Hi everybody — I’m searching for a setting and failing: is there a way to turn off redraw when you move windows around?

So that the window manager only redraws the window once you stop moving it?

Large common applet on the right, with network, audio, settings, etc., like in GNOME:

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Is there a way to rebind my extra mouse keys to things like play/pause or change desktop? I am used to being able to do this on Windows and KDE and am struggling on Cinnamon. Windows does require a special program from the trackball company, KDE has support for this built-in.

Cinnamon 6.0.4

Hi, can't turn on the light theme. If I force the windows to be light, the windows are still dark, light themes only work with the Mint-L theme. How can I fix it?

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Hi there.

I am running Cinnamon 5.6.8 on vanilla Debian.

I recently upgraded to Debian 12 (Bookworm, latest stable) and am experiencing what I believe to be a regression related to VirtualBox and the Grouped window list in the panel ... Before the upgrade I was running Debian 11 (Bullseye), which has Cinnamon 4.8.6.

In Cinnamon 4.8.6 (and even the 3.x version before the grouped window list was included), I was able to create a shortcut to a virtual machine (using VirtualBox) that I would then pin to the panel. I can pin them to the panel in the new Cinnamon as well, but unlike with older versions, upon launching, this newer Cinnamon creates a new panel icon. It does not threat the pinned icon as an application, rather it treats it as a shortcut. Instead of being able to use the existing icon to minimize, activate and reactivate a running VM, similar to how the grouped window list acts with any regular app, I now have to interact with the new icon that is created upon launching the VM. I hope this makes sense?

I am pretty sure I have narrowed this down to Cinnamon itself. I have verified that this issue persists on a fresh install, so it is not related to leftover cruft and whatnot from the upgrade, and the version of Virtualbox is the same before and after the upgrade.

EDIT: Debian 11 is "BULLSEYE" ... not "Buster" ... I wish they didn't have three "Bs" in a row!

Hey everyone,

I've been facing a weird issue. Whenever I use any browser to save an image, the pop-up window that asks where I want to save the file and what I want to name it isn't automatically in focus. Unlike in Windows or Mac, where you can immediately start typing and hit enter to save, in my case, I have to manually click the pop-up to bring it into focus first.

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I've tried tweaking the window focus settings using dconf Editor, adjusting options like focus-mode and focus-new-windows, but unfortunately, it didn't resolve the issue. I'm not sure if it's a specific setting in Cinnamon or something else.

Has anyone else experienced this or have any suggestions on how I could fix it? I appreciate any advice or insights you can provide. Thanks in advance!

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I want to add a few console.log() in an xapp javascript file.
( This one /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/xapp-status@cinnamon.org/applet.js )

How can I view the log afterwards?

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Low velocity subreddit, but not sure where else is a relevant place to post this. I know KDE allows this with their snapping (I'm also tired of some KDE related bugs so I switched to Cinnamon) and with Cinnamon while tiling works on regular windows, on this special window type (popout players in Firefox) it doesn't seem to work (changing the popout between monitors does seem to work however).

Let's say I have two monitors. Each has its own panel. Each monitor has a few programs open on it.

How can I get those programs to show only on their own panel?

In Plasma, this function is in "Task Manager Settings/Behavior" and it is called "Show only tasks: From current screen"

Is there any way I can make Compiz work on the latest Cinnamon update. The only that works currently is the wobbly window effect...

Hi. Is there a feature in the menu that allows you to see all user installed programs (not part of the default install) in a separate directory without having to go through the laborious process of using the menu editor? It would be so convenient to browse through all of these apps in an instant.

If not, is there a simple way to suggest this to a developer without becoming a GitHub user?

I am using arch Linux with the cinnamon desktop environment and I can’t change to dark mode. The option is completely greyed out.

Hi all,

I am working on my own little rice for cinnamon and in order to match the round corners on my desktop i want to make the corners of the app launcher also round, but i have not found a way to do so. Any tips?

Is there one?

Title explains it all. The cinnamon-settings application will not launch. Running "cinnamon-settings" in the terminal gives the following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 793, in <module>
    window = MainWindow()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 317, in __init__
    self.init_settings_overview()
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 325, in init_settings_overview
    self.load_python_modules()
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 494, in load_python_modules
    for module in map(__import__, to_import):
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_backgrounds.py", line 16, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 82, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: libimagequant.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

I have one machine where all of the themes are "dark" even the standard ones. This is a fedora 38 and no matter how I set the theme (see the ScreenShot. ) on an other machine that has the same installl and the same theme settings These are light.Both are Dell m4800 machines with 16gb ram and fedora 38 running the last updates. I have removed the ~/.themes/ dir on this machine and copied /usr/share/themes from the other machine to no avail.

Can someone point me in the right direction to resolve this without completely reinstalling the machine?

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So i tested this on windows as well as with pop!_os (my distro) DE and another DE, and only on cinnamon i'm observing this.

I'm on a german notebook and set up brazilian keyboard layout which, again, in the other contexts is working fine. But on Cinnamon, always one of the following keys will not work byitself, but will when shift is held down: minus/underline, closing square bracket/ closing curly bracket, backslash/vertical bar. As of this moment, it's the last of those which presents this problem. backslash won't appear, but when pressed with shift held down, will give a vertical bar |

I don't know actually if the problem was there from the installation moment or if it began when i started making attempts to remap the last of those keys to slash/question mark, which is also a necessity i need help with.

I tried using input-remapper, xev, but to no avail.

PC: HP Pavilion 15, pop!_OS 22.04 jammy, Cinnamon version 5.2.7

Already posted this in a few places and no one has been able to help, hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

For some reason my desktop has these lines around the borders and they won't go away. I've tried changing the resolution, restarting cinnamon, and restarting my pc but it's still like this. It's only like this on the desktop and not fullscreen programs. It also looked fine before this and only randomly happened a few days ago.

https://imgur.com/diXLXbY

Maybe the lines are a bit less noticeable in the picture but they're pretty prominent for me and it's annoying to look at.

I use Cinnamon as the DM on my Debian system. I often use the tiling keyboard shortcuts to quickly arrange windows on the desktop. However, I haven't been able to add a small gap between adjacent windows. I use a borderless terminal (Alacritty) and it becomes confusing when I have multiple adjacent terminal windows, so I'd like to have a small space between them.

1. Is the notion of a gap between windows supported by Muffin (AFAIU, the window manager that Cinnamon uses)? If so, how would I go about configuring such gap?

2. If not, how hard would it be to implement such a feature?

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This is what I see when I right-click and go to "Display Settings". How can I fix this?

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My installed packages:

cinnamon
cinnamon-control-center
cinnamon-control-center-common
cinnamon-control-center-lang
cinnamon-gschemas
cinnamon-gschemas-branding-openSUSE
cinnamon-lang
cinnamon-screensaver
cinnamon-screensaver-lang
cinnamon-session
cinnamon-session-lang
cinnamon-settings-daemon
cinnamon-settings-daemon-lang
libcinnamon-control-center1
libcinnamon-desktop-data
libcinnamon-desktop-data-branding-openSUSE
libcinnamon-desktop-lang
libcinnamon-desktop4
libcinnamon-menu-3-0
patterns-cinnamon-cinnamon
patterns-cinnamon-cinnamon_basis

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I’m on Debian with only cinnamon installed and I want to get an icon theme that’s not in the add/remove menu. I have the zip file with three themes, and for some reason I can never get them to work. I tried extracting to ~/.themes, /usr/share/themes, and ~/.local/share/themes. Nothing works. I tried rebooting even. Any help?

I gave Ubuntu Cinnamon a spin and I have got to say, its a solid option. It makes everything look really nice and its simple to use, even if your computer isnt super new. You can even personalize it with different colors and styles(Which can be done in many popular distros now), which is a fun touch. But you know deep down, I still have a preference for Linux Mint😌. The way Linux Mint handles Cinnamon just feels smoother to me, But that is just my take!

What do you guys think?

Ubuntu Cinnamon: A Better Way to Ubuntu