Isn't Cinnamon supposed to work?

[The Alpha Gamer]

This is my stock Cinnamon install. It looks nothing like the screenshots, has no MintMenu, has a panel at the bottom and the top despite being set to bottom panel only mode and changing themes does nothing, it still looks exactly the same. What's going on and how do I fix it?

[z06gal]

I don't know what caused it but mine did that this past Thursday after updates so I removed everything having to do with Cinnamon and re-installed. It has worked flawlessly since

[The Alpha Gamer]

Ok so how do I do that?

[socrates_johnson]

Forgive me if this is way off base, but are you in some sort of fallback mode (i.e. without 3d acceleration)? Just a thought

[z06gal]

Ok so how do I do that?

Open synaptic package manager, type cinnamon in the search bar, and when you check the box one of the choices will be to remove everything which also removes configuration folders. After that, I restarted the computer and re-installed cinnamon via synaptic.

[esteban1uy]

This is my stock Cinnamon install. It looks nothing like the screenshots, has no MintMenu, has a panel at the bottom and the top despite being set to bottom panel only mode and changing themes does nothing, it still looks exactly the same. What's going on and how do I fix it?

Execute the following command at a terminal (once you have cinnamon installed) and post the results:

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cinnamon --replace

[The Alpha Gamer]

Ok so how do I do that?

Open synaptic package manager, type cinnamon in the search bar, and when you check the box one of the choices will be to remove everything which also removes configuration folders. After that, I restarted the computer and re-installed cinnamon via synaptic.

Done that, still the same

This is my stock Cinnamon install. It looks nothing like the screenshots, has no MintMenu, has a panel at the bottom and the top despite being set to bottom panel only mode and changing themes does nothing, it still looks exactly the same. What's going on and how do I fix it?

Execute the following command at a terminal (once you have cinnamon installed) and post the results:

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cinnamon --replace

OpenGL Warning: Failed to connect to host. Make sure 3D acceleration is enabled for this VM.
failed to create drawable

(cinnamon:1776): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

[esteban1uy]

Well, it looks like you don't have a 3D accelerated graphics card (so no Gnome-shell nor Cinnamon, just Mate or Gnome-classic).
Are you running Cinnamon in a VBox machine? If so, remember to enable 3D in your graphics settings.

[The Alpha Gamer]

Are you running Cinnamon in a VBox machine? If so, remember to enable 3D in your graphics settings.

Yeah I am, how do I do that?

Edit: Ok figured it out and done that, loaded Cinnamon, and now it has no panels and no window borders

[esteban1uy]

Are you running Cinnamon in a VBox machine? If so, remember to enable 3D in your graphics settings.

Yeah I am, how do I do that?

Edit: Ok figured it out and done that, loaded Cinnamon, and now it has no panels and no window borders

Great, so you have your Cinnamon desktop running.
Now open a terminal and execute the following command:

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cinnamon-settings

There you can choose your window borders, your icon theme, the applets and the cinnamon theme you want to use.
By the way, here is a good option if you want more applets, extensions and themes:http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=98316

[markymark12]

Phew, I was worried it was just me. I'll see your hand and raise you. Cinnamon has totally screwed up my desktop twice. It did this to me two days ago and I wiped the whole install and reinstalled linux mint. Then I installed cinnamon from the command line yesterday morning. Everything went well and I was supposed to logout and log back in. Simple, right? Well, when I logged out I had no option for a cinnamon desktop. Oh, and cinnamon doesn't show up anywhere on my system so I can't remove it but I have the same desktop as you. I can't find it in the software manager and can't install it from the terminal. I get an error message that basically tells me the package doesn't exist. What gives? I don't want to have to wipe my desktop again. This is day two that I'm trying to fix this botched cinnamon install. I susect the developers found a glitch and have taken it offline. Am I right?