Cinnamon guide (replacement for gnome-shell)

[leigh123linux]

description

Cinnamon provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop,
like switching to windows and launching applications. Cinnamon takes
advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces
innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and
easy to use experience.




To install cinnamon

su
yum install cinnamon

After installing it logout then select cinnamon from the session menu at GDM login.


http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

[dd_wizard]

Nice timing, Leigh. I just rebooted after installing your koji rpm. I like it so far! I do miss the nice system monitor I had working in gnome shell, though. But I like having the overview, which was missing with the frippery extensions. Do you think it has a shot at getting accepted as an official Fedora package?

dd_wizard

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by dd_wizard

Nice timing, Leigh. I just rebooted after installing your koji rpm. I like it so far! I do miss the nice system monitor I had working in gnome shell, though. But I like having the overview, which was missing with the frippery extensions. Do you think it has a shot at getting accepted as an official Fedora package?

dd_wizard

Yes I believe so.

[input]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

Yes I believe so.

I installed it and it looks very nice. But can you also update Cinnamon ?

Thanks

Originally Posted by input

I installed it and it looks very nice. But can you also update Cinnamon ?

Thanks

The repo already has the latest stable release 1.4.0

[MALsPa]

Originally Posted by input

I installed it and it looks very nice. But can you also update Cinnamon ?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Yellowman

The repo already has the latest stable release 1.4.0

If/when a new stable release becomes available (for F16) can Cinnamon simply be updated, or would the user need to uninstall and reinstall it?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by dd_wizard

Nice timing, Leigh. I just rebooted after installing your koji rpm. I like it so far! I do miss the nice system monitor I had working in gnome shell, though. But I like having the overview, which was missing with the frippery extensions. Do you think it has a shot at getting accepted as an official Fedora package?

dd_wizard

Try this, use dconf to enable it (enabled extensions add ['systemMonitor@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'] )


I have ported the extensions from Cyberorg's repo and will upload them later

http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...openSUSE_12.1/

http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/12/...n-on-opensuse/

[Dan]

Popped right in from the repo. Thanks again!

[dd_wizard]

Dan, you'll need to tweak org > cinnamon > [ favorite-apps and panel-launchers ] with dconf-editor to get them working correctly. There's no gnome-documents.desktop in Fedora, and firefox.desktop is preceded by 'mozilla-'. Also, gnome-tweak-tool doesn't control the cinnamon window theme. You need to set it in gconf-editor at desktop > cinnamon > windows > theme and then do the alt-f2 r thing.

dd_wizard

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by dd_wizard

Dan, you'll need to tweak org > cinnamon > [ favorite-apps and panel-launchers ] with dconf-editor to get them working correctly. There's no gnome-documents.desktop in Fedora, and firefox.desktop is preceded by 'mozilla-'. Also, gnome-tweak-tool doesn't control the cinnamon window theme. You need to set it in gconf-editor at desktop > cinnamon > windows > theme and then do the alt-f2 r thing.

dd_wizard

I will correct this in the next build.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

I will correct this in the next build.

Done and pushed.

--- linuxmint-Cinnamon-1.1.2/data/org.cinnamon.gschema.xml1.in    2011-12-23 12:25:40.000000000 +0000
+++ linuxmint-Cinnamon-1.1.2/data/org.cinnamon.gschema.xml.in    2012-01-01 00:51:30.143895106 +0000
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
       </_description>
     </key>
     <key name="panel-launchers" type="as">
-      <default>[ 'firefox.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop']</default>
+      <default>[ 'mozilla-firefox.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop']</default>
       <_summary>Desktop files of the applications to put in the panel launchers applet</_summary>
       <_description>
         Cinnamon allows to show applications launchers on the panel.
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
       </_description>
     </key>
     <key name="favorite-apps" type="as">
-      <default>[ 'firefox.desktop', 'mintInstall.desktop', 'gnome-tweak-tool.desktop', 'xchat.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop' ]</default>
+      <default>[ 'mozilla-firefox.desktop', 'evolution.desktop', 'empathy.desktop', 'rhythmbox.desktop', 'shotwell.desktop', 'libreoffice-writer.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop', 'gnome-documents.desktop' ]</default>
       <_summary>List of desktop file IDs for favorite applications</_summary>
       <_description>
         The applications corresponding to these identifiers

[leigh@main_pc cinnamon-repo]$ rsync -avz * leigh123linux@fedorapeople.org:/srv/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-16
sending incremental file list
SRPMS/
SRPMS/cinnamon-1.1.2-2.fc16.src.rpm
SRPMS/repodata/
SRPMS/repodata/filelists.xml.gz
SRPMS/repodata/other.xml.gz
SRPMS/repodata/primary.xml.gz
SRPMS/repodata/repomd.xml
i386/
i386/cinnamon-1.1.2-2.fc16.i686.rpm
i386/repodata/
i386/repodata/filelists.xml.gz
i386/repodata/other.xml.gz
i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz
i386/repodata/repomd.xml
x86_64/
x86_64/cinnamon-1.1.2-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm
x86_64/repodata/
x86_64/repodata/filelists.xml.gz
x86_64/repodata/other.xml.gz
x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz
x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml

sent 3068739 bytes  received 483 bytes  97435.62 bytes/sec
total size is 6148931  speedup is 2.00
[leigh@main_pc cinnamon-repo]$

[Dan]

Originally Posted by dd_wizard

Dan, you'll need to tweak org > cinnamon > [ favorite-apps and panel-launchers ] with dconf-editor to get them working correctly. There's no gnome-documents.desktop in Fedora, and firefox.desktop is preceded by 'mozilla-'. Also, gnome-tweak-tool doesn't control the cinnamon window theme. You need to set it in gconf-editor at desktop > cinnamon > windows > theme and then do the alt-f2 r thing.

dd_wizard

OK. The themeing in cinnamon is done in overlay where the applications would have been in G-shell. It only reads what's in /usr/share/themes, though.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by dd_wizard

Dan, you'll need to tweak org > cinnamon > [ favorite-apps and panel-launchers ] with dconf-editor to get them working correctly. There's no gnome-documents.desktop in Fedora, and firefox.desktop is preceded by 'mozilla-'. Also, gnome-tweak-tool doesn't control the cinnamon window theme. You need to set it in gconf-editor at desktop > cinnamon > windows > theme and then do the alt-f2 r thing.

dd_wizard

There is

[root@main_pc leigh]# rpm -qf /usr/share/applications/gnome-documents.desktop
gnome-documents-0.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64
[root@main_pc leigh]#

[bob]

So, how's it feel being the hero to a few hundred thousand frustrated Gnome3 users?

Nice work, Leigh. Excellent option and I'm sure it's only going to get better.

[Dan]

Dang. Might have spoken too soon, Leigh. It worked fine in the Fukushima ... until I updated, (or rather, de-updated pygobject3) and logged out, then tried to log back in. Now it craters at the GFFOD, and makes you log out. Lather, rinse, repeat. <....>