I'm still playing around with Mint 19.3 and there's a new release due next month with some exciting features like a simple file transfer system that was tested a long time ago and is being revived.
I think I have ironed out most of the wrinkles in my move from KDE based Linux back to Xfce using Mint although I'm sure I have more stuff to work out, but the basic aims were:
1 - Move from KDE Plasma back to something that 'feels like' it has less overhead (even it doesn't really).
2 - Retain some of the playful stuff I like such as transparency in some apps and the ability to use Kvantum styling on as many of my qt apps (from KDE) as possible.
3 - Find a theme I like for the GTK stuff. Preferable not one of the new modern 'flat' themes, and preferably a 'dark' theme to be easier on the eyes with the 55 inch monitor.
4 - Said theme must have big enough borders to grab easily with the mouse, because I am constantly resizing programs to make best use of the large screen.
While I was playing with the wider borders thing, which looked decidedly ugly, I discovered that drop shadows achieved the same thing. The area of the shadow provides the exra pixel area to grab with the mouse cursor. I might look weird and playful to have coloured drop shadows - bu tit tells me at a glance which windows are focused at the same time.
6 - I would 'like to have' have the compositing features I had in KDE/Plasma.
For some reason kwin killed my Mint Xfce. So I reinstalled Mint 19.3 Xfrce and played with Compiz, and after a few fails, I modified a Metacity theme to give me decent min/max and close buttons on the Title Bar.
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