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Cinnamon 1.8 Desktop Adds In New Features
May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cinnamon 1.8 Desktop Adds In New Features
May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cinnamon, the popular GNOME Shell fork developed by the Linux Mint crew, has released a major update to their software stack…
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Cinnamon 1.8 Gets Its Own Control Center And Screensaver, Easier Spices Installation
May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cinnamon, the desktop environment used by default in Linux Mint, has reached version 1.8, getting its own Control Center, screensaver and more.
Cinnamon is a GNOME Shell fork which tries to offer the layout and customizability of GNOME 2: by default there’s a panel at the bottom (but optionally, you can also get one on top like in GNOME 2) that supports autohide, it supports applets, a classic system tray and more.
Let’s take a look at what’s new in the latest Cinnamon 1.8!
Cinnamon 1.8 video
Below you can watch a video which presents the most important changes in Cinnamon 1.8:
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Sorry for the fonts in the video, it’s an YouTube bug because the fonts look ok in my original video. The fonts don’t look like that when using Cinnamon.
What’s new in Cinnamon 1.8
Cinnamon 1.8 no longer uses gnome-session for fallback which has advantages such as the ability to restart Cinnamon after a crash or the use of a wrapper which allows Cinnamon to restart itself after potential crashes. This should also fix the issue with Cinnamon not working on some hardware which was actually capable of running it.
Cinnamon 1.8 comes with its own Control Center, so there’s no longer the need to use GNOME Control Center. This is especially useful if you have installed multiple desktop environments: features that are GNOME Shell or Unity specific don’t show up in Cinnamon Control Center, so you should now have a more clean, less confusing settings app.
In Cinnamon Settings you can find all the GNOME settings that also apply to Cinnamon as well as Cinnamon-specific settings such as applets, desklets, theme settings, windows behavior, hot corners setup, panel settings and more:
By default, Cinnamon Control Center displays only some of the system settings and for more advanced settings you must click the “Switch to Advanced Mode” button in the lower left corner.
The Cinnamon Screensaver about which we were telling you a while back, is available by default with Cinnamon 1.8. The screensaver is very simplistic, displaying the date and time on a shaded background and optionally, it can also display an away message:
The new Cinnamon release also introduces “Desklets” (desktop widgets), but since this is a new feature, there are only a few available for now:
The desklets can be set to snap to a desklets grid so they align nicely, with configurable grid width and users can also select if the desklets should use a border, border and header or no decoration at all.
Another interesting new feature in Cinnamon 1.8 is that you can install or update “spices” (which include applets, desklets, themes or extensions) directly from the desktop, via Cinnamon Control Center, so Cinnamon users no longer need to manually download and install them from http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com:
In my test, installing themes didn’t work for some reason, maybe because the available themes aren’t compatible with the latest Cinnamon 1.8 yet, but I was able to successfully install applets and desklets.
And finally, Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager, has received many improvements since the previous stable release that’s available in Linux Mint 14 (1.1.2), such as:
- buttons in the statusbar to easily hide the sidebar and switch between places and treeview (sidebar);
- option to hide the menu;
- collapsable sidebar categories;
- breadcrumbs;
- Sidebar Disk Indicators: indicators are displayed under each drive, displaying the free/used space;
- various fixes and more.
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| Nemo 1.8 |
See how to install Nemo file manager in Ubuntu.
Other changes:
- Cinnamon now automatically falls back to Software Rendering (previously known as Cinnamon 2D) when the full Cinnamon is not supported – a critical notification is displayed on startup when running Software Rendering – this usually happens because of a problem with the drivers or if the graphics card doesn’t support any acceleration;
- improved hot-corner configuration;
- new coverflow and timeline alt-tab;
- updated default applets, many fixes, etc.
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| Coverflow ATL-TAB style |
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| Timeline ALT-TAB style |
Bumpmaps, a feature that was supposed to be added in Cinnamon 1.8 didn’t make it unfortunately as it’s not yet fully ready.
Install Cinnamon 1.8 in Ubuntu
Cinnamon 1.8 will be available by default in Linux Mint 15 (Cinnamon Edition – RC should be out mid-may) and it should also be available in the “Romeo” repository for Linux Mint 13 and 14 soon.
Ubuntu Precise, Quantal, Raring and Saucy users can install the latest Cinnamon via PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamonOnce installed, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen.
For other Linux distributions, see the Cinnamon downloads page.
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Linux Mint 14 Special Edition DVD – Includes both 32-bit and 64-bit, and both MATE and Cinnamon!
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- Works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.
- Community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.
- Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.
- It’s safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware…etc).
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