{"id":33866,"date":"2022-09-06T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33866"},"modified":"2022-09-06T21:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T02:00:38","slug":"the-hero-sesame-street-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33866","title":{"rendered":"The Hero Sesame Street Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I believe I have found my Platonic ideal of a desktop wallpaper.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Super Grover! How can one go wrong with Super Grover? The hero Sesame Street both needs and deserves! And whatever mishaps he gets into, whatever destruction head leaves in his wake, Commissioner Gordon will be right nearby to say, “Covered it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I jest, but seriously. Super Grover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tweaked a few more things with my Mint theme<\/a>, like moving the date and time to that completely open corner at top right. As I mentioned a few days ago<\/a>, making the panels left and top and the pop-out menu transparent required editing the theme’s cinnamon.css file<\/a>. While that’s what I did originally, copying cinnamon.css from the system directory to .themes\/Mint-Y-Dark-Teal\/cinnamon and editing that, I used a WordPress child theme technique to create a future-proofed solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My customized cinnamon.css file now looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@import url(\"\/usr\/share\/themes\/Mint-Y-Dark-Teal\/cinnamon\/cinnamon.css\");\n\n#Tooltip {\n    background-color: #579c8e;\n    color: #f8f0f3; }\n\n.menu {\n    background-color: rgba(48, 49, 48, 0.85); }\n\n.panel-top, .panel-left {\n    background-color: rgba(48, 49, 48, 0.25); }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
What this does is load the base cinnamon.css file for the Mint-Y-Dark-Teal theme from its directory, then my file changes a couple of things.  I didn’t like the tooltips being a kind of yellow, so I made them teal to match the Dark Teal motif.  Then I apply the opacity to the menu and panels.  If in the future the Dark Teal theme is updated by the Mint team, I’ll see the changes while my own modifications remain intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also did this for about five minutes, when I was reorganizing my wallpapers directory and needed to throw something up because I was moving and renaming the Harrisburg Senators\/fireworks wallpaper — the covers to Star Trek Vs. Transformers<\/em> stitched together into an epic wallpaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Boldly going where no robots in disguise have gone before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This made me think.  I don’t do anything to my Windows system, at home or at work.  Change out the wallpaper to something I want.  Change my cursor set from white to black.  (It’s easier for me to pick up the cursor when it’s black.)  Colors?  Icons?  Nope.  Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last time I had anything I might call a “theme” was on my Windows 7 machine at work.  I had an Ireland theme from Microsoft on my computer.  You can’t even get that anymore for Windows 10.  I’ve looked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, once upon a time?  Twenty years ago, when the Earth was young?  I had a Microsoft PLUS! subdirectory directory filled<\/em> with desktop themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, for a time, the one I used…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Remember when Windows 95 Desktop Themes were a big thing? For a while, one titled "And God Created Bart" was the one I used. I loved the desktop wallpaper. pic.twitter.com\/YaXFGScd3w<\/a><\/p>— Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) August 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>