Many schools can’t afford Windows computers can easily resort to the beautiful open-source Linux distro without the fear of losing productivity, beauty, or efficiency. To install, extract the archive file to the hidden ‘.themes’ folder in your Home folder (if you don’t have one, create one).įinally, to apply the theme, Open System Settings > Appearance > Themes and select the theme in both the window-borders and controls section.Because Ubuntu and many of the applications it runs are free, millions of people wherever they are in the world are able to use affordable computers that run not just an efficient OS, but also properly-developed applications. You can download the theme directly from GNOME-Look:ĭownload MacOS-Mint-Cinnamon-Edition Theme Still the theme is a sterling attempt and well worth trying out - even if only as a novelty. The downside is that, for now, Paul’s excellent Mac os theme only affects the look and feel of applications and app window borders. A Cinnamon desktop theme is not (currently) available (and the Cinnamon Spices website turns up nothing Apple-related). Undeterred, Paul has re-engineered his Mac os theme for Linux Mint, building a new Metacity theme that blends with the rest of the UI while still allowing apps using Client Side Decoration (CSD) to look the part too. “This has proven to be a much more difficult thing to do, because of the way Linux Mint uses Muffin as a window-manager, which has some drawbacks (like: Server-Side-Decoration, so no transparency in Nemo, ) and the ‘multitude’ of toolbars that take half the real-estate of the window… Reducing the size of them was my first priority.” Not that the task was entirely smooth sailing, as Paul points out:

Having recently raved about his creepily accurate macOS Mojave theme I was thrilled to learn that Paul has made a custom version of his macOS mojave theme available for the Cinnamon desktop.

Paul creates and maintains a bunch of well designed and well made themes for various GTK+ based desktop environments, including GNOME Shell, Budgie and, more relevant to those of you reading this post, Cinnamon. The regular version supports transparency, the Mint version does not

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