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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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