Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Multi monitor Panels Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon

I wanted to update my panel apps on my other monitors since my goto apps have changed a bit. This wasn't all that straight forward on Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon so I did what I do best, fetch a coffee and forget stuff.


After I forgot that I had already written about duplicating your panel on multiple monitors or simply change them all from one place earlier, I instead found a bunch of seemingly random numbered json files in

/home/your_username/.config/cinnamon/spices/grouped-window-list@cinnamon.org/

In there was one file for every monitor, plus 3 I didn't bother to investigate closer, because it's Tuesday after all and I needed to fetch a coffee.
Those, in my case 4 files had this section in them:


    "pinned-apps": {
        "type": "generic",
        "default": [
            "nemo.desktop",
            "firefox.desktop",
            "org.gnome.Terminal.desktop"
        ],
        "value": [
            "nemo.desktop",
            "firefox.desktop",
            "org.mozilla.firefox.desktop:flatpak",
            "org.gnome.Terminal.desktop",
            "one.ablaze.floorp.desktop:flatpak",
            "LibreWolf.desktop:flatpak",
            "Ásbrú Connection Manage.desktop",
            "signal-desktop.desktop",
            "rustdesk.desktop",
            "com.github.wwmm.easyeffects.desktop:flatpak",
            "org.kde.kdeconnect.app.desktop",
        ]

They had some other stuff as well, but I felt I should get a coffee so I just forgot about that and started some copy and pasting.
After saving I forgot to restart and simply though it didn't work.

I recommend you avoid the forgetting bit as much as possible and focus on a restart instead, it works better that way.


I used to think I wrote these things as a reminder to my self but, that clearly don't work.

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