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Linux Mint Essentials
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Linux Mint Essentials

by Jay LaCroix
May 2014
Beginner
324 pages
7h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Customizing MATE

Customizing your MATE experience is easy and rewarding. Using the components that the MATE edition includes, you can customize pretty much every portion of the desktop. Listed in this section are some of the highlights.

Desktop background

Just like the Cinnamon edition, the MATE edition contains a slew of backgrounds you can use for your desktop. If you don't prefer any of those that are installed by default, you can click on Add… and browse to find a picture of your own to use. The following screenshot shows how to select a desktop background:

Desktop background

Screensaver

Also located in the Control Center is a section where you can change the screensaver ...

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