
The development of Cinnamon began as a reaction to the April 2011 release of GNOME 3 in which the conventional desktop metaphor of GNOME 2 was abandoned in favor of GNOME Shell.įollowing several attempts to extend GNOME 3 such that it would suit the Linux Mint design goals, the Mint developers forked several GNOME 3 components to build an independent desktop environment.
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So swapped the ssd, reinstalled Debian 9.8 from scratch, selected the Cinnamon Desktop on install, 1400 Packages later you are welcomed with a stylish Desktop full of animations.Ībout: “ Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for the X Window System that derives from GNOME 3 but follows traditional desktop metaphor conventions.Ĭinnamon is the principal desktop environment of the Linux Mint distribution and is available as an optional desktop for other Linux distributions and other Unix-like operating systems as well. So installed Debian Cinnamon Desktop for a ride. Having worked many many years with the outstanding minimalistic (Mac-like control menu) Gnome2 MATE, wanted to reinstall the laptop Lenovo t440 with Debian 9.8 and encrypted lvm partition. The fancy 3D Cube Workspace switching is done with the hotkey: Ctrl+Alt+Cursor+(Left|Right)

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