by BBOSAK2143 » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:37 pm
Personally, I have never been able to get into Cinnamon since I first installed. Now I have more problems and will give this warning. Do yourselves a favor and don't try the Ubuntu desktop either! It trashes Unity. Even after resetting Unity, I can not get rid of Ubuntu desktop's ill effects. Am hoping one of the team of great developers can shed some light and get it straightened out through their advice! I figured since I now see someone else looking at Cinnamon will tell exactly what happened yesterday. I decided after seeing on the list of updates that Cinnamon 1.6 was included, I decided to give it a whirl. I had tried a few months ago after installing Ultimate, but it never came up successfully. It is intertwined with Gnome, so please don't try to uninstall either! Anyway, I thought maybe it just needs a new theme and will work? Nope, was not the case at all had to get into the apps folder click on panel and log out! I then figured, you know I never tried Ubuntu desktop, let's see how that thing looks! From there it went to hell!!!. I had also thought maybe it would give Cinnamon a kickstart! I logged out of Ubuntu and into Cinnamon. Cinnamon desktop came up for maybe 2 minutes at which time, the unwelcome Ubuntu desktop took over!!! Very pesty thing!!! Have spent hours trying to get all the effects working properly again(those of compiz and unity) but I have lost the nice VUE globe that comes up when desktop initiates. Otherwise compiz effects are all back, thankfully. I had to disengage Ubuntu Unity plugin in the compiz desktop settings. As soon as it is activated Ubuntu desktop comes back like a bad penny!!!! Am getting to think my major disadvantage of having the all in one motherboard is the cause!!!! Have tried just about everything including changing themes, turning off file manager, reloading window manager, resetting Unity and am pretty well coming up dry to get VUE working again! Still, I love this system and there is no other that works better especially with these lousy all in one boards! Am not going to buy one next time around! Am just hoping as all these techs on here are light years ahead of me, one of them can spare a few minutes and probably know exactly how to cure it! Maybe will also shed some light for those of us that would like to use CInnamon once in a while. For me would just be for the ole lady as it is closer looking to Windoze and would be easier for her to figure out. Think these effects also drive her a bit batty! Not as crazy and open-minded as I am!
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