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Cinnamon is very great. Also nemo, the nautilus fork of 3.4, because |
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nautilus 3.6 is a very big regression in manys opinion (mine too). |
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Ive had soo many problem with gnome 3 (mainly performance), so i |
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switchesd to lxde. |
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It felt like replacing an intel pentium 4 with a core i7.... |
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now i am using lxde within my gentoo, and cinnamon on my secondary |
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screen (linux mint). |
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I love cinnamon. But it is unusable in my opinion, because it is on top |
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of gnome3. they should make this working standalone! :)) |
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On 10/15/2012 01:26 AM, walt wrote: |
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> I'm back in gnome heaven again, thanks to cinnamon-1.6.1 :) |
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> First I'd like to thank Canek for his generous help to all of us |
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> here who have been struggling with gnome-shell. I'm sure I'll |
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> try gnome-shell again when it's more mature, but for now I'm |
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> sticking with cinnamon. It's a giant step backward and I love it :) |
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> The newly ported system-monitor panel applet for cinnamon is what |
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> convinced me to switch -- it now looks and behaves exactly like the |
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> old gnome2 version. |
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> There are a couple of things you should know if you've never tried |
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> cinnamon before. (These may already be documented in the gentoo |
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> wiki but I haven't looked, which is why I had to figure them out |
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> for myself :) |
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> Once you have cinnamon emerged, how do you actually start it? Just |
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> put this line in your .xinitrc: |
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> exec ck-launch-session gnome-session --session=cinnamon |
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> BTW I tried deleting the ck-launch-session. That broke auto-mounting |
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> of removable media like usb sticks, so I put it back. I'm sure this |
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> will change rapidly when systemd becomes the default, but systemd is |
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> not mature enough yet for my taste so I'm sticking with openrc for now. |
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> Second, and very important for the system-monitor panel applet, is |
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> that networkmanager must be running for the network activity to be |
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> visible in the applet. That took me a few days to work out :p |
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> Another big change in the panel applet is that you must turn on the |
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> "Panel edit mode" before you can add any other applets to it. That's |
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> done by right-clicking on the panel. Then turn edit mode off again |
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> before the panel will work as expected. That's very confusing if |
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> you have to find it by trial-and-error ;) |
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> I'd be interested to hear other opinions about cinnamon. |
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