The Cinnamon developers are making some small improvements

Sep 9, 2014 15:51 GMT  ·  By

The Cinnamon desktop environment is actually made of numerous components, and the screensaver is only one small part. This package has just received a very interesting new feature that should arrive very soon.

The screensaver is a very important component and it actually comes with many features, but now it has one more. Users will be able to add a custom message displayed on a clear black background.

"You can use that to give the date and time the format you want, or you can remove them and get a clean screensaver which only shows the background.. or you can write whatever you want in there (for instance: "KIDS: DON'T TOUCH MY COMPUTER!!") I guess you could already do that with the away message.. ah well, more customization," said Clement Lefebvre, the leader of the Linux Mint project.

The Cinnamon desktop environment is implemented by default in Linux Mint 17 and it's available in various repositories for numerous other operating systems. The release date for this particular change hasn't been set, but it should land pretty soon.

You can download Linux Mint 17 right now from Softpedia and you can give it a spin before installing it because it's a live CD.