Hey all of you Linux lovers,

I want to run Debian jessie cinnamon and I want full control. So I downloaded a netinstall CD and installed xorg muffin and cinnamon-common and cinnamon.
Everything works perfecly, but there is something I don't like: my window buttons for example are squared it looks as if GTK is not installed (which is). I've searched the web but didn't find anything useful. In other words I want Debian to look as Linux Mint. I have my reasons to not using Mint . .
As I said I want full control and pretty much understand what is installed etc.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanx in advance.

#1 it sounds as if you may be missing a theme, and the look you want may be that and a few settings away.

#2 have you examined Linux Mint DE (Debian Edition)?

Hello wpeckham,

Indeed I had too few themes installed.
I solved it by using:
You then get a lot of themes in /usr/share/themes.
Now I can go to preferences -> themes -> other settings and change the controls and window borders.

And yes I have examined Linux Mint Debian Edition but then you get too much software I don't use.
Besides I have printed a hard copy of the Debian administrators guide and run Debian LXDE on an other machine so it's all Debian for me :-)

Tank you anyway

Kind regards,

Vitronix

I am very glad that solved it for you. Best of luck....