Yesterday i installed Archlinux to do some tests with some packages and within them, it was included to test Cinnamon.
Maybe the result is not what you expected (I'll tell you later why), but without a doubt I have been left with an excellent impression. From the outset, I don't know if the installation I did of Cinnamon about Archlinux give me the same experience regarding the behavior of this shell, compared to its official distro: Linux Mint.
The image you see at the beginning of the Post is Cinnamon running over Xfce. Yes, they have read perfectly, about xfdesktop. After installing I couldn't start Cinnamon through LightDM, so I have to enter through Xfce, run the application launcher (Alt + F2) and write:
cinnamon --replace
And voila !!! The magic is done.
My impressions
With Firefox, Thunderbird y Pidgin open, Cinnamon remains stable over 400 Mb de RAM. Perhaps the elements of Xfce that keep running underneath. Although the consumption seems somewhat high, the performance is impressive. Cinnamon It is very fast and the effects that are included by default are very smooth and elegant.
The application to manage the preferences of Cinnamon (Cinnamon Settings) It is very simple and contains what is necessary to adjust our desktop. I find the option to disable the Overview and the icon of Hot corner.
It is true that perhaps it lacks many more options, since it cannot be denied that it is still not possible to customize all the elements of the interface, such as the panel, which from my point of view is a bit tough in terms of organizing his applets.
The menu is quite fast and at least I see it more functional than any other existing start menu. From my point of view, no one can stand next to him, not even the KDE.
But do not "take away the dance", Cinnamon It behaves in a very stable way and I am sure that with the evolution of its development it will improve for the better. I'm hoping as a good thing that I just became compatible with LMDE to use it on me Debian, as an alternative next to Xfce. Without a doubt, we already have one more option in GNU / Linux and at least I love it 😀
This is my second desktop after LXDE.
You secretly love Arch Linux as much as you love Kitty
What I have in secret is the host that I am going to put you if you keep saying that I like Kitty.
You deserved that carcamal hahahaha
Ohhhh !!! the dog is great xDDDD
And the dog's eyes are KZKG ^ Gaara's eyes hahaha
It looks very good, but I loved the desktop background the most, where can I download it from?
Greetings.
http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=197634
Thank you very much, it looks good.
I still don't understand why Cinnamon consumes them so much. As I read here, the consumption is adapted to the RAM that the machine has installed, so I imagine that they must have much more RAM than me, or that the measurement that the GNOME system monitor gives me is not correct.
This is a capture of the processes of my machine, it is a Dell Vostro 1320 with 2 GB of RAM. Chromium is running with 4 tabs open, Thunderbird, VirtualBox (doing a virtual installation of Windows XP), and Dropbox and Synapse in the background.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/732/pantallazode20120206111.png
And this is what my desktop looks like 😉:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/732/pantallazode20120206111.png
400 Mb of ram is very little…., It is not a problem, as long as it does not exceed 800 or 900.
For me it is something brutal, if I saw that consumption on my machine I would have already switched to a lighter desktop. I prefer that the RAM is available for applications and not that the desktop takes it all.
By the way, I already finished my Windows XP installation so be horrified by this user agent. 😀
Man, I in windows 7 with 4 gb of ram, windows consumes me about 2 gb and so far with lots of open applications, opera, photoshop, qbittorent, wlm, pidgin, outlook, steam and excel, it has not exceeded me 2,4, there are still 1,6 left, so I don't know which app could suck as much ram as a bloody xd.
I think we have a few Microsoft employees among us.
elav, if you can convince steve ballmer to hire me and pay me 3 euros a month, i'm running xd, money is money. XD
Yes man, before talking to you, I earn the dough ... Doesn't it bother you?
Man, the one who can't see Microsoft is you, not me XD.
1: Man, elav doesn't need much money, maybe to hire a chubby girl, yes, but nothing else, so I'll take it because I need it more than him.
2: In witchcraft things, it is said that if you receive something from someone you don't like it could be a type of black magic or something like that, let's see if something is going to happen to you and you end up in misery or drugs hahaha
3: As extreme as I can be, I think I would not receive money from someone who hates
Hahaha
Cinnamon on xfce that's fine. Mint is on a very good path, I have only been with the xfce environment for 3 months and I like it a lot, there are little things that do not convince me such as the start menu and little else, as well has been written by some other site xfce has become in the refuge of the gnomers and on the other hand I quite like Cinnamon
I assume it is XFCE with GTK3 isn't it? In any case, I agree that it is a wise choice for LM to work on Cinnamon compatibility across different distros and desktops (GTK). I consider it an error of Canonical not to make Unity an interface available to any distro.
Although I am satisfied with gnome-shell (and its extensions) and do not use at the moment, neither Unity, nor Cinnamon, I would like them to be available, regardless of the distro I use.
Greetings.
gedit /usr/share/xsessions/cinnamon.desktop
and we erase the lines
TryExec = / usr / bin / cinnamon
Icon =
Ready boots from GDM3.
It works 😀
Sure it works: D, hey I signed up for the blog and made an entry on how to install Cinnamon on Debian, I sent it for review, I did that last Friday. Didn't pass the test or what happened to the entry?
We had not seen it hehe, sorry 🙂
I'm checking it right now.
I send you an email to which you leave here later.
regards
I recommend it.
I have it installed from the beta.
Cinnamon has never passed 100 megabytes, when it is idle, it returns to 40 or 50 megabytes
You talk a lot about cinnamon, but what is cinnamon? I can't find an answer in this post
WTF? You really don't know what Cinnamon is? Well, I think I have left several clues in the post. First, the image that opens the Post shows Cinnamon running. Second, in the name I left a link that takes you to all the articles in Desdelinux related to Cinnamon. However, to explain it to you in a few words:
Thank you
It looks very good, let's see if I dare to try it on my XFCE.
I want it for my debian!
Good morning, I am one more linux user, I installed fedora 16 xfce yesterday and since cinnamon came out I have wanted to try it so I downloaded and installed it, but when starting, it is left thinking then the screen darkens and it returns me to the lightDM I did what from cinnamon –replace and I won't even tell you how my pc became, the question is, should I have gnome3 installed to be able to load cinnamon or is it a desktop other than gnome3? Thanks a lot.
Regards,
If you are not using a Display Manager, you can add it to your $ HOME .xinitrc, editing it and adding:
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session-cinnamon
and then they do their due:
$ startx
Exactly .. Thanks for the information Zokeber ^^
good to say to make that brief, but as I reiterate, I have xfce instead of gnome or gnome3 will it work the same?
or do I have to download gnome3?
Thank you
I feel that elav He managed to have Cinnamon in his Xfce ... tomorrow when he is connected he will clarify the doubt 😀
Hello, could you tell me how to install cinnamon in Arch, it happens that it sends me this error:
configure: error: Package requirements (gtk + -3.0> = 3.3.3) were not met:
Requested 'gtk + -3.0> = 3.3.3' but version of GTK + is 3.2.3
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables MUFFIN_MESSAGE_CFLAGS
and MUFFIN_MESSAGE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
==> ERROR: An error occurred in build ().
Canceling ...
==> ERROR: Makepkg failed to compile muffin-git.
Thanks in advance…
Well I did a reinstallation of cinnamon updating its components but even so I have not been able to start it since in the DM to start the session I choose cinnamon I put my password the black screen is put and it returns to the DM, for lack of respect to my problem I will have to uninstall it and go back to ubuntu.
anyway thanks a lot for the help.
There are already repositories, this post has become obsolete.
Follow these steps:
https://blog.desdelinux.net/instalar-mate-en-debian-testing/
but instead of installing mate install
cinnamon
It is for debian testing and it worked for me from debian sid 😀
Luxury, thank you very much!
Regards!
Hello very good, I just installed cinnamon in LinuxMint 13 Maya, the problem is that every time I start the session, I do not have the panel where the "Menu" button is, well I really do not have any panel
At the moment load the «mate-panel», since I have no idea what is the command that cinnamon uses for the panel, does anyone know ??