Does Linux Mint 22.2 support Chicago95?

[holygamer]

Does it support all of the following:

• GTK+ 3.22 or 3.24
• Xfce 4.12, 4.14, 4.16
• gtk2-engines-pixbuf (Recommended for GTK2 applications)
• The xfce4-panel-profiles package
• A Window compositor

[JoshuaSchaferhund94]

I am using Linux Mint XFCE 22.2 and I can confirm it works perfectly (though the whisker button has a weird extra border that i cant seem to get rid of)

[JoshuaSchaferhund94]

I also can't seem to disable the faded icons for minimized windows either, unfortunately

[holygamer]

Thanks but can you check if your Linux version is actually using those versions that I mentioned. It's probably got that glitch because you're using XFCE 4.18 instead of 4.16 which is the highest version supported.

Why do all the disktop shorcuts look like they're selected?

How does a file manager window such as Total Commander look?

[holygamer]

I'm just wondering why Linux distro and which version I should choose that will give the intended Chicago95 look without glitches as more recent OS versions don't support the Chicago95 requirements?

[repogazer2000]

I am using Linux Mint XFCE 22.2 and I can confirm it works perfectly (though the whisker button has a weird extra border that i cant seem to get rid of)

Incredible result, what steps did you take to achieve that look? I'm also on the same version at the same resolution, but clearly I must've missed some things as the result does not look the same, though I'm also still learning.

I can't remember if this was the case on Windows, but after relogging font rendering for me seemed to bug out and become rather mushy when any of the Microsoft Sans Serif text is bold, regardless of anti-aliasing or DPI settings (which I left at default). The highlight space around desktop icon text is also way too small with random bold characters, nothing in the files either that seems to control as far as I could see (and it has nothing to do with custom font size on desktop icons). And I haven't been able to remove the panel item frames despite my modification of the gtk.css file per this suggestion.

As far as other steps in the installation instructions, I remember observing the following.

• QT5 theme configration with qt5ct ] (advanced) is not something that I can follow because files such as 56xfce4-qtconfig do not exist, that and lacking permissions to modify /usr/share/qt5ct/colors
• Icon label backdrop colour or text colours is not applicable
• Steps for installing the Helvetica font show me nothing in the end, as there is no such file or directory for both sudo commands
• Setting the new sound theme is not possible using xconf-query as /Net/SoundThemeName does not exist on channel xsettings, unless creating that somehow makes it work

Startup sounds I have not tested as of yet, nor have I tested SDDM as I had become aware of the LightDM instructions no longer being something I can follow due to missing packages.

I will report back as I continue going through more modifications.

EDIT: The SDDM theme works great, but required going through quite a few dependencies that I had to search for. I also discovered the limitation of LightDM being the default DM of Mint Xfce, and the lock screen being dependent on it. I have also fixed the problem of the font rendering by virtue of Helvetica now showing up when I search for it, and it renders great.

[TouhouEngie]

I am using Linux Mint XFCE 22.2 and I can confirm it works perfectly (though the whisker button has a weird extra border that i cant seem to get rid of)

Incredible result, what steps did you take to achieve that look? I'm also on the same version at the same resolution, but clearly I must've missed some things as the result does not look the same, though I'm also still learning.

I can't remember if this was the case on Windows, but after relogging font rendering for me seemed to bug out and become rather mushy when any of the Microsoft Sans Serif text is bold, regardless of anti-aliasing or DPI settings (which I left at default). The highlight space around desktop icon text is also way too small with random bold characters, nothing in the files either that seems to control as far as I could see (and it has nothing to do with custom font size on desktop icons). And I haven't been able to remove the panel item frames despite my modification of the gtk.css file per this suggestion.

As far as other steps in the installation instructions, I remember observing the following.

* QT5 theme configration with qt5ct ] (advanced) is not something that I can follow because files such as 56xfce4-qtconfig do not exist, that and lacking permissions to modify /usr/share/qt5ct/colors

* Icon label backdrop colour or text colours is not applicable

* Steps for installing the Helvetica font show me nothing in the end, as there is no such file or directory for both sudo commands

* Setting the new sound theme is not possible using xconf-query as /Net/SoundThemeName does not exist on channel xsettings, unless creating that somehow makes it work

Startup sounds I have not tested as of yet, nor have I tested SDDM as I had become aware of the LightDM instructions no longer being something I can follow due to missing packages.

I will report back as I continue going through more modifications.

EDIT: The SDDM theme works great, but required going through quite a few dependencies that I had to search for. I also discovered the limitation of LightDM being the default DM of Mint Xfce, and the lock screen being dependent on it. I have also fixed the problem of the font rendering by virtue of Helvetica now showing up when I search for it, and it renders great.

can you explain how you got helvetica to show up in your font list? i have tried to install this font lately to no avail

[chi-lambda]

I have missing icons (notably the command (e.g. shutdown, suspend) buttons in the Whisker Menu) when installing on Linux Mint 22.2, but it looks fine on my machines where I installed it in 22.1 and then upgraded to 22.2, although some icons (I think the network panel and Bluetooth icons?) got reset.