Cinnamon guide (replacement for gnome-shell) - Page 46

nonamedotc · #**676** 17th February 2013, 02:51 PM

Cinnamon is quite independant of KDE. It should work quite well with KDE. There should be no issues ...

***glennzo*** · #**677** 17th February 2013, 02:52 PM

Cinnamon is it's own desktop. It doesn't "work" with KDE. It is an alternative to KDE.

lutor · #**678** 17th February 2013, 02:55 PM

ok
i gona try

***bob*** · #**679** 17th February 2013, 02:56 PM

The first thing I'd do is to install yumex ("yum install yumex"), then after running it and checking for updates, select 'groups' and you should see Cinnamon desktop as one option. The picklist will give you what's to be installed, then simply 'select all' and have yumex handle it. Since it's gnome-based, expect quite a few packages.

lutor · #**680** 17th February 2013, 04:36 PM

I'm with fedora 18 cinannmon. I tried to install new themes and does not install, says not have administrator permissions. how can it be if my account was established as an administrator? or how do I get these permissions?

nonamedotc · #**681** 18th February 2013, 12:07 PM

How are you trying to install the themes? The easiest way I know of is to untar/unzip the theme files and move it to ~/.themes directory. If you reopen the cinnamon settings, you should see the themes.

Of course, the theme should have the proper directory structure ...

spacin · #**682** 24th March 2013, 11:24 PM

weird after a few updates my menu windows have started coming up all black.... might finally be time to upgrade to f18

spacin · #**683** 30th March 2013, 11:08 PM

and it still does it in cinnamon only

ashtonford · #**684** 30th March 2013, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

How are you trying to install the themes? The easiest way I know of is to untar/unzip the theme files and move it to ~/.themes directory. If you reopen the cinnamon settings, you should see the themes.

Of course, the theme should have the proper directory structure ...

it should just be a file named .themes is all nothing else open that file and put all of your cinnamon themes that you have downloaded and extracted. Then look into the themes under cinnamon settings.

nonamedotc · #**685** 31st March 2013, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashtonford

it should just be a file named .themes is all nothing else open that file and put all of your cinnamon themes that you have downloaded and extracted. Then look into the themes under cinnamon settings.

Nope. It should NOT be a file called .themes. It should be a directory called .themes and the actual theme should be described by cinnamon.css ....

at least as per my understanding.

ashtonford · #**686** 31st March 2013, 01:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Nope. It should NOT be a file called .themes. It should be a directory called .themes and the actual theme should be described by cinnamon.css ....

at least as per my understanding.

sorry to say you are wrong its a folder titled .themes not a directory.

***DBelton*** · #**687** 31st March 2013, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashtonford

sorry to say you are wrong its a folder titled .themes not a directory.

Ummmm... A folder is the same thing is a directory.

nonamedotc · #**688** 31st March 2013, 06:54 AM

Did not want to derail the thread - that's why did not reply to that comment about folder/directory.

dd_wizard · #**689** 2nd April 2013, 01:49 AM

In an attempt to totally derail the thread, folder is what microsoft calls a unix directory. So they're not really the same thing!

dd_wizard

ffiil · #**690** 30th April 2013, 01:43 PM

just to answer the guy's question above about cinnamon themes not being seen in cinnamon's theme selector.

once you've downloaded it, unzipped it then

sudo cp -r /home/you/Downloads/random-theme/ /usr/share/themes/

i've found that some themes don't have the right permissions so they don't run

when this happens i just use chmod to fix it.

sudo chmod 755 -R /usr/share/themes/random-theme

no idea if this is "best practice" but you will find that the themes are visible then!