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Cinnamon is a GTK+ based desktop environment. It was originally started as a fork of the GNOME Shell, which is a user interface, and was initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint.

Cinnamon is a based desktop environment. It was originally started as a fork of the Shell, which is a user interface, and was initially developed by (and for) .

Initially, GNOME Shell was forked to create the Cinnamon project, allowing the Linux Mint developers better control over the development process and to implement their own vision of the GNOME interface for use in future releases of Linux Mint. Cinnamon 2.0 was released on 10 October 2013. From this version, Cinnamon is no longer a frontend on top of the GNOME desktop like Unity or GNOME Shell, but "an entire desktop environment". Cinnamon is still built on GNOME technologies and uses GTK+, but it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed. Biggest changes in this release are

  • improved edge-tiling
  • improved user management
  • configurable individual sound effects
  • performance improvements for full screen applications

Cinnamon provides many features, including

  • Desktop effects, including animations and transition effects
  • A movable panel equipped with a main menu, launchers, a window list and the system tray
  • Various extensions
  • Applets that appear on the panel
  • Overview with functions similar to that in GNOME Shell
  • Settings editor for easy customization.

You can use the tag if your question is related to the Cinnamon environment or any application depending upon it.

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Cinnamon: Modifying the "Show Desktop" (+ other system applets) Icon

I'm new to cinnamon and I'm disappointed that some of the system applets cannot have their icons modified easily. After seeing that, I did a find from my root directory for "show-desktop" and found a…
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Linux Mint Cinnamon error opening settings (No module named 'PIL')

since I updated Cinnamon to 5.0.6 I can't access any entry under 'Preferences', nothing happens. When I try to open from CLI I have the following : #> cinnamon-settings No module named 'PIL' I searched a lot but nothing suits my problem. I…
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Introduction in developing Cinnamon Shell Extension (Desklet) in CJS / GJS (Gnome JavaScript)?

I started learning how to write Cinnamon extensions. Well, I try to ... While I managed to write a first simple desklet, I still didn't find a really good and up to date documentation and introduction. I have the following questions and would be…
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Running software-sources results in Python error (LMDE 3)

I am in need to run the Software Sources GUI (no, my job cannot be completed through apt or aptitude). Since the window would never load if I navigated from the launcher, I decided to see what happens if I were to run it from the command…
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How to snap a window to the middle of the screen using keyboard shortcuts in Cinnamon?

I installed Linux Mint 19 "Tara" with Cinnamon 3.8.6. I'm able to use the "windows" aka "super" key plus left or right arrow to snap opened windows to the left or right of the screen. With a large monitor (3440x1440), I'm often dragging windows to…
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Why is this custom nemo action not turning up in the context menu?

Here are the contents of my /home/usrname/.local/share/nemo/actions [Nemo Action] Name=Add to portamusic Comment=Transcodes each file Ogg Vorbis and copies it to portamusic Exec=/home/usrname/bin/add-to-portamusic.sh…
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Style window borders of individual application on Linux Mint Cinnamon

I would like to style the window border of Sublime Text 3, while keeping my system's main theme unchanged. More precisely just changing the color of the respective window border would suffice to my purposes. I am using Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64…
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write a cinnamon applet that spawns a command

I'm writing an applet for Cinnamon GTK (Javascript). After many hours of research and trial and error, I finally managed to spawn a command. But I don't think that it's working efficiently. Many pages return 404 and some pages talk about the food…
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Change default file manager in Fedora 23 - Cinnamon

I just installed a fresh version of the Cinnamon spin of Fedora 23. As much as I love Nautilus/Nemo, I want to Set Thunar as my default file browser. I have tried commenting out the lines referring to nemo in the file x-cinnamon-mimeapps.list in…
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How to fix ctrl space shortcut for my IDE using Linux Mint?

On a Linux Mint machine using Cinnamon, the ctrl + space does not work. It appears to do exactly nothing, even though the keymapping is properly configured in PhpStorm. This problem does not only apply to PhpStorm, but also Eclipse or Netbeans, so I…
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How to debug why `notify-send` fails?

After a fresh restart, the notify-send command on Cinnamon desktop successfully shows a couple of notifications. But afterwards (within the first 5 minutes, and after 3 notifications have been executed) they don't appear anymore; neither on the…
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autorun script doesn't work when logout and then login

After using cx_Freeze to freeze my Python scripts into executables,the executable file named BingNiceWallpapers. I want it to autorun when logging in,so write this script named BingNiceWallpapers.desktop putted it in ~/.config/autorun [Desktop…
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Change keyboard shortcuts in Cinnamon does not work

Changing a keyboard shortcut does in cinnamon settings menu does not work. I've got two shortcuts (from default configuration) Alt+F7 and Alt+F8 which I'd like to remove. Removing them in the System settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Windows…
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Cinnamon theme - Some apps only use Adwaita theme?

It's not a major issue, but it's been really bothering me. When I use apps like gnome-calculator, evince, or simple-scan, they never leave the default Adwaita theme. Is this normal or is there a way to get them to play nice with the theme I have set…
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How can I change a keyboard shortcut in Mint 17.1 Cinnamon?

I have just installed Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and I'm finding keyboard shortcuts conflicting with Intellij and Emacs. The one giving me a lot of trouble is the Ins key (lower left of the six keys between the alpha keyboard and the keypad). When I hit…
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