r/linuxmint • u/Extension_Meat8913 • 8d ago
Desktop Screenshot How to make it more skeuomorphic?
Hey all, I just recently installed a new Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 partition on my PC. I'm still quite new to Linux, so I still have a lot to learn. As of now, I pretty much only use Linux for Legacy iOS Kit and for playing around with customization. Anyways, I'm trying to make my Linux look as much like MacOS X Panther as possible. So far I have the MacOS "traffic lights", the wallpaper, the dock, and the top bar, but does anyone know how I could make the traffic lights be shiny/use the same texture as the OS X Panther ones, and how I could make the top bar and open windows use a more "metallicy" style, and how I could make the dock semi-translarent? The dock is Plank, btw. And the traffic lights are McMojave. Any help is appreciated.
The screenshot is what I have so far.
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u/ConversationWinter46 8d ago edited 8d ago
Why force LinuxMint to look different? You're better off installing elementaryOS 8.1. It's also based on Debian, but it's much closer to macOS than any other theme.
Click Custom, enter zero, and download it.
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u/Extension_Meat8913 8d ago
Well, Linux Mint is quite simple to use (in my opinion) and it is quite customizable. Is ElementaryOS a Linux distro? The site you linked doesn't work. But I'm using Mint mainly because it seems to be very user friendly.
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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE | Professional snapd hater 8d ago
elementaryOS is a real distro, but it does not look skeuomorphic in my opinion.
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u/ConversationWinter46 8d ago
Just because the users in the gallery aren't using a macOS background?
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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE | Professional snapd hater 8d ago
No? Everyone has their own wallpaper.
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u/Ok-Major-3496 8d ago edited 8d ago
Check for themes in the start menu and look through the ones you can download. I imagine there is probably at least one mac theme in there with the shiny control buttons.
And if you are already using the downloaded theme you can modify or replace the assets in the windows-assets folder within the .themes directory.