Cinnamon on MX 19.1

[Assone]

Hi everyone, I installed cinnamon on MX 19.1 but on restart the cinnamon session does not appear ... can cinnamon be installed on MX 19.01?

[JayM]

log out then at the login screen explore the dropdown menus in the upper right. One of those lets you select the DE you want to log in with.

[Assone]

You are right but on reboot there is no cinnamon dropdown menus in the upper right

[junoluna]

should be at the log in screen

are you logging in automatically?

[Assone]

Yes, but also I restart session o change user there is no cinnamon dropdown menus in the upper right

[Eadwine Rose]

As far as I know there is no MX 19.01 version.

[Assone]

there was a mistake.
19.1

[junoluna]

did you download cinnamon from the repos?

i haven't tried that one but i have installed mate, plasma and budgie from the repos and they all show up as a session option

[gimcrack]

You are right but on reboot there is no cinnamon dropdown menus in the upper right

Sometime you have to manually add yourself to the .xsessions

I do a Desktop shortcut to exec a DE or WM and add it here.

/usr/share/xsessions

I had to do this when I install Pekwm. Example; pekwm.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Pekwm
Comment=Use this session to run Pekwm as your desktop environment
Keywords=window-manager
Exec=pekwm
Icon=
Type=Application

Then the drop down menu at the Display Manager it will appear to start using it. Just do the same with cinnamon.

cinnamon-session

exec /usr/bin/cinnamon-session

[asqwerth]

Perhaps a screenshot should be provided by OP to make sure we are talking about the same thing when he says there is no cinnamon dropdown menu in the top right.