Issues with Cinnamon and Theme

[craig100]

Hi,

Totally new to Mint here.

Just installed Linux Mint 12 64 bit in Virtual Box on a 2 processor machine running Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. Installed latest VB Guest Additions then installed Cinnamon Desktop and Cinnamon Session. Rebooted and selected Cinnamon to log in, all ok after deactivating 3D Acceleration in VB, desktop now more like Gnome 2. Downloaded new Cinnamon theme from here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/cinn ... stom-theme. Can't see where to enable it? Also can't find where to activate the MintMenu. Also is it possible to have the top bar at the bottom like you could with Gnome 2?

Any help would be appreciated.

Crag

[cwwgateway]

Hi,

Totally new to Mint here.

Just installed Linux Mint 12 64 bit in Virtual Box on a 2 processor machine running Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. Installed latest VB Guest Additions then installed Cinnamon Desktop and Cinnamon Session. Rebooted and selected Cinnamon to log in, all ok after deactivating 3D Acceleration in VB, desktop now more like Gnome 2. Downloaded new Cinnamon theme from here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/cinn ... stom-theme. Can't see where to enable it? Also can't find where to activate the MintMenu. Also is it possible to have the top bar at the bottom like you could with Gnome 2?

Any help would be appreciated.

Crag

The "more like gnome 2" desktop is actually the gnome fallback mode, which you get if you don't have 3d acceleration. Cinnamon (and gnome shell) can't run without 3d acceleration. So, since you're not using cinnamon, cinnamon themes don't work. If you enable 3D acceleration, you can log into cinnamon. To enable a theme in cinnamon, push your mouse into the upper right hand corner (which opens the overview) and click the theme button, which is right next to the Window button, at the top middle-left.

[craig100]

If I enable 3D Acceleration then all I see when I log in is a totally black screen:( I'm using VB 4.1.8 and my video card is an NVidia GeForce 9600 GT which has 3d Accleration. I'm using the NVidia accelerated graphics driver marked as (Recommended) in the "Additional Drivers" dialogue in Ubuntu 10.10 x64.

Any one any idea why this isn't working or is it an issue for a VirtualBox forum do you think?

Craig

[cwwgateway]

If I enable 3D Acceleration then all I see when I log in is a totally black screen:( I'm using VB 4.1.8 and my video card is an NVidia GeForce 9600 GT which has 3d Accleration. I'm using the NVidia accelerated graphics driver marked as (Recommended) in the "Additional Drivers" dialogue in Ubuntu 10.10 x64.

Any one any idea why this isn't working or is it an issue for a VirtualBox forum do you think?

Craig

There was a thread where this happened: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=90670 (it was a little bit later in the thread). You might want to look at other threads that have titles like cinnamon help.

[craig100]

Thanks Cww.

I did a quick search before I posted but obviously not on decent criteria;)

Craig