnamon? We tried to fix stuff for Plasma, added a bunch of launchers for the MX tools that make them preserve the environment needed to preserve the user theming. Hopefully that will help in Cinnamon too, and possibly other DEs but I haven't tested.

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:24 am Hello, guys. I'm a new member here. I have been using MX Linux off and on for the last two years and I think that this is a great distro. I've also been using other distros, including Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Garuda Linux, and a couple of Ubuntu flavors. Thanks for accepting me as a member.

I have been seeing the community release a few respins of MX Linux and I figured that I could create one of my own. This one is called CinnaMX, an MX respin featuring the Cinnamon desktop environment. This is a custom build of MX Linux 21.1 AHS XFCE with the Cinnamon desktop added. It features a customized desktop layout with a dock and utilizes the Mint themes and icons. The desktop background was created by myself using a non-licensed HiDPI image.

export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
export QT_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
export QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=gtk2

fehlix wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 1:08 pm

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:24 am Hello, guys. I'm a new member here. I have been using MX Linux off and on for the last two years and I think that this is a great distro. I've also been using other distros, including Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Garuda Linux, and a couple of Ubuntu flavors. Thanks for accepting me as a member.

I have been seeing the community release a few respins of MX Linux and I figured that I could create one of my own. This one is called CinnaMX, an MX respin featuring the Cinnamon desktop environment. This is a custom build of MX Linux 21.1 AHS XFCE with the Cinnamon desktop added. It features a customized desktop layout with a dock and utilizes the Mint themes and icons. The desktop background was created by myself using a non-licensed HiDPI image.

Looks good. Seems QT theming looks a bit pale, so most MX-apps do no follow theming.
Eg: like this:mxpi-cinnamx-missing-qtenv.png
I guess QT-environment variable didn't made it to get set
normally in Xfce through this guy: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/56xfce4-qtconfig
So, if those here set somehow during login:

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export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
export QT_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
export QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=gtk2
export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1

MX tools and other QT apps, would follow theme,
as shown here: MX Tools:mc-tools-cinnamx.png
MXPI:mxpi-cinnamx.png

jeffreyC wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:48 pm One thing I find odd with this is that you use several current Linux Mint apps but do not use the current Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 version of Cinnamon which is 5.2.7 but rather the older version from Debian, LMDE 5 is based on Debian Bullseye just as MX 21 is.

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:29 pm I'm running into a major issue where the desktop theme and settings are not being carried over to a new user. How do I fix this?

Adrian wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:47 pm

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:29 pm I'm running into a major issue where the desktop theme and settings are not being carried over to a new user. How do I fix this?

New user files are instantiated from /etc/skel, so when you set a theme, you need to copy the relevant stuff to /etc/skel and that will be copied to the new user.

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 12:15 am

Adrian wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:47 pm

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:29 pm I'm running into a major issue where the desktop theme and settings are not being carried over to a new user. How do I fix this?

New user files are instantiated from /etc/skel, so when you set a theme, you need to copy the relevant stuff to /etc/skel and that will be copied to the new user.

Done, but for whatever reason, Nemo does not automatically generate new entries for the new user's Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc.

AVLinux wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:08 am

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 12:15 am

Adrian wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:47 pm

New user files are instantiated from /etc/skel, so when you set a theme, you need to copy the relevant stuff to /etc/skel and that will be copied to the new user.

Done, but for whatever reason, Nemo does not automatically generate new entries for the new user's Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc.

Hi, if you are using MX-Snapshot in my experience you don't want to have the files: ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and ~/.config/user-dirs.locale in /etc/skel/.config... It seems if they are present the usual XDG User Directory set is not created, but if they are not in /etc/skel/.config these directories will be created, it seems counter-intuitive but I think most likely 'xdg-user-dirs-update' wants to run when a new User is created but if it sees that it's config files are already present then it doesn't create the User Directories.. *Note this was my experience with XFCE4 anyway, Cinnamon may be different..

@Adrian or @dolphin_oracle will know much better what the particulars of this are..

AVLinux wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:49 am Hmmm,

Are they created if you manually run this in a Terminal?

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xdg-user-dirs-update

If this command succeeds in creating them at least we'll know the underlying xdg bits and pieces are there..

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:24 am UPDATE: CinnaMX 21.1.2 released. See below for details.

Joseph DeGarmo wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:01 pm 21.1.3 update coming soon. New ISO will ditch the old "mx" user and the live session will be the standard demo session. Installer will allow you to create a new user with the desktop theme intact. Nemo home folder bug fixed for new users. A few tweaks to the desktop items as well.