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iLobster wrote:As I can see from your chat, people, cinnamon 1.3 is not workable yet
Because it's boring just sit and read your test logs maybe someone could provide from time to time cinnamon builds and snapshots for LMDE amd64?
Share your fun, I'm jealous

mockturtl wrote:

iLobster wrote:As I can see from your chat, people, cinnamon 1.3 is not workable yet
Because it's boring just sit and read your test logs maybe someone could provide from time to time cinnamon builds and snapshots for LMDE amd64?
Share your fun, I'm jealous

1.3 is working. What you see in that last exchange is only the brittle config interface. The gnome tools behave very poorly; any typo will crash the session. cinnamon-settings will replace them.

I'll maintain links in this thread as we get improvements, you can count on that.

1.3 is here. If you need to try 1.2 for some reason, that's here (and please report the bug/crash in this thread).

msm wrote:Grabbed the Cinnamuffin file from the link - thanks! How do I install the tar.gz file?

tar xvzf path/to/downloaded/file.tar.gz  # xvzf is "extract, verbose, gzipped, filename"

sudo dpkg -i path/to/new/directory/*.deb

mockturtl wrote: I'll maintain links in this thread as we get improvements, you can count on that.

1.3 is here. If you need to try 1.2 for some reason, that's here (and please report the bug/crash in this thread).

mockturtl wrote:

msm wrote:Grabbed the Cinnamuffin file from the link - thanks! How do I install the tar.gz file?

Decompress the archive: right-click --> Extract here, or

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tar xvzf path/to/downloaded/file.tar.gz  # xvzf is "extract, verbose, gzipped, filename"

That will create a folder. Then install all the .deb files:

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sudo dpkg -i path/to/new/directory/*.deb

mockturtl wrote:Cinnamon 1.3.1 Released

To upgrade from v1.3.0, you only need to install the cinnamon .deb file.

32-bit

64-bit

I found that the first time I used the new "Restore to default" button (cinnamon-settings --> Applets), the icons were a little messed up. When I restarted cinnamon (alt+F2, r), the desktop crashed (SFOD). No problems after the next login, though.

mockturtl wrote:

zerozero wrote:yeahh, was definitely a dconf syntax error, tried again yesterday to install your 1.3 build (not that much free time so for now i take the lazy way and
- at first it crashed
- after set the dconf entry to defaults i could login (to a blank panel again) but i couldn't run cinnamon-settings; if not the same the error is very similar to this one

Hm. I think that says cinnamon-settings is puking on one of its submenu icons.

Try this insertion at line 34:

/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py

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class SidePage:
    def __init__(self, name, icon, content_box):
        print name  # Add this line.  That's eight leading spaces, no tabs: python will throw a fit.
        self.name = name
        self.icon = icon
        self.content_box = content_box
        self.widgets = []

Now, from a terminal, run:

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/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py 2> /dev/null

(redirecting stderr to the black hole, to suppress all the Gtk-WARNINGs for "Theme parsing error" -- these are normal. It will also throw away your stack trace when the error happens, I guess. ).

You should see traced out the name of each submenu:

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Panel
Calendar
Overview
Themes
Effects
Applets
Extensions
Desktop
Windows
Fonts

That should tell us where the problem is, at least.

amadeu@amadeu:~$ /usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py 2> /dev/null
Panel
Trace/breakpoint trap

cinnamon-settings

(cinnamon-settings.py:6242): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-buttons.css:212:10: Expected valid border
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
  import gobject._gobject
Panel

(cinnamon-settings.py:6242): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:11:28: Expected an identifier

(cinnamon-settings.py:6242): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:11:28: Expected an identifier

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.cinnamon' does not contain a key named 'menu-hover-delay'
Trace/breakpoint trap

zerozero wrote:ok, recipe applied with your 1.3.1 amd64 build and the output is

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amadeu@amadeu:~$ /usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py 2> /dev/null
Panel
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GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.cinnamon' does not contain a key named 'menu-hover-delay'
Trace/breakpoint trap

$ grep -n 'menu-hover-delay' Cinnamon/data/org.cinnamon.gschema.xml
148:    <key type="i" name="menu-hover-delay">

glib-compile-schemas --dry-run /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas &&  # safety check, in case something is hosed
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

gsettings set org.cinnamon menu-hover-delay 0

mockturtl wrote:...and the only reason I know that much is because I was banging away on this all afternoon.
Cinnamon Weather (source)

GregE wrote: .... One function that is needed is a real calendar that can link to Evolution and Google Calendar like the Gnome one. Hopefully that is coming from upstream.

dcihon wrote:When I try to install the 1.3.1 debs I am getting messages like this one:
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libmuffin0 (>= 1.0.1)

zerozero wrote:
marathon,
all the deps required for installing or build cinnamon are available in debian;
make sure you have 2 things taken care:
- correct the pin priority so it all reads 700;
- specifically install libcairo2-dev from testing before start any build.

and I'm a very experienced Linux user