Super cool add-ons on Linux

Created on: 17 May 23 22:15 +0700 by Son Nguyen Hoang in English

A List of super-cool package you should installed on your Linux Mint

Linux

I installed Linux Mint the first time and now trying to get used to the system. The good new is there are plenty of funny things we can tweaks! For example, I did turn my Mint OS’s theme into something very similar to Mac OS Big Sur! The changes were amazing and I totally love it!

Here are some funny things you should try on your Linux (Mint). The list will be updated in the future.

  1. Modify startup program In Mint you can easily set which program to be run at the startup. Find “Startup Application” and run the software, it provides fairly good interface for you to tweak. This is needed to run the below package at startup

  2. Plank

A simple “plank” for your desktop (which is of course, inspired from MacOS)

Run sudo apt get plank and you are good to go. You can manually set plank to be run at startup

  1. OneDriver

Install guide at https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver

The software help you to access to your OneDriver. It follow the principle: only download the file when needed. Very handy. You can also set the UI to run at the startup (Like I do)

Install guide for Debian

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jstaf/Debian_Unstable/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:jstaf.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:jstaf/Debian_Unstable/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_jstaf.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install onedriver
  1. OpenDesktop to modify default icon at: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1403328/
  • Find the themes/icons you want
  • Download them
  • Put them into ~/.icons and ~/.themes folders.
  • Run Themes (native application) then select the icon/theme set.
  • Enjoy

Check the website for more information

  1. Sysnapse

The quickway to search files/ run the program. This one is f*cking awesome.

sudo apt-get install synapse

  1. Create soft-link between config files in Linux
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
  1. Unable to mount disk (HDD) - Not athorized
sudo gnome-disks

Then go to “Disks” -> Mounting normally

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