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CTOnews.com Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment has been released and is already available in Arch Linux stable software repository, now 9to5 Linux brings an introduction to new features.

Cinnamon 5.8 brings support for XDG desktop portals, better compatibility with Flatpak applications and GNOME / libadwaita applications, and support for capturing screenshots.

In addition, the feature brings a global dark mode setting to apps that support it, with three options to choose from, including light, black, and let the app decide.

Another new feature of Cinnamon 5.8 is support for gestures on touchpads, touchscreens and tablets for window management, workspace management, tiling and media control.

Cinnamon 5.8 also introduces the new concept of "styles" to make your desktop environment look better. To this end, each style comes with three modes, namely blend, dark and light, and accent. In blended mode, most apps are light, while some desktop elements are dark for contrast.

Tooltips have been redesigned to be more consistent across the various GTK versions (GTK2, GTK3) and Cinnamon, and they now also use accent colors. Tooltips in Cinnamon are now larger, rounder, and have larger margins, and there's also some space between Mini programs so they don't crowd the panel.

Notifications are also starting to use accent colors, and whenever possible, they are now leaning more toward symbolic icons. Accent options don't appear in the theme panels of distributions other than Linux Mint, but you can change them using advanced settings.

Cinnamon's default file manager Nemo has gained support for multithreaded thumbnails as a performance improvement, Nemo now requires less CPU resources to generate thumbnails and is able to generate multiple thumbnails in parallel rather than one at a time. With this enhancement, your large folders now open faster.

Several Cinnamon Mini programs have been improved, including grouped window lists and sound Mini programs. In addition, menu Mini programs can now be resized using the mouse pointer, new buttons in Settings allow you to revert to their original size, and menus can be edited more quickly via the right-click context menu of Mini programs.

In addition to this, Cinnamon 5.8 adds keyboard shortcuts for twisting the mouse pointer between monitors in a multi-monitor setup, the ability to paste the current selection by clicking the middle mouse button (enabled by default in mouse and touchpad settings), and the ability to disable low battery warnings for connected devices in power management settings.

Cinnamon 5.8 also takes advantage of the vga_switcheroo Linux subsystem for GPU offloading on laptops with blended graphics and adds a new option in Alt+Tab settings to adjust the mouse pointer to the newly focused window after the Alt+Tab operation is complete.

Cinnamon 5.8 comes with updated CJS (CTOnews.com Note: Cinnamon Javascript interpreter), which is based on GJS 1.74 and uses SpiderMonkey (libmozjs) 102, which will bring performance improvements to Cinnamon.

As mentioned earlier, Cinnamon 5.8 is already available in Arch Linux stable repositories and is expected to be available soon in repositories of other popular distributions. Cinnamon 5.8 will be the default desktop environment for the upcoming Linux Mint 21.2 "Victoria" distribution later this month.

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