How To Install Themes On Cinnamon Desktop Environment

Linux Mint is one of the most famous Linux distros in the world that use Ubuntu and Debian base system. Linux Mint uses several desktop environments, including Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce and KDE. Cinnamon is the default desktop environment on Linux Mint. Cinnamon created and developed by the team of Linux Mint developers. and now, Cinnamon is widely available in many other Linux distros, including Ubuntu and Debian.

Cinnamon has many interesting themes that you can choose to beautify the look of Cinnamon desktop environment. You can add Cinnamon themes via theme settings or manually. If you choose to install themes manually, you can download the Cinnamon theme on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com, opendesktop.org or other website providing theme Cinnamon.

How To Install Themes On Cinnamon Desktop Environment

Installing Cinnamon themes is not a difficult thing, you can certainly do it easily. just a few steps, you can install Cinnamon theme on Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian or other Linux distro.

1. First Way

Installing a desktop Cinnamon themes using Themes Settings is the easiest way. you can add Cinnamon theme at will.

• First open Cinnamon Themes Settings, click Menu > Preferences > Themes
• In the themes settings, select the add /remove menu tab
• A message will appear to update cache, click "yes"
• In the add /remove menu tab select the theme you want to install, click on the install button to start the theme installation process
• Wait until the process of installing the theme is complete, after that, you can use themes through the Themes > Desktop

2. Second Way

You might prefer to install the Cinnamon theme manually. It's not difficult, just a few steps, you can install the Cinnamon theme manually. Especially for Cinnamon themes that you do not get on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com website.

• First download the Cinnamon theme on the website that provides it, for example: cinnamon-spices, opendesktop.org or others
• Usually the downloaded file is a compressed file, extract the file, copy & paste the extracted folder in the /.themes directory (use Ctrl + H key to display hidden files) or copy & paste themes in /usr/share/themes (as root )
• You have successfully installed Cinnamon theme, now, open themes settings to apply Cinnamon theme you just added.

Change The Cinnamon Themes

After adding some Cinnamon themes, you can change theme of Cinnamon through theme setting.

• First open Cinnamon theme settings, click Menu > Preferences > Themes
• In the Cinnamon settings window Choose a desktop theme
• Will see a list of Cinnamon themes that have been installed
• choose one of the themes you like

That's How To Install Themes On Cinnamon Desktop Environment, Linux Mint or other Linux distro on Cinnamon desktop environment.