Questions tagged [cinnamon]
Cinnamon is desktop environment which is a fork of GNOME Shell. It is derived from GNOME 3 but has a look and feel closer to GNOME 2.
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Adwaita Background Appears Much Darker in Reality
I like the default Adwaita background that came with cinnamon installed on Arch linux. For some reason however this background is very dark, much darker than it appears in the settings for choosing ...
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Is there a key binding to switch to "last" workspace in mint 17.2?
Mint 17.2, Cinnamon.
I use dconf editor to set up my hot keys to switch between workspaces. Here is the relevant portion of my workspace key bindings:
What I want is a key binding that switches back ...
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How Do I Install Themes In Cinnamon?
I downloaded a couple of themes for Cinnamon but I don't know how to install them. The website I went to said:
To install a theme: Download it and decompress it in ~/.themes.
I type ~/.themes into ...
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Better Workspace Switch Indication Linux Mint
Is there a way to install a better indicator that I have changed workspaces in Linux Mint? For instance currently I get the text in the center of the screen saying Workspace 1, Workspace 2, etc. Is ...
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How to use Desktop Lock Screen and turn off XScreenSaver Login Screen?
I am running Linux Mint 17.1, Cinnamon Desktop, Compiz, and XScreenSaver.
I want to be able to use the Desktop Lock Screen and turn off the XScreenSaver Lock Screen.
Turning off the Lock Screen in ...
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Application icons missing from Cinnamon panel when running as root
I've written a little application and added its icons to /usr/share/icons/
path. I use Cinnamon desktop.
When I run the application the desired icon appears correctly in the panel. But if I run it ...
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openSUSE - Remove all packages from a repository [duplicate]
I've installed cinnamon in my openSUSE to try it, but I didn't liked and removed cinnamon and cinnamon-session, but I noticed that there were still a lot of packages from this repository installed.
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Weird dropshadow in Linux Mint Cinnamon panel (VirtualBox)
On my Linux Mint VM I see some weird drop shadows in my panel. What's causing this and how do I get rid of them? I tried changing themes but both dark themes ("Cinnamon" and "Linux Mint") seem to be ...
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Where is the Cinnamon LookingGlass log?
I run Linux Mint 17.1. When I log in I get a Cinnamon notification saying:
Problems during Cinnamon startup
Cinnamon started successfully, but one or more applets, desklets or extension failed to ...
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how to hide a window from ALT+TAB in cinnamon?
I have Virtualbox in my Linux Mint box, my Virtualbox is always running, so when I want to change my applications using Alt+Tab I'm always redirected to my Virtualbox window, because it's always in my ...
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How to Insert a command to run before Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Cinnamon, sleeps
I am using Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, with Cinnamon on a laptop.
(I believe Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome).
In the system settings I have set the laptop to sleep after 20 minutes of inactivity.
I wish ...
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Linux mint has just crashed - Jessie 8 (LMDE)
I did a normal update to the system last night and after reboot my computer just stopped working and keeps falling back to 'fallback mode'. I tried to reinstall Cinnamon without success. I tried to ...
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How to programmatically rename virtual desktop on Cinnamon
I'm looking for a way to programmatically create a new desktop and then immediately give it some arbitrary name.
Creating a new desktop is not a problem, but I can't find a way to rename it.
I'm ...
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Installing KDE broke my Cinnamon installation
I started my adventure with Linux Mint installing the MATE DE. Then I installed Cinnamon and switched to it. Recently I wanted to try KDE out. So I installed mint-meta-kde, kde-full, amarok, kde-...
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No keyboard layouts in Cinnamon 2.6.7
I upgraded my Cinnamon DE (in Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca) via sudo apt-get install cinnamon, from my Xfce DE. All is working well except for the keyboard layouts. I'm stuck with a US English layout and ...
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What themes are those under Controls in Cinnamon themes?
I have installed many Cinnamon themes but those listed under Desktop affect mostly the Panel, not the windows texture:
The window frame is set under Windows Borders, but what I am interested in is ...
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Mint 17 (Cinnamon): CTRL+Shift+U not letting me enter unicode symbols
I realize there's probably a simple answer to this question. I come from Ubuntu (Unity) and am used to type unicode symbols with Ctrl+Shift+U, followed by the symbol's code and Enter.
This doesn't ...
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Disable certain operating system keystrokes and mouse actions on Cinnamon
I'm using Linux Mint, and many of the operating system keystrokes/mouse functions conflict with Blender functions. For example, when I try to hold down alt and drag, it moves the entire window, ...
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How to add more system event sound effects in Cinnamon?
How can I add more sounds to different system events on Linux for different actions or events? For example by default on some Linux desktops, say Linux Mint for example, you get sound effects when you ...
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Cursor position, dragging and resizing windows... with multiple monitors
I was finally able to get my four identically sized screens to work together, with three on one graphics card ( GeForce GTX 750 ) and one on a second card ( GeForce GT 730 ) in X11. It was a really ...
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How to add shortcut to Cinnamon taskbar
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with Cinnamon desktop. After trying to create a shortcut for a PDF file to Cinnamon's Taskbar, I found maybe I should have searched for a folder containing the Taskbar's ...
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Creating multiple pngs with ImageMagick causes slow desktop
I am running Linux Mint 17, Cinnamon 2.4.8
Hello, I am using ImageMagick to create large 500+ png images.
This causes Cinnamon to go very slow.
I would understand if Cinnamon is slow WHILE I am ...
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Bluetooth mouse paring in Linux Mint Cinnamon
I'm having an hard time trying to pair my Apple magic mouse on Mint Cinnamon... keyboard pairing was fast and dead simple, but due to a weird behavior in the gui I'm not able to enter the code for ...
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How can I automate window tiling with a custom width? (Cinnamon)
I am running Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 2.4.8.
I really like xdotool, but it conflicts with Cinnamon's awesome snapping/tiling feature.
If I run the following command, it does NOT work if the current ...
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Closing a GUI window from the command line
I often run scripts to transform a CSV file which I then preview in LibreOffice. I often open the CSV with xdg-open file.csv. However, if I run that command when the file is already open, ...
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Themes app not showing preview for installed GTK themes (Window borders and Controls) in Cinnamon
I have installed Cinnamon in Ubuntu using a ppa. The problem I have is that newly installed GTK themes won't show previews in Themes application. Here are the screenshots. .As you can see the Window ...
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Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 2.4.8 64-bit - Weird Desktop Crash
This crash thing is happining third time for me. I solved the last two by a refresh install of mint, formatted I mean. Nothing special happened when I was using the computer, than I shut it down. By ...
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custom nemo actions / bash script
i am trying to add a custom action to the nemo file manager. The purpose of the action is just to replace all whitespace in the filename by "_".
My action file looks like this:
[Nemo Action]
Name=...
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Dual Monitors on Cinnamon 2.4.8 - cursor gets stuck on bottom and top right of left screen
Running Mint 17.1 with Cinammon 2.4.8 and I have two 2560 * 1440 monitors, both placed in the display settings as next to each other, not mirrored.
The mouse cursor moves as normal between the two ...
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2 monitors on GPU, 1 monitor on integrated graphics
I am on linux mint 17.1 cinnamon. Here is my xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/6xCncZJ5
I can move my mouse around on the 3 monitors but can not drag the windows over the borders. Cinnamon is running in ...
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Automatically logout of cinnamon after period of idle
I have been searching around and I have been unable to find something that can logout of a cinnamon session after a period of inactivity. I am running Fedora 21 and I do not want something that will ...
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Linux Mint & LIFEREA rss reader
I have the linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon distribution installed on my laptop and I cannot launch the software Liferea from the terminal, although, it will work fine if I launch that using the menu/icon.
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Firefox loses focus when switching keyboard layouts
I use many different keyboard layouts and I do change them often. That is why I defined keyboard shortcuts in Cinnamon (alt+F1, alt+F2 and so on). Now, this works ok in the applications I use, except ...
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How to find out what the Cinnamon process does
I would like to identify what draws power in Cinnamon (the process not the entire desktop) aka what eats the cpu and causes the context switches. It is not about finding out what draws power overall ...
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github gist snippet management
I'm rewriting my question, since it appears to not have been clear enough...
I am trying to find a way to pull the content from a github gist and put that content into either the terminal itself, a ...
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Have window covered by others even when active in mint cinnamon
I recently switched to Linux Mint with Cinnamon as the desktop environment. I much prefer it over Compiz but there is one feature that I'm sorely missing, in Compiz you can set window rules, and more ...
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Number of installed keyboard layouts in Linux Mint Qiana
I cannot add more than 4 keyboard layouts in Linux Mint Qiana running Cinnamon. Is that normal?
Is there such limitation or I am doing something wrong?
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.xsession executed on login in Linux Mint Cinnamon
I've put a command to change my keyboard mapping in .xession, but this does not appear to be executed on login in Cinnamon, although it seems to work fine on an older MATE box.
Since first asking ...
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Double screen: desktops "moving" with the mouse
I am running Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, with Cinnamon 2.4.5.
I have a double screen: my laptop's¹ screen, and another (Dell) screen, both with resolution 1920×1080. I have a strange bug (maybe is it a ...
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Using NVIDIA instead of Intel causes a different theme
My current setup is a laptop with an NVIDIA Optimus graphics card running Ubuntu 14.10 with Cinnamon as my desktop environment.
I usually use the Intel card because of the reason I'm asking this ...
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Using a picture as background in the filebrowser Nemo for directories which are not the home directory
im currently configuring Linux Mint Cinnamon 17 on a SSD as a Christmas present.
I want to have the file-browser nemo display a .jpeg instead of a plain background in
directories which should not be ...
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Custom global keybindings in cinnamon via gsettings
I am trying to setup some keyboard shortcuts for cinnamon:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings custom-list \
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'custom1', \
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Cinnamon not working on Mint 17
I installed Mint 17 on an older desktop and everything is OK, but the start menu is not being rendered correctly. It either does not appear at all when you click on it, or it appears empty (no icons). ...
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how to install nividia bumbulbee in linux mint 17.1 (cinnamon)?
I am having Nvidia GEFORCE 610m graphic card.
whenever i install nvidia drivers in mint cinnamon 17.1 my cinnamon crashes and my cinnamon goes in fallback mode !!
SO how can i install bumblebee in ...
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Weird mouse problem Linux Mint
I have linux mint 17.1 cinnamon 32bit. I installed these packages:
lxde lubuntu-core lubuntu-icon-theme lubuntu-restricted-extras
I selected lightdm as defaut. After that I log off and log in on ...
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Super + Space as shortcut for layout switching. Linux Mint Cinnamon
I have installed Linux Mint with Cinnamon recently. I have swapped my Alt and Super keys and now I want to set Super + Space keys to switch between layouts. How can I do that trick?
I've searched this ...
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how to fix this: cinnamon stopped. your system is running in fallback mode
yesterday, I found out that the mint 13 xfce installation is acting different then before.
I noticed that my dad's account was not looking it should normally. I tried my mom's account and when logged ...
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Prevent auto-selected text from copying
I really like the Linux-style copy paste (highlight text to copy, middle-click to paste) - except when text is automatically highlighted in a dialog box. For instance, selecting text on a web page ...
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Possible conflicts beteeen Xfce/Thunar and Cinnamon/Nemo
On Ubuntu and Linux Mint websites and forums people usually say that these two desktops can be used as parallel sessions, in Ubuntu or Mint without any problem.
I have used a lot Xfce and Xubuntu and ...
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Are Cinnamon themes changing only the the panel?
Using Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon with different themes, I see that few elements are changing with the theme, while most remain unchanged, especially the general background of windows and applications, ...
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