I am using cinnamon 2.2.16-1
, awesome 3.5.5-1
and awesome-cinnamon from the Arch Linux AUR. The awesome-cinnamon
package basically just creates the .desktop
and .session
files to load cinnamon
with awesome wm
as the window manager. This is almost perfect for me, but I would like to experiment with using the cinnamon
panel in addition to or instead of the awesome
wibox
, because the cinnamon
panel has attractive icons for the audio, wifi and power controls.
I can't seem to find any way to start the cinnamon
panel. I am left thinking that the cinnamon
panel must be part of cinnamon's
window manager. It seems from googling that there used to be a program gnome-panel
and cinnamon-panel
, but these don't seem to exist anymore. Does anyone know of a way to get this working?
cat /usr/share/xsessions/awesome-cinnamon.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Awesome Cinnamon
Comment=Dynamic window manager
TryExec=/usr/bin/cinnamon
Exec=cinnamon-session-cinnamon --session=awesome
Type=XSession
cat /usr/share/cinnamon-session/sessions/awesome.session:
[Cinnamon Session]
Name=Awesome session
RequiredComponents=cinnamon-settings-daemon;awesome;
RequiredProviders=windowmanager;notifications;
DefaultProvider-windowmanager=awesome
DefaultProvider-notifications=notification-daemon
$ cinnamon-TabTab:
cinnamon-desktop-editor cinnamon-screensaver-lock-dialog
cinnamon-extension-tool cinnamon-session
cinnamon-json-makepot cinnamon-session-cinnamon
cinnamon-launcher cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d
cinnamon-looking-glass cinnamon-session-properties
cinnamon-menu-editor cinnamon-session-quit
cinnamon-screensaver cinnamon-settings
cinnamon-screensaver-command cinnamon-settings-users
PKGBUILD
, is about 8 months old, the latest upstream change as well. I think you're better of asking on github or leave feedback at the AUR page. – Sebastian Sep 13 '14 at 22:35