[SOLVED] building Cinnamon (sid)

[iLobster]

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]

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]

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).

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

[mockturtl]

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

[iLobster]

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).

Thanks!
Will report if found any.

[msm]

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

Many thanks for your help!

[mockturtl]

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.

[diazepan11]

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.

About the amd64 version, if you can't extract it, remove the .gz extension

[zerozero]

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.

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
Trace/breakpoint trap


- lg is completely clean

- if i run cinnamon-settings through alt+f2 nothing happens

- if i run it in terminal i get this output

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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


again the same "Trace/breakpoint trap"

[mockturtl]

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
Trace/breakpoint trap


Okay, I guess it's keeling over when Calendar loads? But below is definitely a problem.

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


How'd that get messed up? The key is in there:

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

Make sure that file is copied into /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ (this should normally happen during the build process), and run

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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

As I understand it, that should rebuild the gobject structures for, uh, introspecting.

In my config, org.cinnamon has a menu-hover-delay of 0.

(Cool trick: instead of messing with dconf-editor, just use gsettings; you get tab completion.)

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gsettings set org.cinnamon menu-hover-delay 0

I hope that helps, it's not the same around here without ya.

[mockturtl]

...and the only reason I know that much is because I was banging away on this all afternoon.

Cinnamon Weather (source)

[iLobster]

1.3.1 installed, thanks. No errors so far, only crashed once, but I think it's because of my video driver, not cinnamon.

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

Doesn't work.
When I put files to local/cinnamon/extension folder "Weather" extension appears in menu, but there is no weather on desktop or panel. Terminal command fails (something not existed, didnt't remember what exactly)
After script "test" run is done, terminal commands work (city changed somewhere) but do nothing.

UPD: Ops, it's an applet, not an extension
Btw what is the difference?

UPD2: Applet appears on the panel but no weather still. Three dots and rounded arrow.
Look like there is no need for script -- applet appears in list if present in "applets" folder.

UPD3: It's working! Cinnamon restart (Alt-F2) helped. First impression -- need some space between blocks (city and its temperature/humidity/etc, today's weather and tomorrow).

[zerozero]

bhrr, i give up can't fix it, somehow in the upgrading process that menu-hover-delay got lost and i believe that is where the problem lays: if i take the menu from the enabled applets all's fine, as soon as i put it there, all crashes

but...

after spending a all day fighting with this, i decided that i wasn't ready to let cinnamon go so i bumped one lmde-incoming partition to testing and


of course everything is working fine (this new 1.3 series has a few interesting new features, the "everything is an applet" seems more stable [believe it or not i didn't touch once dconf-editor in this install]

if anyone's interested 20120222-64bit
(i just compiled cinnamon, i used mockturtl's muffins )

[GregE]

The Classic desktop layout ceased to function in the last builds of 1.2 and continues to be non-functional. You get top and bottom toolbars, but the bottom one is just a a blank bar. I have tried both ZZ's and Mock's builds - they are both the same.

My status area has jumped to the left, along with the Window List. It might be time to remove the cinnamon setting and start afresh.

Thanks for both your efforts. 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.

[marathon]

.... 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.

Agree about the integration with Google Calendar. Isn't upstream in this case Linux Mint though?

BTW I'm puzzled how you've managed to get Cinnamon 3.1 installed. I can't get it installed due to a missing library that isn't even available in Debian Sid at this moment and I'm not on Sid but Wheezy. Still I looked in the Sid & Experimental repositories and that Library version that's needed for 3.1 isn't available. It's the evolution sync lib if memory serves.

Cheers.

[zerozero]

Greg,
i don't know about the classic mode (don't really use it), but i remember seeing at github leigh123linux opening some issue(s) about it.

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 now i noticed that the dynamic workspaces are gone (you can set the number in dconf, not yet in cinnamon-settings but i believe that is coming soon) and the expo-like animation is like this

(ctrl+Alt+up key)

[dcihon]

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]

Dan,
extract the right architecture from mock's post here
in that newly created folder, right click, open in terminal and

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sudo dpkg -i *deb

(you should have 6 debs in there, let dpkg do is work and if you find a missing dep report back

[marathon]

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)

Is it just me or is this forum slow as molasses?! Damn get an e-mail list going, Please!

Well I never got that far; Still looking for 'libecal1.2-10 (>= 3.2.2)'

[marathon]

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.

Well I'm sorry to refute you but they aren't, and I'm a very experienced Linux user. An unsatisfied dependency when attempting to install Cinnamon 1.3.1 on vanilla Debian Wheezy is libecal1.2-10 (>= 3.2.2) which isn't available in any official Debian repository as of last night.