Cinnamon is great on many things but seems for a desktop is a real hassle. I mean even when it does work right can be very annoying with window switching as have seen it just switch to a new window from a simple movement of the mouse! Yes disabling the corner dodad for window switching knocks off the headache but still remains as a so so desktop. One to show, with no go! Anyway to get to my point! With all the great desktops Ultimate 3.5 has am pretty much abandoning ship on looking at it! Am not an ace at this stuff, especially considering a simple misplacement of { in java can baffle me for close to an hour at times! Am just writing basic java stuff and Cinnamon is above that! Is like a first grader trying to read High School, Geometry! Still for anyone that might be interested in looking at it. Will post this error message that is still current as of today's updates:
(cinnamon:6382): St-WARNING **: percentage lengths not currently supported
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gtk_style_context_add_provider: assertion `GTK_IS_STYLE_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gtk_style_context_add_provider: assertion `GTK_IS_STYLE_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
JS LOG: About to start Cinnamon
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Error registering polkit authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject (polkit-error-quark 0)
JS LOG: Cinnamon started at Thu Nov 15 2012 08:10:31 GMT-0600 (CST)
JS LOG: network applet: Cannot find connection for active (or connection cannot be read)
(cinnamon:6382): St-WARNING **: percentage lengths not currently supported
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gtk_style_context_add_provider: assertion `GTK_IS_STYLE_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
JS LOG: network applet: Found connection for active
At present Cinnamon can only be induced by the famous command "cinnamon --replace" at which time will come up and leave the above message in the terminal. Might be something not quite mentioned right somewhere in some obscure file! I looked at one file and had 900 lines in it! Is something that is easier found by those with much more experience! For me most times I only use Gnome. I also downloaded the LXDE desktop and as usual in Ultimate 3.5 it runs perfect! As I have always suspected and believe, whatever error is with Cinnamon is caused by the assembly of it! I know it has nothing to do with Ultimate, since it has so many problems!!!! Am sure with a little bit of work on LXDE of XFCE one can eventually obtain most of the looks of Cinnamon and have a desktop that actually functions properly! I might be a little old-fashioned in my likes as to me KDE gets to me a bit after a while. Not much on the side to side stuff! I mean the desktop looks beautiful and is severely responsive, but the side to side just is not so much fun for me! Still in closing will say with Ultimate at least people get to see and use the different Linux desktops available. Most other distributions only have one or two desktops! Another reason Ultimate is so great! As of present, I don't really consider Cinnamon worthy of being on Ultimate! Is also like a 1st grader entering High School!