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Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:21 am
by vamsi
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 3:30 pm
by Krissharm
Does everything work?
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:12 pm
by Rita G.
. . so . . are you going to tell us how you did it? . . or are you going to keep t a secret?

Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:35 am
by vamsi
Rita G. wrote: Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:12 pm
. . so . . are you going to tell us how you did it? . . or are you going to keep t a secret?
I couldn't understand you question ?
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:36 am
by Eadwine Rose
How did you install it.. I wager that is what is asked.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:41 am
by vamsi
Rita G. wrote: Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:12 pm
. . so . . are you going to tell us how you did it? . . or are you going to keep t a secret?
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:16 pm
by Rita G.

Thank you.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:47 pm
by sdibaja
success
but I need to track down what this is:

Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:25 pm
by Rita G.
did that;
just keeps booting to xfce.

Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:43 pm
by Mauser
Rita G. wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:25 pm
did that;
just keeps booting to xfce.
Click on the upper right of the login screen. It should show the desktops installed and select Cinnamon.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:46 pm
by Rita G.
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Click on the upper right of the login screen. It should show the desktops installed and select Cinnamon.
I don't have that.
I opted for autologin during installation.

Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:10 pm
by ChrisUK
Rita G. wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:46 pm
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Click on the upper right of the login screen. It should show the desktops installed and select Cinnamon.
I don't have that.
I opted for autologin during installation.
Just select
Log out from the shutdown window... then choose the desktop and log back in
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Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:20 pm
by Rita G.
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Just select Log out from the shutdown window... then choose the desktop and log back in
kewel!
Thank you Chris!
and you too Mauser!

Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:43 pm
by Jerry3904
And you can change autologin of you want by using MX User Manager
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:08 pm
by koesherbacon
What did you mean when you said your cinnamon is lighter on the resources than original cinnamon? If I or anyone else were to `sudo apt install cinnamon`, we'd have the original cinnamon... right? So what else did you do in order to make your lower resources Diet Cinnamon?
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:32 pm
by Adrian
koesherbacon wrote: Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:08 pm
What did you mean when you said your cinnamon is lighter on the resources than original cinnamon? If I or anyone else were to `
sudo apt install cinnamon`, we'd have the original cinnamon... right? So what else did you do in order to make your lower resources
Diet Cinnamon?
I guess he means something else by "original cinnamon? Maybe he means older version?
BTW, I tried and liked how it looks, but when I returned to Xfce I felt like I'm at home. Also the difference between resource utilization between Xfce and Cinnamon is pretty significant, Cinnamon uses almost double the memory.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:07 am
by vamsi
koesherbacon wrote: Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:08 pm
What did you mean when you said your cinnamon is lighter on the resources than original cinnamon? If I or anyone else were to `
sudo apt install cinnamon`, we'd have the original cinnamon... right? So what else did you do in order to make your lower resources
Diet Cinnamon?
Ya when i installed Linux Mint cinnamon it became very slow but when i installed cinnamon like that it is some what lighter than cinnamon at that time that is what iam talking about..
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:32 am
by asqwerth
That's probably because the Ubuntu base of Mint is heavier and slower than Debian base, that's all. Not that Cinnamon desktop is faster when installed manually.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 6:15 am
by vamsi
asqwerth wrote: Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:32 am
That's probably because the Ubuntu base of Mint is heavier and slower than Debian base, that's all. Not that Cinnamon desktop is faster when installed manually.
Yes you are right!
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:46 am
by Adrian
asqwerth wrote: Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:32 am
That's probably because the Ubuntu base of Mint is heavier and slower than Debian base, that's all. Not that Cinnamon desktop is faster when installed manually.
I would venture another explanation, because MX base is lighter than Mint base so if you load Cinnamon on top it will still be lighter, with Mint he probably hits some memory barriers on his system which makes the entire system slower.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 1:52 pm
by KBD
Cinnamon on LMDE 3 with most of the effects turned off idled at 610 mb ram use. I like Cinnamon best when I have around 4gb of ram because it is heavier overall than Xfce, but I have run Cinnamon on 2 gb ram, though wouldn't recommend it for 2 gb ram when Xfce is lighter on low ram. Yet Cinnamon has become quite nice.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:01 pm
by Adrian
I agree, it's quite nice, I liked how it looked when I briefly tried it and it seems like all things worked as they should.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:36 pm
by Redacted
With both Mint Cinnamon 17 and 18, I would boot at 700 mb ram and quickly rise above 900.
And that was with effects disabled. I was never able to lower it to what others said.
The same happened a couple of weeks ago when for fun I tried out Cinnamon on MX.
It's pretty, but like Adrian said, I'm at home now with XFCE.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:55 pm
by sdibaja
I have used/tested both the old and the new Cinnamon, as issued by Mint in their various spins including LMDE3Beta.
subjectively, the new version is noticeably faster.
maybe it is just the way Mint packages it, I don't know or much care. It does not appeal to me.
PS: in a T61 Thinkpad it was so slow I thought that old 5400 RPM HDD had failed... that test was Very short ;-)
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:19 pm
by Rita G.
anybody know how to make a screenshot? "Print Screen" key is not responding.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:00 pm
by Mauser
Rita G. wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:19 pm
anybody know how to make a screenshot? "Print Screen" key is not responding.
Click the following. Menu icon>all>Screenshot>make your selection entries and left click O.K.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:48 pm
by Rita G.

Thank you Mauser.

Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sun May 12, 2019 11:44 am
by dcwebsiteg
sdibaja wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:47 pm
success
but I need to track down what this is:
In my case It was because nmgtk missing.
run
sudo apt install gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0
If not found run
sudo apt-cache search nmgtk
and install the available version
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 10:35 pm
by KarmiTux
Just installed MX today, on USB for now, and its been amazing!
Used Synaptic Package Manager to install Cinnamon DE: ran cinnamon is search, then selected cinnamon-desktop-environment from list, mark for install (as with the pop-up window for other needed items), and then apply. No command prompt needed...
Looks good so far and will probably test more on a SSD tomorrow – excellent OS!
OS – MX 18.3 Continuum (x86-64)
Cinnamon Version – 3.2.7
Linux Kernel – 4.19.0-5-amd64
Processor – Celeron G4900 @ 3.10GHz x 2
Memory – 15.5 GiB
Hard Drive – 27.3 GB (actually a USB flash drive)
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:22 pm
by davemx
I've tried this, the nmgtk fix above worked for me.
One problem I still have is that I can't download the additional panel applets. The ones already installed work.
Re: Mx Linux With Cinnamon
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:30 pm
by xavierbaez
What version of cinnamon you had?
Is there any way you can try to install Cinnamon 4?