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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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I keep receiving "fish_pager cannot connect to universal variable server"

I keep receiving an error in fish: kmejka@kmejka ~> cd .c fish_pager: Could not connect to universal variable server, already tried manual restart (or no command supplied). You will not be able to share variable values between fish sessions. Is…
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Cinnamon renice on launch

I installed Ubuntu and changed shell to Cinnamon. Is there any possible way to renice on launch Cinnamon to, let's say, -19? I tried to change /usr/bin/cinnamon_launcher like this, but it doesn't help: cinnamon_pid = os.fork() if cinnamon_pid == 0: …
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How can I get the WID via bash which window the mouse pointer is over?

The question refers to: Linux Ubuntu, with Cinnamon desktop Several program windows can be displayed on a desktop. How can I get the WID via bash which window the mouse pointer is over?
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python gtk dark theme icon buttons

After changing the theme on my Cinnamon Desktop to a dark theme (Adwaita-dark) a program that I wrote a while ago now displays the buttons incorrect. While e.g. in other programs like the file manager the color of the icons is now white they stay…
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Can't install mint-meta-cinnamon on LinuxMint Cinnamon-19

When I ran sudo apt-get install mint-meta-cinnamon, I got these errors : Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required…
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Align Label text in Button and Tooltip text of Cinnamon Desklet to left

I have a Cinnamon Desklet which consists of a Button. The Button has a Label (with some text) and also a Tooltip: const Desklet = imports.ui.desklet; const St = imports.gi.St; const Tooltips = imports.ui.tooltips; function MyDesklet(metadata,…
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I am not able to login

When i enter my password an alert appears on screen saying Your Session lasted only 10 seconds ....... When i click the checbox saying view details(~/.xsession-errors file) it shows Initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket…
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Cinnamon CSD and Firefox = unnecessary border around Firefox window

Cinnamon + Client Side Decorator + Firefox dev edition (60 beta) = unnecessary border around Firefox window - also after maximize window. How change this? The wine is Cinnamona? Firefox? Theme (I have a standard)?
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Cinnamon desklet does not pick up changes

I want to write a Cinnamon desklet, but I do not get the development cycle right. I started with a hello world desklet. Files are in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/desklets/hello@world desklet.js const Desklet = imports.ui.desklet; function…
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Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon desktop too many files error

After running cinnamon desktop for a while, I eventually get a "too many files open" error. This typically occurs after leaving my laptop on overnight, or midway thru a day. Here's my system details: $ cat…
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How to maximize tiled window in cinnamon?

Cinnamon has nice tile mode (win-left/right/up/down). But if window was tiled, it's hard to maximize it back on full screen if there are few tiled windows? Is someone knew how to maximize tiled window?
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WebKit Screensaver: setTimeout vs. requestAnimationFrame()

I'm developing a custom screensaver based on HTML5/JS for cinnamon :-D. It moves some things around. Very similar to the default windows-flag screensaver from WinXP times. (For anyone who doesn't remember it: A tiny static picture is moved to…
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What message is sent to the window when user click X on top bar to close the app

When a user click on top bar X button to close the window (the one near minimize and maximize buttons) what message is received by the app? In windows is a WM_CLOSE, what about in Linux? I use Linux Mint.
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lua-lgi libnotify add_action callback not being called

I followed the hello world example on this page to set up lua-lgi and libnotify, successfully getting a notification that looks and acts the samea s if using os.execute("notify-send..."). Notify-send does not allow user actions, from what I've…
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Cinnamon take too long time to start

Is this normal ? info t=2016-04-28T09:57:34Z Cinnamon.AppSystem.get_default() started in 51020 ms info t=2016-04-28T09:57:52Z AppletManager.init() started in 13658 ms info t=2016-04-28T09:57:52Z Cinnamon took 69321 ms to start
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