Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a desktop environment that strikes a nice balance: it's lighter and more easily customizable than GNOME and more modern and feature-rich than Xfce, yet it won't overwhelm you with options the way KDE Plasma might. If you just want a convenient, traditional environment and don't need lots of bells and whistles, this could be the perfect fit!
- Red-and-black theme (Matcha Dark Aliz), neon icons (BeautyLine), and a golden cursor (Breeze Amber).
- Keyboard shortcuts:
| Shortcut | Effect |
|---|---|
| Super+↑ | Maximize/unmaximize window. |
| Super+↓ | Minimize window. |
| Super+←/→ | Tile window to the left/right (Super can also be used with numpad keys for tiling to the corners, top/bottom, and center of the screen). |
| Shift+🔆⇧/🔅⇩ | Increase/decrease window opacity (alternatively, scroll the mouse wheel on the window's title bar). |
| Super+D | Show desktop. |
| Super+W | Launch default web browser. |
| Super+T | Launch default terminal (terminator). |
| Shift+Super+T | Launch a fun alternative terminal (cool-retro-term). |
| Super+F | Launch file manager (nemo). |
| Super+E | Launch text editor (xed). |
| Super+C | Launch calculator (gnome-calculator). |
| Shift+Super+C | Launch GNOME character map to access emojis and other special characters (gnome-characters). |
| Super+S | Launch settings manager. |
| Super+K | Kill selected window (Xorg only). |
| Super+L | Lock screen. |
- Terminator is set as the default terminal emulator to take advantage of its ability to split vertically (Ctrl+Shift+E) and horizontally (Ctrl+Shift+O).
- Finally, the behavior of highlighting text by holding Shift while using numpad keys is adjusted to suit most modern users' expectations.
In addition to all the default GDL software, the following packages are installed:
- Xviewer for viewing images.
- Gpaste for clipboard management.
- Cheese for taking webcam pictures/video with various filters.
- A few casual GNOME games:
- Mines
- Nibbles
- Sudoku
- Iagno (Reversi/Othello)
- Quadrapassel (Tetris clone)
- To update your system, type
yayupin a terminal.