Posted June 09, 2017
Engerek01: Hey, can you or someone else guide me how to have a taskbar like you have here for Linux Mint 18? I have been trying to have one like that, I see themes that look like that but once I install them, they still look like a regular windows XP-Vista task bar.
vicklemos: Hummm good question; it's the default one since I didn't do a thing to look like this. That's all I know ;)
muntdefems: That's not a theme, but the Unity desktop that comes (or used to come) by default with Ubuntu. AFAIK it isn't available through the official Mint package repositories, but if you really want to have a desktop like that you can either:
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Thank you for the options. I was using Mint 18.0 (which had cinnamon 3.0). I learned that it was not possible to have vertical panels in that version of cinnamon so I upgraded to Mint 18.1, which has Cinnamon 3.2.7. I was now able to do what I wanted. I attached a screenshot for the simple result. ........................
Thank you both for your time. It showed me the way how to achieve what I wanted.