I used Cinnamon for some time during my first successful attempt adopting Linux on the desktop. I was curious whether the clipboard/FreeRDP issue would manifest with other desktop environments. There was a frequent problem using the clipboard with Remmina/FreeRDP, where by copying to the clipboard would lock the remote session up for several seconds.Gnome does not want to let you hide the top bar.I switched back to using Cinnamon because: If you have any questions or feedback, let us know in the comments below.For the last year I’ve been running the Gnome desktop environment with Debian Bullseye. Install the packages # sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring cinnamon cinnamon-session cinnamon-settingsįollowing the instructions above, you should be able to get a working Cinnamon desktop environment on your Debian system. deb debian main upstream import # echo 'deb debian main upstream import' > /etc/apt/sources.list Add the following repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. The cinnamon desktop can also be installed using the linux mint repositories. Simply logout and select Cinnamon desktop on the login screen and you should get into cinnamon finally. It will install a lot of gnome libraries if they are not already available. So install it right away with apt-get # apt-get install cinnamon P cinnamon-dbg - Innovative and comfortable desktop (Debugging cinnamon is there in the repository. P cinnamon-common - Innovative and comfortable desktop (Common data files) P cinnamon - Innovative and comfortable desktop Now search for the cinnamon package aptitude search cinnamon This is necessary, otherwise all packages will be upgraded to testing branch un-necessarily. Which means that a package will be installed from testing only if it is not available in stable. It basically tells apt to give the stable branch higher preference over the testing branch. What the above piece of text does is called pinning. Next, create a file /etc/apt/preferences if it does not exist already and add the following to it Package: * Now copy the lines again and paste at the end of the file and change wheezy to testing. It should finally look like this deb wheezy main contrib non-free ![]() In my sources file the lines were deb wheezy mainĮdit the lines and add 'contrib non-free' to the end. applets, desklets, themes, extensions) straight from your desktop.Ĭinnamon is available in the debian testing contrib repository.įirst open your /etc/apt/sources.list file and edit the main deb lines towards the starting that point to the wheezy main repository. ![]() In Cinnamon 1.8 you can install spices (i.e. However this is still under development and there are not many desklets available yet.Īs the development continues we hope to see more desklets coming up. You no longer need to use Gnome Control Center.Ĭinnamon now supports desktop widgets called desklets, similar to plasmoids on KDE desktop. You can also set your "away message" before locking the screen.Īll configuration modules are now present in Cinnamon Settings. ![]() Under each place, if applicable, a small bar indicates how much space is used.Ĭinnamon now features its own screensaver. ![]() You can now easily hide the sidebar and switch back and forth between places and treeview. Its user interface was heavily modified and its behavior was adapted to integrate better with Cinnamon. It is derived from the Gnome 3 desktop, but provides the traditional kind of desktop environment.Ĭinnamon uses Muffin, a fork of the GNOME 3 window manager Mutter, as its window manager from Cinnamon 1.2 onwards What is new in version 1.8Īs of version 1.8 the cinnamon desktop has received quite a few feature additions.
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