Hi folk, I have installed OpenMandriva Rome GNOME and then installed Cinnamon desktop but don’t work. So I have enabled cooker repository to try to fix the issue. All my efforts have been vain. The screen remain black and I have to reboot via command line. So I am trying to build and install each single component of Cinnamon from source code downloaded from Debian packages pages. Now I am able to login on the new desktop but nothing works. How can I fix all these issues?
Greetings, and welcome. Cinnamon is one of those package sets that needs testers and maintainers.
Please do not use packages from other distributions. Our versions are much newer. You are better off using what is in Cooker in a VM as it will be more recent.
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Give the KDE version a try. I have been using KDE for about a week and version 6 is great. I HATED Kde for the longest time due to the buggy mess version 4 was so I had not touched it in years.
I love Cinnamon but I will say as someone who uses Mint on some of my systems and donates to Mint that at this point with being behind on Wayland that Cinnamon is an answer looking for a question. When they started Cinnamon I could see it because everything at the time was a bad compromise. Now KDE is pretty good.
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I second that motion. After four solid years of Plasma 5 and 6, I can safely say that KDE Plasma 5 and 6 allow the user to modify the look and feel of just about anything. The Dolphin file manager is very powerful. Granted, Plasma 5 and 6 can be very intimidating at first because there are settings for pretty much everything. Don’t let that scare you. The user only needs to adjust the settings that he wants to adjust. If you don’t know how to adjust something, just check the KDE wiki or do a quick search on the Internet.
Then there is the appearance. Don’t like how the icons look? Or the desktop? There are themes, icons, wallpapers, cursors, and Kwin scripts on the kde.org site. It is possible to make it look and feel like Cinnamon, if that is your thing.
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Sorry, I already solved almost all issues. All work fine, only the “Mouse and Touchpad” applet don’t work yet. This is what I have done, by means meson for build and ninja for compile and install:
1)
cjs-115.0::
sudo dnf install mozjs115
2)
muffin-6.4.1::
sudo dnf reinstall muffin
3)
cinnamon-desktop-6.4.1
4)
xapp-2.8.7::
5)
python3-xapp-2.4.2::
6)
xdg-desktop-portal-git::
git checkout 1.20.3
7)
xdg-desktop-portal-xapp-git::
git checkout 1.1.0
8)
cinnamon-menus-git::
git checkout 6.4.0
9)
gnome-autoar-git::
git checkout 0.4.5
10)
cinnamon-settings-daemon-6.4.3::
11)
cinnamon-control-center-6.4.1::
12)
cinnamon-session-6.4.0::
13)
cinnamon-6.4.8::
sudo dnf install lib64EGL_mesa-devel
Solved also “Mouse and Touchpad” applet not working.
Need to edit this file:
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_mouse.py
accel_profiles = [
## [CDesktopEnums.PointerAccelProfile.DEFAULT.value_nick, _(“Device default”)],
## [CDesktopEnums.PointerAccelProfile.FLAT.value_nick, _(“Constant”)],
## [CDesktopEnums.PointerAccelProfile.ADAPTIVE.value_nick, _(“Adaptive”)]
["default", _("Device default")],
["flat", _("Flat")],
["adaptive", _("Adaptive")]
]
and
clickpad_list = [
## [CDesktopEnums.TouchpadClickMethod.DEFAULT.value_nick, _(“Default device behavior”)],
## [CDesktopEnums.TouchpadClickMethod.NONE.value_nick, _(“Disabled”)],
## [CDesktopEnums.TouchpadClickMethod.AREAS.value_nick, _(“Virtual button areas along bottom of touchpad”)],
## [CDesktopEnums.TouchpadClickMethod.FINGERS.value_nick, _(“Use multiple fingers for right and middle click”)]
["default", _("Default device behavior")],
["none", _("None")],
["areas", _("Left and right-handed areas")],
["fingers", _("Number of fingers")]
]
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great stuff
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