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Hi, I have installed Linux Mint 13 (I had windows installed before it) I chose to install linux alongside windows, installation was succesfull, but my computer doesn't show an option to start linux mint when I boot my computer. Should I install grub manually?

Thanks already!

Does Cinnamon need 3D Acceleration?

Once compiled, can it be updated through our regular automated methods? Most probably, no. That's the usual trap of the tutorials that explain how to "make install" but don't tell anything about how you should keep the source tree intact (so you can "make uninstall" later) or ab...

First and foremost: I love how your post morphed from asking a question into being a tutorial. Thank you for your work! Noob's questions: Is following this guide and compiling Cinnamon better than just installing cinnamon and cinnamon-session? Once compiled, can it be updated through our regular au...

Solved: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=90721

For those interested, I made a guide on how to compile and run Cinnamon:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=90721

I struggled with this for almost a week now, and I don't want to happen that also to you guys, so here a little guide on how you should compile and run Cinnamon yourself. First, you will need git, most of you will already have this installed, but still execute the command: sudo apt-get install git N...

remoulder wrote:It does not need to be compiled, it is available in the mint 12 repositories, see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=89411.

I know it is, I just want to play with the code ...

Any guide? I'm struggling for a few days with this already ...

Reformat your E:\ to ext3, the default linux filesystem. Then install again.

Report bugs, check out Cinnamon as it still needs some improvements

The standard practice is to place configuration files in the home folder of the current user who's running the application. This way, preferences unique to that user are kept separate from others. Configuration file/directory names start with a period in order to hide them from normal listing by th...

Imagine that I'm
Programming and stuff, where in Linux do I save the config files and under what name?

When compiling it still says that the compile schemas can't be found, while it s listed under /usr/bin/ as glib-compile-schemas ...

No1 who can help me with that?

So Cinnamon is indeed installed but it's not showing up in the DE drop down list on the login screen (located on the right-hand side of the password field--looks like a gear I believe)? It did for me as soon as I installed it and logged out. I know, another stupid question but we have to eliminate ...

I managed to get all the package depencies, but now I get this error with ./configure: I tried re-installing glib and everything but nothing seems to work ...

Clem, can you check this please?

If necessary, I will lead the whole thing

When I run ./configure in the Cinnamon git clone, I get: configure: error: Package requirements (gio-2.0 >= 2.29.10 gio-unix-2.0 dbus-glib-1 libxml-2.0 gtk+-3.0 >= 3.0.0 folks >= 0.5.2 libmutter >= 1.0.0 gjs-internals-1.0 >= 1.29.18 libgnome-menu-3.0 gconf-2.0 gdk-x11-3.0 libsoup-2.4 clutter-x11-1.0...

2 issues to be solved and 1.1.3 will be released.

Found some info here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#building

As Cinnamon is forked from Gnome Shell, I am still looking for a way to implement this.