Linux Mint Post-Install Desktop Tweaks » cyberfella ltd, since 2012.

Before you do anything after installing mint, update the system:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get full-upgrade

Tweaks

Turn on firewall

Desktop, Customise, Auto-arrange, Off

Desktop, Show desktop icons on all monitors (Computer, Home, Trash)

File manager, Edit, Preferences, View New Folders in List View

Behaviours, Click twice to Rename, Double-Click to Open

View Executable Files by default (don’t prompt)

List Columns, Add Created Date etc

Toolbar, Add Home button, New Folder button and Refresh button

Time and Date Settings, Left-click Time, Left-click Settings, add/remove seconds etc

Context Menus, Add “Make Link”, remove unused items.

Add Nemo Context Menu Refresh Action

sudo apt-get install xdotool
sudo vi /usr/share/nemo/actions/refresh-nemo-action

[Nemo Action] 

Name=Refresh 

Name[tr]=Tazele 

Comment=Nemo 

Refresh Exec=xdotool key ctrl+r 

Selection=None 

Extensions=any; 

Icon-Name=view-refresh 

Dependencies=xdotool;

Window, Behaviour, Location of newly opened windows, Centre

Disks, Automount at Startup

Add Media File info to File Properties

Enable TimeShift snapshots.

Font hinting set to Full

Scale up the Panel height to increase icon size on Start bar. Move Start bar to top of screen.

Cinnamon dynamic wallpaper extension and tiling window manager extension

Use nala instead of apt-get (sudo apt-get install nala ;; sudo nala install <package>)

install ubuntu-restricted-extras

In software manager install redshift and redshit-manager to configure night light

sudo fstrim -v / #If supported, run the next two commands to optimise SSD speed and lifespan

sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer

sudo systemctl start fstrim.timer

Enable hot corners, assign actions to moving cursor to screen corners

Enable gestures for touchpad

Enable hardware GPU rendering for web browsers:

Firefox Tweaks:

about:config

layers.acceleration.force-enabled

gfx.webrender.all

Enable GPU Rendering in Brave Browser

1. Check if hardware acceleration is already enabled:

Open the Brave browser.
Click the three-line menu (≡) at the top right and select Settings.
Scroll down and select System from the left-hand menu (or type “System” in the search bar).
Find the “Use hardware acceleration when available” setting.
Toggle it on if it’s disabled.
Restart Brave for the changes to take effect.

2. Force GPU acceleration via Brave’s flags (optional):

Brave also provides access to experimental features via “flags” similar to Chrome. Here’s how you can force GPU rendering:

In the address bar, type brave://flags and press Enter.
In the search bar, type “hardware-accelerated”.
Find the option called “Override software rendering list” and enable it.
Restart Brave for changes to apply.

3. Check GPU acceleration status:

To verify if GPU rendering is active, go to brave://gpu in the address bar.
This page will show detailed information about GPU acceleration. Look for the status of different graphical features (like “Video Decode”, “Rasterization”, and “WebGL”) to confirm that they are hardware-accelerated.

If your GPU supports it and hardware acceleration is correctly enabled, Brave will use the GPU for rendering, similar to how Firefox does it with its own hardware acceleration settings.

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