How to get cinnamon desktop?

[mandian]

Thanks to @crisb now Cinnamon is 3.2.8 is in repo!

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

Of note: The bug report (https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2102) still says ‘In Progress’.

So I run ‘urpmi cinnamon’ and 85 packages install. There are ‘Cinnamon’ and ‘Cinnamon (Software Rendering)’ entries now in sddm login page. If I select ‘Cinnamon’ I get a black, unresponsive desktop with 3 Icons in upper left corner for donate, join, and welcome. Also there is an error dialog box:

“Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently in Fallback Mode.”

Selecting ‘Cinnamon (Software Rendering)’ merely gets the black, unresponsive desktop with 3 Icons in upper left corner. So how do you get it to work? Here’s pastebin of packages installed.

https://pastebin.com/nx0BzhQi

[mandian]

@ben79

Of note: The bug report (Issues · OpenMandrivaAssociation/distribution · GitHub) still says ‘In Progress’.

I am aware it’s still in progress in fact many things are still broken, but I see the update and I just make a flying test

@ben79

“Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently in Fallback Mode.”

I don’t remember all modifications I did and I’ll wait for next iso before to perform a fresh install.

What’s in your ~/.xsession-errors?

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

@mandian

I don’t remember all modifications I did and I’ll wait for next iso before to perform a fresh install.

I think I’ll do the same with Cinnamon and Mate. Lets let crisb do his work first.

@mandian

What’s in your ~/.xsession-errors?

Oddly nothing, maybe because I have to Ctl>Alt>Delete out of Cinnamon to return to sddm login screen?

$ cat ~/.xsession-errors
cat: /home/ben79/.xsession-errors: No such file or directory

[rugyada]

@mandian

I don’t remember all modifications I did and I’ll wait for next iso before to perform a fresh install.

Same here. I’d rather wait for a new ISO and so a fresh install.
At worst, If things go for long I will try another install of the same ISO.

[mandian]

I tried with build 993 and I experienced the same as @ben79 so I analysed my ~/.xsession-errors and I discovered there is still a missing dependency. So I installed it
sudo urpmi lib64xfixes-gir4.0
and now Cinnamon is working again. Maybe there are some other missing packages because some other thinks, such as Cinnamon Control Center, don’t work.

[mandian]

@mandian

some other thinks, such as Cinnamon Control Center, don’t work

It’s a problem of python version: usr/bin/cinnamon-settings is a python3 script which calls usr/bin/cinnamon-settings which is a python2 script so python2-pexpect is needed too (cinnamon only requires python-pexpect)