You can add new launchers 'from scratch' in either place. It is possible to have launchers directly on the desktop or on the Panel - in fact, we already saw that there are three application launchers on the default Mint panel. Now I want to move on to Application Launchers. That's a lot of configuration in just that one little part of the desktop, especially when you compare it with the Gnome 3 Panel. Ok, that's enough about the panel for now.

the result of reformatting the clock and moving the user applet is shown here. Cinnamon has just such a button on the User applet, which is shown in the panel as a silhouette, but it is located to the left of several other applets so I want to move it.įirst I have to enable Panel Edit Mode (the panel is multi-colored when edit mode is enabled), then I can just click-and-drag the User applet to the right end of the panel, and then disable Edit Mode again. I like to have a Shutdown/Reboot/Suspend button at the right end of the bottom panel (it's a habit that goes way back). (Don't ask me why they didn't use the same widget in both places) Unlike KDE, Panel Edit Mode in Cinnamon appears to only limit moving of panel objects, you can always add or remove them. There are two ways to enable Panel Edit Mode: a toggle switch on the Panel context menu (right-click) and a pushbutton in the Panel Settings utility. In order to do this you have to deal with Panel Edit Mode, which is roughly the Cinnamon equivalent of KDE's Widget Lock. One last small way to configure the Panel is to move around the applets on it.

you can get a lesson in date/time format syntax! If you have never played around with the Linux (Unix) date formatting functions you might be in for a surprise if you read through the list of formatting characters and their meanings.

In this dialog I enable the custom date format, and then set it to show only the time, in 24-hour format.

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