Install Cinnamon in Mate?

[frsu]

I have Mint 14 Mate installed.

Can I add Cinnamon via Software so I can choose for Mate or Cinnamon via the session chooser?

[nomko]

That's possible. However there's a big chance of mixing things together like applications especially developed for to run with MATE will ben visible under Cinnamon and visa versa.

If you really want to run Cinnamon, best to do is install Mint + the Cinnamon DE environment through a clean/fresh setup and not mixing it up with your MATE installation.

[TheDynamicHamza21]

If you install mint-meta cinnamon you will only get some duplicate entries but not a lot but if you install cinnamon you'll get a whole a lot duplicate entries and possible conflicting programs.

When I installed mint-meta cinnamon there was a conflict between nemo & Caja. Nemo hijacked my system placed itself as my default file manager. Same thing for my pdf reader Evince, two different versions of Evince and Gnome Evince placed itself as the default pdf reader instead of the Mate version. I can only imagine how installing the full cinnamon desktop would have done to my system.

It should run reasonably well if your system can handle it providing the quirks,annoyances I mentioned. It shouldn't damage your MATE desktop if things go wrong but you will have ensure you delete anything cinnamon if you decide to delete it later. When I uninstalled cinnamon using the software manager it didn't uninstall everything cinnamon installed. Thus it took a day or so deleting some applications like gedit,nemo,etc. I recommend using the package manager instead to uninstall if/when you decide uninstall cinnamon.

[frsu]

Thanks for the information. Will not do it.

[davidfromnewengland]

I installed Cinnamon in Mate, because Mate's software manager wouldn't open, just an unending splash window.
Cinnamon works fine...how can I un-install Mate Maya?