Cinnamon guide (replacement for gnome-shell)

[dd_wizard]

Originally Posted by spacin

weird again i dont have cinnamon in desktop

desktop >
gnome
gstreamer
ibus

what the heck?

That's what you see in dconf-editor. You need to install gconf-editor if it isn't already installed. Then click on "Configuration Editor" in the System menu. There you will find the window variables for cinnamon in desktop > cinnamon > windows. Everything else is in dconf-editor > desktop > org > cinamon.

dd_wizard

---------- Post added at 11:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 AM ----------

Originally Posted by bigflopper2

Quote:
Originally Posted by dd_wizard View Post
Here's a couple of screen shots of what I finally got with cinnamon and conky. Who needs a system monitor extension?

dd_wizard
where can I get the extension?

looks pretty nice, I need that part showing the download/upload speed...in gnome the extension is called netmonitor lite

It's not an extension, it's conky... It's in the fedora repo, and here's my ~/.conkyrc script for the panel:

# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
#
# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
#
# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
#
# Please see COPYING for details
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
# Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#

alignment top_middle
background yes
border_width 1
color0 88ffff
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
double_buffer yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
extra_newline no
gap_x 5
gap_y 5
maximum_width 1440
minimum_size 1440
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
own_window yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_hints below
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type panel
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
use_xft yes
xftfont Liberation Mono:size=10

TEXT
${goto 380}${color0}CPU:$color $cpu%\
${goto 460}${color0}CPU 0:$color ${hwmon temp 2}C\
${goto 560}${color0}CPU 1:$color ${hwmon temp 3}C\
${goto 660}${color0}RAM:$color $memperc%\
${goto 740}${color0}Swap:$color $swapperc%\
  ${color0}Down:$color ${downspeed wlan0}/s${color0}\
  Up: $color${upspeed wlan0}/s\
${alignr}${color0}${time %a}$color ${time %I:%M %p}

Things like maximum_width and minimum_size will need to be adjusted to your screen dimmensions. Also, I used ${goto y-pixel-location} instead of $alignc to reduce "jitter" as the field sizes change. The man page for conky is pretty comprehensive, and there are a lot of on-line guides for it.

EDIT: If you like to auto-hide the cinnamon panel, putting the conky panel behind it has an added advantage. The conky panel will block windows from encroaching on the cinnamon panel when you move or maximize them. So this combination is perfect for my preferred use case.

dd_wizard

[brunson]

For those with dual monitors, this may be useful if you lean that way:

gconftool-2 --set -t bool /desktop/cinnamon/windows/workspaces_only_on_primary false

[VernDog]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

File a bug report here and include a screenshot and state your running the latest git commit

https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamo...esc&state=open

Thanks. Someone all ready has:
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/174

[deanej]

Are there any known bugs with the weather extension? I've had it revert to "29 degrees, mostly cloudy" several times and had to change the translate setting to fix it each time.

[twopumpchump]

I fixed the Dark-Glass theme to work with ver. 1.1.3-6 Let me know if you see something I left out. I will try to update the rest this weekend.


https://github.com/twopumpchump/cinn...Glass/cinnamon

[deanej]

Thanks, that fixed the applications menu in that theme. But is there any fix for the ginormous buttons in the volume control panel menu? Actually, ALL the themes (except ChocoLotte) have that problem. And I can't figure out why, because there is nothing in the CSS to suggest that they should be different at all!

[twopumpchump]

Originally Posted by deanej

Thanks, that fixed the applications menu in that theme. But is there any fix for the ginormous buttons in the volume control panel menu? Actually, ALL the themes (except ChocoLotte) have that problem. And I can't figure out why, because there is nothing in the CSS to suggest that they should be different at all!

I fixed the volume control panel menu, look at my commit you will see the changes that have to be made.

.sound-volume-menu-item {

     padding: .4em 1.75em;

 }

 

sound-volume-menu-item StIcon {

     icon-size: 1.14em;

     padding-left: 8px;

 }

[deanej]

Looking at my CSS file that I downloaded a half hour ago those properties are identical to it, but it still displays weird there. I downloaded the file (overwriting the old one in my downloads folder), re-ran the test script to install the themes, set the theme in cinnamon-settings, and did a shell replacement. Actually, now that I look at it again, it's just the Rhythmbox stuff that's messed up.

[twopumpchump]

Originally Posted by deanej

Looking at my CSS file that I downloaded a half hour ago those properties are identical to it, but it still displays weird there. I downloaded the file (overwriting the old one in my downloads folder), re-ran the test script to install the themes, set the theme in cinnamon-settings, and did a shell replacement. Actually, now that I look at it again, it's just the Rhythmbox stuff that's messed up.

Maybe try logging out and back in? It works fine on my end....

[spacin]

Twohumpchump

I'm guessing your fix will work for Frost also ....


dd_wizard

Cool thx I'll give that a look when I get home.


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[twopumpchump]

Originally Posted by spacin

Twohumpchump

I'm guessing your fix will work for Frost also ....


dd_wizard

Cool thx I'll give that a look when I get home.


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Yes, it should work for all cinnamon themes, just make sure there arent any other entries for .volume...if so you need to edit them to .sound-volume If you have any trouble send me a pm I will help.

[deanej]

Originally Posted by twopumpchump

Maybe try logging out and back in? It works fine on my end....

It's the playback controls that only appear when Rhytmbox is open.

Also, I just noticed that the messages appear on top of the top bar and have black on black test.

[twopumpchump]

Originally Posted by deanej

It's the playback controls that only appear when Rhytmbox is open.

Also, I just noticed that the messages appear on top of the top bar and have black on black test.

Ahh...I see what you are saying about Rhythmbox. I will look into those things tomorrow, from now on it would help if you could post screenshots. I just uploaded ElentaryOS, I believe it will have the same problem with Rhythmbox but other than that should be fixed. Please report bugs at my github so we don't clutter this thread.

[oboedad55]

Originally Posted by dd_wizard

Here's a couple of screen shots of what I finally got with cinnamon and conky. Who needs a system monitor extension?

dd_wizard

How did you get the panel at the top?

Thanks!

[leigh123linux]

Update pushed, no major changes

The git update corrects a lot of the workspace overview issues.

[leigh@main_pc cinnamon-repo]$ rpm -q --changelog cinnamon
* Fri Jan 20 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.4-0.1.git39422de
- more menu tweaks
- bump version tag to 1.1.4 git
- add only-show-in=GNOME to settings desktop file
- update to latest git

* Thu Jan 19 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.3-6
- update to latest git

* Thu Jan 19 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.3-5
- change patch section (remove -b option)
- fix trash applet

* Thu Jan 19 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.3-4
- update git snapshot
- make changes for source changes, applets, settings and session added
- delete session files and use my own
- move settings from lib to usr (it had no libs)
- replace menu icon
- change description

* Wed Jan 18 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.3-3
- build git snapshot for pending 1.1.4 release
- add build requires muffin-devel

* Wed Jan 04 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.3-2
- add requires gnome-session
- clean up spec file ready for review

* Mon Jan 02 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.3-1
- update to version 1.1.3

* Sun Jan 01 2012 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.2-2
- fix firefox launchers

* Fri Dec 30 2011 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.2-1
- first build based on gnome-shell srpm
- add session files