Clean Show Desktop

by FilipeTorresBR

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1 week ago 2025-09-28, 11:04

Last commit: [06db5727] Improve zh_TW Traditional Chinese translation (#7831)

An Applet to show the Desktop just like in Windows 10, but completely customizable

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23 Comments

ii0-0ii-3 weeks ago

LM22.2 [ Hot Corners ] already included; does the same thing

Tony, Martin Berbel-1 year ago

Sometimes, when not hovering with the mouse onit, windows remain transparent. By hovering with the mouse over it again, the windows reapear.

Caylin-1 year ago

Currently setting peeking opacity to 0 makes this applet show a black screen when peeking instead of showing the desktop.

Tony, Martin Berbel-1 year ago

Hi, I like it to, but I get a warning (triangle with exclamation mark) when installing it on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish (x86-64) with Cinnamon 5.2.7, that it could crash the Cinnamon desktop. Cheers !

Evgeniy Goncharov-2 years ago

Hi! Thank you for this applet! Could you add a killer-feature to minimize windows on primary monitor only? This is a very useful feature that allows you to use this applet with multiple monitors

Anisuzzaman Shayak-3 years ago

Hi, thank you for making this useful applet. I've been using it for 1 year. Worked great for me. But after the cinnamon 5.4 update, peek desktop at hover is not working as expected. When I hover over the applet, it makes the desktop transparent, I can't see the desktop icons or desklets or the wallpaper. I assume it is happening because of the muffin window manager update. I'm on Linux mint 21 with cinnamon 5.4.12. Hope you can fix this soon.

Filipe Torres-3 years ago

Hi! Thank you for your report. I can't reproduce the problem in any of my machines. It seems to be a problem specific on yours. Try to reinstall the applet and see if this can solve.

reprogrammable-3 years ago

I installed an update today and now this applet doesn't work any more. I can uninstall it but can't get it to function after reinstalling. There is nothing visible on the panel. Really disappointed, as it was very handy. Hope you can fix it.

Filipe Torres-3 years ago

Hi, what is going on exactly?

ovinsi-3 years ago

how to move right?

Filipe Torres-3 years ago

Click with the right mouse button in panel -> enter edition panel mode -> drag the applet to the end -> Click with the right mouse button in panel again -> exit edition panel mode

SameytheHedgehog-3 years ago

Fits really well with my theme that makes Mint look an awful lot like Win10. :D

Mario P. Cardenas-4 years ago

This is so cool. I've just been learning html, css and javascript for a few months and this is kind of outside my skillset for now. How did you learn to make applets?

Filipe Torres-3 years ago

Hi, I learned by myself just looking to another applets source codes available on github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets