How to get cinnamon desktop?

rugyada · April 17, 2017, 4:33pm

[ruru@omlx-946 ~]$ cinnamon-settings
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 41, in <module>
    modules = map(__import__, mod_files)
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_effects.py", line 4, in <module>
    import windowEffects
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/windowEffects.py", line 2, in <module>
    import cairo
ImportError: No module named cairo

And does nothing…

I think that I’m missing some packages that you have and I don’t.

mandian · April 17, 2017, 4:37pm

You may try to install python2-cairo

rugyada · April 17, 2017, 4:42pm

Yessss !

mandian · April 17, 2017, 4:45pm

Actually MATE works a bit better

mandian · April 17, 2017, 4:53pm

Also both Cinnamon and MATE are ugly because default theme (Adwaita) is actually broken.

rugyada · April 17, 2017, 4:55pm

Ok thanks.
Will try… in a future

For now I think I give up here, unless/until devs believe worth of fixing.

rugyada · April 17, 2017, 5:02pm

Yep, this Adwaita error is recurring from time to time in console.

rugyada · April 17, 2017, 7:32pm

Well, I am very curious so installed MATE just for fun

Not that bad

mandian · April 19, 2017, 8:27pm

Well, old GNOME2 fashion style.

ben79 · April 20, 2017, 1:48am

How are Y’all getting past this:

Installation failed:
        file /usr/bin/wnck-urgency-monitor from install of libwnck3-3.14.0-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libwnck-2.31.0-12.x86_64
        file /usr/bin/wnckprop from install of libwnck3-3.14.0-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libwnck-2.31.0-12.x86_64

?

Edit: I --allow-force it. Hope I don’t regret.

ben79 · April 20, 2017, 2:18am

I missed something. How are Y’all launching Mate desktop? I’m using from failsafe terminal ‘mate-session’.

Edit: And Cinnamon. I’m seem not hitting on all cylinders with either one somehow…
For Cinnamon I’m using in failsafe terminal ‘cinnamon --replace &’.

rugyada · April 20, 2017, 6:49am

I didn’t get your error.

$ rpm -qa|grep libwnck3
libwnck3-3.14.0-1-omv2015.0.x86_64

With @mandian’s suggestion here.
This time worked. Replace lxqt/cinnamon with mate.

ben79 · April 21, 2017, 1:17am

Hmmm… I make in ‘/usr/share/xsessions’ the file ‘cinnamon.desktop’ and put in this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=cinnamon
TryExec=cinnamon-session
Name=Cinnamon Desktop
Comment=Lightweight GTK Desktop

Exec= could also be ‘cinnamon2d’ don’t know yet which is correct or better or if they are same.
And Lo and Behold Cinnamon opens from sddm menu like any other desktop.
Don’t know what to think of it yet but it seems working. I’m posting this while in Cinnamon.

ben79 · April 21, 2017, 1:27am

For better or whatever I created another post for Mate Desktop as Y’all can see.

ben79 · April 21, 2017, 1:36am

Cinnamon Desktop. As you can see I’m not smart enough to give my Cinnamon Desktop a background…

rugyada · April 21, 2017, 7:58am

Seems working here too now.
I wonder if the reason could be some packages installed while installing mate?

Neither do I
I mean the tool is there, but doesn’t work

mandian · April 21, 2017, 2:30pm

It works here too, but I can’t logout.

mandian · April 21, 2017, 2:35pm

I tried this one which is similar to Fedora ones:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=cinnamon-session-cinnamon
TryExec=/usr/bin/cinnamon
Name=Cinnamon Desktop
Comment=Lightweight GTK Desktop

but it fails due to the missing package nemo.

rugyada · April 21, 2017, 3:02pm

Confirmed

PS>
Yes, I noticed that looks like there isn’t its own Cinnamon file manager. Dolphin not even shows up in the menu, the only one available is PCManFm

ben79 · April 21, 2017, 3:49pm

Maybe so. I installed Cinnamon on another computer and this doesn’t work so far with that method of launching.

Edit: Which means whomever is maintainer of Cinnamon needs to sharpen up the dependency list.

Also who is maintainer of Cinnamon? I see crisb has built some recent packages but is he really the maintainer?