Questions tagged [cinnamon]
New desktop environment by the developers of Linux Mint.
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How do I install Cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu 17.10?
I've used three terminal commands to install Cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu. It ran the first time I logged in, but froze. I logged out, but there is no option to go back to Cinnamon. I tried ...
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Cinnamon dark theme has pale-on-paler text on buttons
I'm trying to use a dark theme in Cinnamon but the buttons don't look right because the background is too similar to the the text colour.
I would like to make the background dark and the text white.
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How do I get rid of the "opened application" indicator on Plank? (Ubuntu 18.04, Cinnamon)
There is a blue light icon below any open programs on Plank. I have disabled the function to have icons on plank that are not pinned to it, but the blue light persists on icons that are pinned. I ...
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How can I restore more windows than just my browser using dconf-editor?
System:
Ubuntu 18.04
Cinnamon 3.8.3
dconf-editor 3.28.0
I have been trying to save my workspace sessions so that when I start up my system, all the programs I want to open are there and ready to go, ...
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Different Wallpapers for Ubuntu Unity and Cinnamon
I recently installed Cinnamon through Ubuntu terminal and liked it so much.
The problem that I face, however, is that I want different wallpapers for Cinnamon and Ubuntu Unity. I also have KDE ...
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cinnamon-core, Nemo does not show the sharing tab. There is no nemo-share
I have installed Linux Mint 18.04, and Ubuntu 18.04 + Cinnamon. On Linux Mint, Nemo shows a much better context menu and the file property dialogue box has "Share". On Ubuntu + Cinnamon, Nemo shows ...
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what is cinnamon --replace process?
I use cinnamon 3.6.7 <>
cinnamon --replace became cinnamon --replace --replace when I restarted it:
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Short key for moving windows between monitors? [duplicate]
Is there a short key to move a window between the different connected monitors?
In my setup I have 2 monitors in use. Usually I am on Unity, but I also use Cinnamon. Is there a way to move a window ...
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Edit context menu icon in Cinnamon
I haveCinnamon on my Ubuntu with custom theme. Now I would like to customise context menu shown upon right click on desktop. In my case there is very large icon for Open as root action, which I'd like ...
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Computer won't connect to network after coming out of suspend
So I am new to Linux and I am not very good at CLI and much prefer gui instead. But I have 3 issues that might all be stemming from my suspend mode. When I close the lid of my laptop it goes into ...
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Unable to log in to Cinnamon session 18.04 [duplicate]
I used to use Cinnamon as my desktop environment on 17.10. After I updated to 18.10 I reinstalled Cinnamon using sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment but can no longer log in to that ...
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How to mirror laptop and external monitor with Cinnamon desktop?
arandr allows to arrange monitors relative to each other, but how to mirror the screen content (example use case: presentation with beamer where you want to demonstrate the use of a website).
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Nemo doesn't preview all thumbnails, and it's not size related
Basically the same question as here: Why doesn't Nemo preview thumbnails?
However, I've tried all of those solutions and still have this issue.
Here's what I'm seeing:
As you can see, i'm ...
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Touchpad works in gnome environment, but not in cinnamon?
Installed Cinnamon because gnome was too laggy and taking up too much resources. Synaptics touchpad is not working now, but was working in gnome.
Already tried reinstalling synaptics drivers with: ...
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How do I stop USB media from autoplaying pictures and videos in Ubuntu 16.04 running Cinnamon?
Hopefully someone could point me in the right direction to find the root cause of this issue or even provide me the answer directly.
Background:
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with Cinnamon as my desktop ...
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Reasonable size task and title bar fonts on different high dpi displays
My laptop has a 15" Ultra HD screen, so to make things readable I used "Scale for menu and title bars" from Unity, this setting also affects cinnamon, the desktop manager I actually use. To clarify, I ...
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Firefox goes full screen when dragged from secondary to primary monitor
I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 using the cinnamon desktop
I have 2 monitors and in my second (secondary) monitor, when Firefox is maximized and I grab it from the bar on top and try to drag it onto my primary ...
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Cinnamon session crashing login from greeter
I wanted to change my desktop environment (DE) to cinnamon because it was way faster on my test computer.
I ran the command:
apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment
Rebooted.
Changed the DE ...
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My ubuntu 17.10 GNOME desktop changed to Cinnamon
I turned my pc on and logged in via the login screen I always see and now I booted up into a Cinnamon desktop.
I never installed a different desktop and no one has used my pc.
It also mentioned ...
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Inkscape 0.92.2 (snap) has not numpy.linalg modules installed
when I try to export a shape as dxf I get the following message:
"Failed to import the numpy or numpy.linalg modules. These modules are required by this extension. Please install them and try again."
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how can i set the sound to louder than 100% on cinnamon
I have installed cinnamon enviroment on ubuntu 16.04 and set the volume on louder than 100% but when i use the sound buttons on my key board it returns to 100%
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Allow fullscreen (F11'd) program to NOT have focus
I love using F11 for my terminals but sometimes I have another app on the same monitor. Fullscreen apps always fight for focus so if I tab to a third app on my other monitor, the fullscreen one will ...
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Missing System Tray Icons in the Cinnamon Desktop Environment
I am currently using the Cinnamon Desktop Environment in which I have applications which uses the System Tray but when these applications are opened, the icons are not shown in the system tray but ...
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How to change to the Ubuntu desktop using the GUI (not Command Line)? [duplicate]
Is there a SUPER SIMPLE way to get the Ubuntu desktop to change to a different desktop using the GUI? Maybe I'm missing something and just don't trust the command line?
Thanks!
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cinnamon change name of workspaces by bash
I want to update the names of workspace by bash.
When I run:
$ gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences workspace-names
['0 - Main', 'Project name', 'second project', 'other']
So I try to ...
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unable to reconnect to login screen after reboot/logout using vnc
Since upgrading to 17.10 I can no longer reconnect to the login screen in remote sessions using VNC. The only way I can reconnect to a remote session is if I am already logged in, then VNC is able to ...
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Cinnamon desktop background changes to my old Unity background intermittently
Sometimes when I open a folder on my desktop, my background changes to the background I had when I used Unity, and I can no longer use anything on my desktop. Has anyone gotten this bug before? How ...
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Upgrade to 17.10 cinnamon windowing not working
Just upgraded 17.04 => 17.10. Booted into Unity, then installed cinnamon via the command line. Logged out, then back into the cinnamon DE. Appeared to work fine, but any interaction that creates a ...
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Cinnamon DE theme settings not working, 16.04 LTS Cinnamon DE 3.4
I switched to cinnamon recently, but themes section is not showing up in settings, it opens and crashes immediately. How do we fix this? Thank you.
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Start every window on all workspaces, with a few exclusions
I know about Always on visible workspace But I want all windows to have this as the default when opening, with a few exceptions.
The workflow I'm looking for is pretty much the inverse of how it ...
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How to gracefully change keyboard layout from command line (setxkbmap breaks all shortcuts)
Is there a way to change the currently active keyboard layout in Cinnamon, from command line?
The setxkbmap solution that most of the guides suggest, doesn't quite work as it is supposed to:
If it ...
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start a guest session in Ubuntu 17.10 / cinnamon
In Ubuntu 16.10 with Unity I could launch a guest session as follows:
Now I use Ubuntu 17.10 with cinnamon. The correspoding menu looks like
and does not allow me to start a guest session.
Also I ...
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How to group multiple instances of each application in taskbar/panel?
I am looking for a solution that can provide me "Windows"-like capability to group multiple instances of each application in ubuntu.
I have looked at the solution to this question at some other ...
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Can I install the Cinnamon DE on Ubuntu GNOME? If so, how? [duplicate]
First, I would like to know if I can install the Cinnamon DE without messing up Ubuntu GNOME.
Second, I would like to know how to install the Cinnamon DE.
Lastly, I would like to know how I would ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 with Cinnamon and Nvidia Quadro M1200
I am having a hard time getting Cinnamon to work on my new Dell Precision 7520. I installed nvidia-384 package (the latest available). Cinnamon starts fine but eventually it crashes and I get the ...
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Some basic simple lightweight text editor for graphical desktop environment
I'm looking for a very fast simple basic text editor for graphical desktop environment.
I'm user of Ubuntu (mate) and Mint (cinnamon)
Using Windows 7, the notepad.exe is very lightweight and fast, ...
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Compiz Water Effect - Does it work in Cinnamon?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with the Cinnamon desktop enviroment, and I am trying to get the Compiz Water Effect to work.
Previously, I didn't have that effect in Compiz, but thanks to the Synaptic ...
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How to do clean install with only Cinnamon desktop
My 16.10 system running Gnome desktop crashed during the 17.04 upgrade, so I'm going to do a fresh install, which I'd like to switch to Cinnamon. On another Gnome system, Cinnamon installed fine, but ...
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Hide downloaded HTML page's folder [duplicate]
I'm switching from Windows to Ubuntu and I'm quite a beginner in GNU/Linux in general.
I download many web pages to consult them offline and I want to hide folders related to them.(the folder ...
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Cinnamon install broken in 17.04. Black background, icons not changing
I did a clean install of Ubuntu Gnome today. I installed cinnamon and switched to it (I left gnome installed). I was customizing the theme, and all settings were taking effect immediately, but I can'...
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Cinnamon dual monitor icons
I'm using Ubuntu 17.04 with Cinnamon 3.4.3 on a dual monitor.
I got a issue with icons on desktop. My external monitor is set has the primary monitor and I selected that I want see the icons only on ...
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Program icon not appearing in window list when running
Running under the Cinnamon Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 16.04, I have a desktop file for my app in ~/Desktop/ that shows up just fine and launches my app.
However, when the app appears in the window ...
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Link minimize/maximize/on top between parent/child app windows
I run several apps split between two monitors and I'd love to have parent and child windows minimizing/maximizing and brought to top by each other as they behave in Windows. Anyone know if this is ...
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How can I disable the quicksearch in “Save as...” dialogue?
In the “Save as...” dialogue the quicksearch function captures keyboard entries if I want to rename the file although the target file name is marked:
This is annoying. Although I know that I’m ...
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16.04, cinnamon, logging in to background only
Team moved to a new floor; system power was removed while I was at lunch (ugh). Powered on at new location, logged in, and... the desktop environment stated failed to start session "cinnamon"...
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Unable to use other Desktop Environments through login in 16.04
I had Cinnamon installed and after system reboot, tried to choose Cinnamon ( currently on Unity ) through the login menu. Unfortunately, when I click the icon, the whole page text disappears and the ...
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xfce or cinnamon doesn't change input language, yet lightdm and unity does
When I try to change the input language on XFCE, or cinnamon, it fails. Although it appears as the language i am changing to is selected, the actual keyboard strokes still produces the language I was ...
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My apps are enlarged on Ubuntu, how to change overall settings for it?
I'm using 1980x1080 monitors. Chrome, IntelliJ and Terminals are kind of enlarged. Their texts are kind of huge. Apparently it has something to do with Unity Environment. I've tried Cinnamon ...
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Ubuntu 17.04 Not Shutdown
My ubuntu is not shutting down. Shutdown is Frozen
Freeze
Note : grub default acpi=force or reboot=force, EFI not run.
System : MSI GE60 2PC Apache
Graphic Drivers : Nvidia-375(ppa:graphics-drivers/...
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Can't install nemo-seahorse
I've tried installing nemo-seahorse extension for nemo file manager after installing it as given in the following sites
http://www.webupd8.org/2016/11/nemo-320-with-unity-patches-and-without.html
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