Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 released this week, and I upgraded my two machines on Friday.
I’ve still been toying with the WMX window manager, and as I did with EndeavourOS, I integrated Rofi menus into the workflow, using the scripts created by Aditya Shakya (and available on GitHub here.
I made a custom color scheme to match the Mint-Y-Dark-Teal look, and I edited the config file to use the Mint-Y icons instead of the Papirus icons.
I also had to add this line — export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=wmx — to the script that launches WMX, because Rofi was pulling in all sorts of desktop files that it should not have been. Solving that problem was, ironically, the part that took the longest.
I also added a shutdown menu and had to make a couple of modifications to the script.
It turned out rather well. Rainy Sunday morning. Play some Nick Drake. Drink some coffee. Looks nice.
There’s something wild and fun about running Linux Mint 5 from 2008 in a virtual machine in 2025.
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. 🙂