Questions tagged [cinnamon]
Cinnamon is desktop environment which is a fork of GNOME Shell. It is derived from GNOME 3 but has a look and feel closer to GNOME 2.
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How can I tell whether Cinnamon is using software rendering? [duplicate]
I'm running Cinnamon on Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur. For the past several days - possibly after an apt-get dist-upgrade, my desktop has been very sluggish, and Cinnamon has been taking up a lot of the ...
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Black screen when opening help (F1) in Debian 12
I'm using Debian 12. When I press the F1 key for help, it gives me a black screen and the text is not visible. Is this a common issue, or is it specific to Debian 12? I've tried several desktops like ...
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After upgrading my Debian 11 system, Cinnamon freezes or shows lines on screen
Some weeks ago, I updated and upgraded my Debian 11 system. My desktop environment is Cinnamon. Now, very often, the entire desktop freezes or displays strange graphical artifacts (like lines or ...
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Mint 22 Xia 1 Cinnamon Minimizing Apps Disappear/Don't Show Up In Panel
Minimized applications keep running but disappear/don't show up in panel. How or where do I correct this? I have been through my preferences and looked in everything that I think may have the solution....
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How to show Cinnamon taskbar in full-screen applications
On my Cinnamon desktop, I have a taskbar at the top of the screen set to auto-hide. Is there a way to make it show up even when an application is in full-screen mode?
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Icon pack toggle switch problem (Mint cinnamon)
I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon. With any theme that I use, the toggle switch icons look like this picture I have tried running: sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/* sudo gtk-update-icon-...
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How can I force nemo to use pmount?
I am using fedora cinnamon and I need my PC to read DVDs. For some disks, the file manager can't mount them automatically. I know the problem isn't from the disks because I can read them by mount them ...
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Mouse pointer disappearing in Konsole (Linux Mint)
I've had Konsole installed on my Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon machine for about a year now and just about a week ago, the mouse cursor has been disappearing inside the window for whatever reason. You can ...
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Unexplained Issues with Keybindings and System Settings on Debian 12 Cinnamon
I’m running Debian 12 with the Cinnamon desktop environment, and recently, I’ve been experiencing some unexplained Keybinding Problem: Previously, I had set up the key combination Super + R to open ...
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Linux Mint Workspaces - ghost windows
Running Linux Mint 22.1 xia with cinnamon desktop. Workspaces have been working fine up until a couple of days ago. Now when I open any apps they appear on the screen in all workspaces but are only ...
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2025 Cinnamon desktop mouse lag, 100%CPU once an hour
I have had Mint on this machine for over 3/4 years now, but either due to an update/upgrade , the machine goes to 100% about once an hour, ( showing on the desktop mini) . Problem is , I can't figure ...
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Moving floating windows around with keyboard shortcuts
I'm currently using a Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon 6.2.9 installation that is a couple days old and I want to use some features I had on a previous tiling window manager with XFCE. In particular, I want to ...
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Linux Mint - should I install fonts in "~/.fonts" or "~/.local/share/fonts"?
This is for a user-level installation, not system-wide. My understanding is system-wide fonts go in /usr/share/fonts but I like to avoid making system wide changes whenever possible even though I'm ...
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NFS free space indication missing on Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon
I am running Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon with my DS923+ NAS mounted after login by clicking on it, full details here, only slightly changed since then, but the options and mount process are still the same ...
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Wrong notification system in KDE Plasma (again)
I'm using KDE Plasma on Suse Tumbleweed but the notifications are not working any more. When I try to configure the notifications using the Configuration app, I'm told that Notifications are ...
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