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Hi everyone,

Many thanks for your support and for your donations.

We’ve got quite a bit of news this month.

As usual, the features and improvements presented in this blog post are a preview. They’re still being worked on and are planned for the next version of Linux Mint.

XApp

The XApp project started within Linux Mint but it has grown a lot since then. Its libraries, tools and applications are used in many desktops and distributions.

It was given a new website to make it easier to discover all its components: https://xapp-project.org

Library

Thingy, known as the “Library” in the desktop, was redesigned.

Until now, documents were grouped by application. For instance, PDF files and all the other document types supported by XReader were grouped together under “Document Viewer”.

The library now organizes documents by type instead. It no longer matters which applications are installed or which formats they support.

The sidebar comes with predefined groups for common types of documents. You can choose which groups are visible and change their order.

You can also create your own groups and decide which types of files they contain.

For instance, you could create a group for a particular project, limited to a work directory and grouping multiple document types.

The library also lets you remove individual items from the list or clear the entire list of recently opened documents at once.

Xepub

Xepub is a new EPUB reader.

It provides a reading experience similar to what you would find on a Kindle or a Kobo.

In the desktop it will appear as your “Book Reader”.

You can navigate between chapters, search the contents of the book, add bookmarks and quickly navigate between them.

When you reopen a book, Xepub remembers where you were, so you can simply continue reading.

If you select a word, a menu gives you quick access to search engines, so you can look it up in a dictionary, find it on Wikipedia or translate it.

The search engines are fully configurable in the preferences.

You can change their URLs or add anything you might find useful.

If you select a passage, it gets highlighted as an annotation. You can give it the color of your choice and add a note.

 

And of course, you can adjust the zoom level, choose your preferred fonts and customize the reading experience to your liking.

Clockenstein

It’s alive! 🙂

Say hello to your “Calendar”.

Clockenstein is a brand new calendar application and the latest addition to the XApp family.

It supports multiple calendars and works with local calendars, Google Calendar and CalDAV services such as Nextcloud.

You can create and edit events and choose which calendar they belong to.

Down in the laboratory, there’s a little more going on. 🙂

When we worked on Clockenstein, one of the things we really wanted was to always know what was going on with remote calendars. Are they connected? Are they synchronized? And if something goes wrong, why?

Clockenstein keeps track of the state of each remote calendar and reports connection and synchronization issues in the application. If a calendar can’t be reached, you can still see its events, but it becomes read-only until the connection is restored.

Clockenstein has its own daemon and its own notification agent. So it doesn’t matter whether the Calendar application is open or not.

The daemon keeps remote calendars synchronized and keeps an eye on upcoming events for calendars that have reminders enabled.

When a reminder is due, the notification agent presents it on the desktop. You can dismiss it or snooze it to be reminded again later.

Finally, Clockenstein provides interfaces for desktop environments to interact with it, and even to replace its notification agent. The Cinnamon clock applet is fully compatible with these interfaces, so just like in the past, you’ll see your calendar events directly from the panel.

 

Sponsorships:

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$1000 (3rd donation), Marci S.
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$232, Lutz D.
$200 (2nd donation), Gary B.
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Hi everyone,

Before we begin, let me thank all our donors and sponsors. Many thanks to all of you for the help you’re providing us!

We’ve got new HWE ISOs this month and some really exciting news. As always, please be aware that the features and improvements mentioned in this blog are a work in progress and that this is a preview of what’s to come and what’s planned for the next release of Linux Mint.

HWE ISOs

A new set of HWE ISOs is available for Linux Mint 22.3 with kernel 7.0.

For more information on HWE, or to download these ISOs: https://www.linuxmint.com/hwe.php

Environment Variables

The System Administration tool received a new page dedicated to environment variables.

Variables defined on this page are set system-wide for all user sessions (graphical and/or console).

Kernel Management

Kernel management was removed from the Update Manager and re-implemented within the System Administration tool.

This new implementation supports both Linux Mint and LMDE. It focuses on kernel series rather than individual kernels.

Kernel management is very simple: You decide which series you want to track and how many older kernels you want to keep. You then receive kernel updates for your tracked series in the Update Manager, and older kernels are automatically removed by the system on a weekly basis.

If you need to free up space immediately, cleanups can be triggered manually.

You can also click on the History button to see which kernels were removed and when.

If you install a kernel from an unknown or custom series, the tool will list its series and give you the ability to mark it as tracked.

In the screenshot below, we installed an OEM and a Real Time kernel.

When you track a known series, the tool installs its meta-packages and ensures you receive updates for that series. In the case of a custom series, the tool doesn’t know how to do that and warns you that it is your responsibility to do so.

If a series is not tracked, all of its installed kernels get automatically removed during the next cleanup. Unless… you protect them.

You can click the “View all kernels” button to install, remove, or protect individual kernels.

  

When a kernel is marked as “protected”, it becomes immune to kernel cleanups and never gets deleted.

Keyboard Layouts and IM

Cinnamon received support for Fcitx5 with full Wayland/X11 parity.

With Fcitx5 selected in the Input Methods settings, Cinnamon no longer launches ibus-daemon, but uses a different internal handler instead. It lets you define a single layout and delegates everything else to Fcitx.

Cinnamon also features a new keyboard layout viewer.

This viewer replaces the gnome-kbd viewer, which was discontinued.

Other improvements

Interacting with the panel when working with fullscreen windows feels much more natural than before. You can click other components of the panel, close the menu, open other applets, etc.

Sponsorships:

A total of $14,761 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 419 donors:

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$464 (2nd donation), Michael S.
$300 (35th donation), John Mc aka “Land Research Project“
$300 (9th donation), André Inácio
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$250 (5th donation), Benjamin M.
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$100 (8th donation), William C.
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Hi everyone,

Many thanks to all the people who donate and sponsor our project!

Note: The improvements and features mentioned in this blog post are planned for the next version of Linux Mint, which is scheduled for Christmas this year.

Wayland

We worked really hard on Wayland and we got to the point where it feels solid and the experience is almost on par with X11. Wayland support will no longer be considered “experimental”. In the next version of Cinnamon, both X11 and Wayland will be fully supported.

Here are some of the improvements we implemented:

• Proper mapping (sizing and positioning) for new windows, applet popup menus and context menus
• Proper focus stealing prevention
• Many Wayland crash scenarios fixed in Cinnamon, muffin, cinnamon-session and Xwayland
• Improved support for multiple monitors and KVM switches
• Hardware acceleration throughout the compositor, desktop session, and both Wayland and Xwayland clients (via wl_drm, zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1 feedback v4,  hardware-accelerated GBM over EGL (for NVIDIA))
• Full HiDPI support (crisp icons, fixes in mouse cursors, and bugs specific to Chromium apps such as Slack or VSCode)
• Window Progress (this is what allows, for instance, to see nemo copy progress in the panel app button)
• Root applications (run via pkexec) run as Wayland clients (not Xwayland)
• Session fixes

Cinnamon

Cinnamon also received the following improvements:

• A cinnamon-list-windows command was introduced to make it easy to list all open windows and to quickly see their position, size, HiDPI/app/backend info.
• Muffin now rounds coordinates and dimensions for all Clutter actors. This guarantee crisp and precise rendering and fixes blur issues when applets or desktop components forget to do so themselves.
• Support for systemd’s graphical-session. This boosts Cinnamon’s compatibility with many upstream projects.

System

SSH keyring support was improved system-wide.

Fixes were implemented in the LightDM configuration. 

Support for fingerprint authentication was improved in Slick Greeter. Placing your finger on the fingerprint reader is enough to log in. You no longer need to press Enter afterwards.

Security Updates

Another severe security flaw was found this month. This time, it affects mintupdate: CVE-2026-59159.

I’d like to thank Robbie Loewen-Ross for finding this vulnerability and working with us on it.

Security updates were sent 3 weeks ago, for all affected versions, in both supported and EOL (End-of-Life) Linux Mint and LMDE releases.

Make sure you update your system.

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