The Linux Mint devs keep working on new features and apps for the upcoming Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” release, due out in Christmas 2026, and they just unveiled new system monitor, terminal emulator, and archive manager tools today.
Meet Superlight, a new system monitor app for Linux Mint that features graphs for CPU, RAM, swap, GPU, network, disk I/O, temperature, and fan speed. The app shows how much of the system’s resources each application uses, and the same data is available for all running processes, with a large variety of columns you can sort and reorder.
On laptops, the Superlight system monitor app shows battery status and a history of charge level and power input/output. The Storage page breaks down disk usage and lets you browse the files and folders that take up the most space, as well as Steam games and Flatpak apps.
Another new app is Velocitty, a simple terminal emulator that comes with a tab overview and can be themed with palettes. Tabs can be reordered, moved between terminal windows, or detached into a new window. Also, tab colors can be changed to show red for superuser sessions, blue for remote sessions, and a lighter shade for running processes.
Velocitty also lets you choose which shell to run and a startup command, features shortened paths in the tab name and prompt, and offers support for customizing tabs with a name, color, and command, along with a bookmark icon that opens them all.
And there’s also Unfold, a small archive manager for viewing, creating, and extracting archives in Linux Mint. The app uses 7zip and 7zip-RAR backends, so it supports all the encryption formats they do, including password-protected archives.
On top of all that, the Linux Mint devs also announced Xenity, a fork of Zenity 3.44 (GTK3) with the same features, look, and syntax, and added a preview pane to the Nemo file manager for audio, pictures, and videos, which you can toggle with F7 or a button in the status bar.
Last but not least, the Linux Mint devs have been working on bringing hibernation back to Linux Mint, after Ubuntu removed it from the available sleep modes. A new Sleep Modes page was added in the System Administration tool to make it easier to enable and set up hibernation, along with support for Hybrid Sleep.
No news yet on the beta release of Linux Mint 27, the next major version expected later this year near the Christmas holidays, but we’re confident that it won’t be long until Linux Mint 27 will be available for public beta testing so we can take all these new features for a test drive.
I love the names of these programs. And they are all very welcome to the cinnamon DE. I was missing an integrated terminal and GNOME’s wasn’t cutting it, neither alacritty. Compared to Plasma, Cinnamon was lacking some important elements and these new programs will fill that void.
Nemo has been my favorite part of the OS. Even for other distros, it’s worth installing that as the default file manager.
My favourite part is the updater and I miss it in other distros. I don’t always want to update blindly, I hate it about Windows and Arch and NixOS don’t fare much better OOTB. Mint’s updater shows you what can be updated, the from and to versions, how much data would be transferred, and most importantly the changelog of each part!
I genuinely appreciate I can go through these, uninstall anything I don’t use anymore and learn what new things will come to my computer!
At least having this option beats "Build 16553 is downloading several gigs over your hotspot, it’s important to do this now trust us” from Windows 😒
Nemo is one of the things I liked least about mint. Dolphin is the one for me, that or just tmux and rsync gets most of what I need done. It’s nice to have options though!
What’s the difference between nemo and the default mint file manager? I like the default right now mint file manager. The only thing I dislike about current mint is the new start menu. The old start menu was much better overall and visually more intuitive.
Nemo IS the default file manager.
I’m excited, I’m installing LMDE today and looking forward to getting these tools soon.
I mostly like it, but can’t understand why Velocitty is using libadwaita! Even if it can now be coloured, the whole UI principles are inconsistent.
In the end, Cinnamon will diverge from Gnome just like Mint will diverge from Ubuntu. Let them try out what works best in the meanwhile.
