{"id":33847,"date":"2022-09-03T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33847"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:46:00","slug":"fun-with-desktop-wallpapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33847","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Desktop Wallpapers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The baseball season is coming to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2023 major and minor league schedules were released last week. I have two more games on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/harrisburg\">Senators<\/a> ticket plan. Playoff tickets for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancasterbarnstormers.com\">Barnstormers<\/a> go on sale on Tuesday. April seems both like so long ago and just the week before last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday morning, the Senators put up this tweet to get people in the ballpark for the final weekend of the year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re going out with a bang! Next weekend, we have TWO fireworks shows to end the 2022 season. Get your tickets now so you don&#39;t miss any of the fun!<br><br>Friday night: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rtHn5NOD6b\">https:\/\/t.co\/rtHn5NOD6b<\/a><br>Saturday night: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zekpVJo8Fl\">https:\/\/t.co\/zekpVJo8Fl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uk5jyusDiO\">pic.twitter.com\/Uk5jyusDiO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Harrisburg Senators (@HbgSenators) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HbgSenators\/status\/1565746877114482688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize I needed a new desktop wallpaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clarity of detail in this photo is remarkable.  The grandstand, the fireworks over the island and their reflection in the Susquehanna.  Front Street.  The Capitol and St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral.  It gives me chills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though I don&#8217;t know when this photo was taken, I am probably not in my accustomed seat in the bleachers. I miss far more of the Harrisburg Senators&#8217; fireworks nights than I attend. Some years I don&#8217;t attend any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cropped it to 16:9 (specifically 4096&#215;2304), dropped it in my wallpapers folder, and <em>voila!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of my Linux Mint desktop, showing fireworks over Harrisburg's City Island\" class=\"wp-image-33846\"\/><figcaption>Screenshot of my Linux Mint desktop, showing fireworks over Harrisburg&#8217;s City Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see from my screenshot, I use Linux Mint. I styled the Cinnamon desktop to look like Ubuntu&#8217;s Unity desktop. It&#8217;s the standard Mint-Y-DarkTeal theme, the Fluent Dark Teal icon set, and the CinnXP pointer set. The menu is the Cinnamenu applet, which displays the icons in a grid and, like Unity&#8217;s HUD, can be stretched out to fill the entire screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I even edited the cinnamon.css file for Mint-Y-Dark-Teal to make the menu partly transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/screenshot-cinnamenu.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of my Linux Mint install, showing the transparent Unity-styled Cinnamenu.\" class=\"wp-image-33849\"\/><figcaption>My transparent system menu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The video below was generally my roadmap for rearranging my Mint desktop, though I didn&#8217;t download the Ubuntu themes, icons, and logos, and I did a couple of other things, like moving the menu in the panel so it&#8217;s at the top and adding the trash can to the panel.  <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.linuxmint.com\/viewtopic.php?t=285940\">This Linux Mint<\/a> forum post explained how to make the menu transparent; it recommended not going below 80%, but 70% seems fine to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Make Linux Mint Cinnamon to look like Ubuntu Unity Desktop | Linux Customization\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JKAfF3vk8pA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I should ask IT at work next week if there are OpenVPN settings for the office network.  I&#8217;ve only been trying to connect Mint to the office network since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32531\">March 2020<\/a>. The office uses SSTP for Windows and something else for Mac. I&#8217;ve tried the drivers for the former and gotten nowhere, but maybe there&#8217;s a non-hacky solution to connecting my Mint install to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mint is so pretty.  It&#8217;s so pretty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d have posted more in August, but <a href=\"https:\/\/vivaldi.com\">Vivaldi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> were not playing well together. At all. I don&#8217;t know why, and I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s triggering the behavior, but the Gutenberg editor sometimes loads in HTML view and has no way of getting out of it. Today it appears to be working fine. Tomorrow, for all I know, it may not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m blaming WordPress and not Vivaldi for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s not even Labor Day and already the snowflakes are falling. Wonder what the weather report is at Fox News.<\/p>&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanRather\/status\/1565868410214371328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baseball season is coming to an end. The 2023 major and minor league schedules were released last week. I have two more games on my Senators ticket plan. Playoff tickets for the Barnstormers go on sale on Tuesday. April seems both like so long ago and just the week before last. 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