After decades on Windows and many years on Windows 10 Pro, I recently started using MintDE as my daily driver.
I tried Windows 11 but came to the conclusion that it’s not my cup of tea – mainly because of all the demands Microsoft puts on its users. And because of the insecurity of Windows in the coming era of AI and quantum computing, this seemed like a good time to switch to Linux.
Windows 10 does continue to run in the background for Windows-only programs like the vendor update programs from Fujitsu (for my Esprimo D6012 desktop PC) and Western Digital (for my WD Black SN850X SSD).
I had been running Linux Mint for years in the background to learn how to use and understand it as best I could, but in reality I am still an amateur on Linux.
The tweaks I know how to pull off are based on information from the web and I often get far with that, but compared to the manipulations I know how to apply on Windows, my knowledge of Linux is insufficient.
One of the tweaks I applied is to disable the shading/dimming of the built-in screensaver, so it has the same brightness as the picture of my desktop.
For those interested: in the file “/usr/share/cinnamon-screensaver/monitorView.py” I have set the last value on Line 73
“cr.set_source_rgba(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.7)” to 0.0 as well:
“cr.set_source_rgba(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)”
Source https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=291264
My problem
Whenever I play radio in the browser or play music in the background, a frame is placed over the image of the screensaver. See attached example.
I have modified and even deleted py-files in the “/usr/share/cinnamon-screensaver” folder, but that only leads to the screensaver no longer working.
So I hope someone here can tell me how to permanently remove that frame from the screensaver / how to make sure the frame is not activated when the screensaver is active.
