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Cinnamon is desktop environment which is a fork of GNOME Shell. It is derived from GNOME 3 but has a look and feel closer to GNOME 2.

The Cinnamon desktop environment is a fork of GNOME Shell . It uses code from GNOME 3, but emulates the look and feel of GNOME 2 , in particular keeping the desktop metaphor. Cinnamon was initiated by Linux Mint developers.

Cinnamon includes:

  • Muffin, a window manager based on Mutter

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Cinnamon Getting rid of CTRL-ALT-A shortcut

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 with default Cinnamon 3.6.7. I'm using emacs and when I press CTRL-ALT-A, Cinnamon hijacks the keys and does something weird with my terminals. It bring them all on my current workspace, but there are also some blank ones…
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Is there a shortcut to move currently active application to workspace x in cinnamon?

Is there any way to move the currently active window to another workspace? For example, if Firefox is currently active and I press shift+win+F2, then Firefox would get moved to workspace 2, like in i3 window manager. I know it can be done with…
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How to change the default window size in Cinnamon?

For some applications cinnamon seems to remember which size they were in last time, so when I start them, the window size is perfect. For others (for example system settings, terminal) this does not seem to be the case. Is there a way to assign a…
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Cinnamon: Desktop background from nested directory structure?

I have a nested directory structure with travel pictures under ~/Pictures/Shotwell-Import/YYYY/MM/DD/. I would like my desktop background to be randomly picked from those pictures. Unfortunately, it seems that Cinnamon expects a flat directory,…
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How to modify Cinnamon desktop drag-drop window size guide

As shown in the video above, you can see when I drag a window to the left edge of the desktop, it suggests a window resize up to half of the screen by an overlaying translucent box. And if I drop the window at this point, the window gets resized to…
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Keyboard shortcut with 'fn' combination in cinnamon

My keyboard has several Fn key shortcuts and I can use combinations like Fn+F3 to increase the volume, Fn+F9 to reduce brightness and it works. There are some combinations that do nothing or are useless, for example: Fn+F5 to search and Fn+F12, to…
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How to restart the Fedora + Cinnamon desktop from the command line?

In the Fedora+Cinnamon desktop, ALT+F2 opens a command window, and then entering a "r" causes the window session to be restarted, without terminating the login or any of the other running tasks. What command can be executed, say from bash, to…
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Export Application List from LInux Mint Startmenu

Is it possible to export to a text file a list with all the applications that appear in Linux Mint Startmenu ? I need that in order to know what programs there are installed on my PC (without dependencies and lots of packages). Thx.
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Gtk-WARNING: Theme parsing error:

i've been experiencing several issues with my cinnamon in Linux Mint 17.3. I've been checking the syslog after every boot and have noticed a particular error every single time. This issue maybe be related to this other question for which I haven't…
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In Cinnamon, when pressing super+right, how to move to next display

My muscle memory is used to press super+cursor right until the Window is in the right position. I know that shift+super+cursor right can be used to instantly move to the next screen. However, then I need to use super+cursor right to adjust it to the…
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How can I Install Cinnamon 5.4 on Debian 11?

How can I Install Cinnamon 5.4 on Debian 11? I must download it from GitHub or from a repo?
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all cinnamon fonts defect

All text in cinnemon is broken: I already tried resetting cinnemon to defaults dconf reset -f /org/cinnamon/ And tried this: gsettings reset org.cinnamon.desktop.interface font-name gsettings reset org.nemo.desktop font gsettings reset…
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bluetooth headset is paired but not working cinammon 19.1

bluetooth headsets are paired but not working cinammon 19.1 although I can see the bluetooth headset icons in Sound > Output and choose one of them, the headset is not working. It used to be working but not anymore. I'm not sure how to fix this.
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How to completely disable light-locker and replace it with GDM lockscreen

I am using cinnamon and I really like it but the only problem I have is I do not want light-locker every time I do ctrl + alt + l I want the gdm lockscreen to show when I press those keys. I tried to disable the lightlocker systemctl but it doesn't…
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Cinnamon crashes if I disable hardware acceleration

If I disable hardware acceleration like described here and reboot my Linux Mint machine, I get an error that Cinnamon crashed and that I'm running in fallback mode. Does anyone know how I can make Cinnamon work without hardware acceleration?
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