{"id":44156,"date":"2023-07-18T05:57:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=44156"},"modified":"2023-07-18T05:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T05:57:45","slug":"linux-mint-21-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/linux-mint-21-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 21.2 Released! Touchpad Gestures, Light &#038; Dark Mode Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mint-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-36685\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mint-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mint-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mint-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mint-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mint-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mint-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux Mint announced the new 21.2 point release this Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><b>The new release introduced Cinnamon Desktop 5.8 with built-in gestures support for touchpad and touchscreen.<\/b> With the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JoseExposito\/touchegg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">touchegg<\/a> service running in the background, System Settings now provides a &#8216;Gestures&#8217; option, allowing to configure actions for 3-finger\/4-finger swipe, 2-finger\/3-finger\/4-finger pinch, and activation thresholds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44082\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture-600x340.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture-600x340.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture-300x170.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture-768x435.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture-1536x869.webp 1536w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture-1320x747.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cinnamon-gesture.webp 1590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another big change is the &#8220;<b>Themes<\/b>&#8221; setting page. It now features &#8220;Style&#8221; option for changing theme, and each style has <b>light<\/b>, <b>dark<\/b>, and <b>mixed<\/b>, as well as accent colors to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/rel_victoria_cinnamon_whatsnew.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linux Mint 21.2<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MATE Desktop 1.26.<\/li>\n<li>XFCE Desktop 4.18.<\/li>\n<li>Kernel 5.15.<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu 22.04 package base.<\/li>\n<li>Enable touchpad tap-to-click on login screen.<\/li>\n<li>On screen keyboard now is configurable.<\/li>\n<li>Pix 3.0 with AVIF\/HEIF and JXL formats support.<\/li>\n<li>XDG Desktop Portal for better non-native apps (such as Flatpak) support.<\/li>\n<li>Start Menu now is resizable.<\/li>\n<li>Tooltips, icons, and other minor changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Get Linux Mint 21.2<\/h3>\n<p>For the <code>.iso<\/code> disco image, go to its website via the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/linuxmint.com\/download.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Linux Mint<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Linux Mint 21.1 user can upgrade to the new release by launching &#8220;Update Manager&#8221; (upgrade the app itself if prompted), then use menu &#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/upgrade2mint212.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/upgrade2mint212-300x131.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/upgrade2mint212-300x131.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/upgrade2mint212-600x263.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/upgrade2mint212.webp 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu (Cinnamon) user who want to try out the new Cinnamon Desktop 5.8, I&#8217;ve created an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/cinnamon\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a> for choice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Mint announced the new 21.2 point release this Sunday! The new release introduced Cinnamon Desktop 5.8 with built-in gestures support for touchpad and touchscreen. With the touchegg service running in the background, System Settings now provides a &#8216;Gestures&#8217; option, allowing to configure actions for 3-finger\/4-finger swipe, 2-finger\/3-finger\/4-finger pinch, and activation thresholds. Another big change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1476],"class_list":["post-44156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-linux-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}