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In the power settings, “Shutdown immediately” can now be chosen for closed lid and critical battery power events


Cinnamon now activates the touchpad if no other pointing devices are present

Awesome!!!
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Bonjour,

I use now Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit. The kernel release is 4.4.0-053 generic.
The Cinnamon release is 3.6.7.

How do you upgrade the Cinnamon release? How do you do?
I should like assessing the Cinnamon 3.8.

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I like what I'm seeing so far Mint Cinnamon 19 beta. The DE is snappy indeed and very polished.
Cinnamon uses about 974mb ram looking at the system monitor, which is lower than Gnome on this machine.
Overall quite impressive. Great job guys!!!
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Leloup wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2018 3:51 pm Bonjour,

I use now Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit. The kernel release is 4.4.0-053 generic.
The Cinnamon release is 3.6.7.

How do you upgrade the Cinnamon release? How do you do?
I should like assessing the Cinnamon 3.8.

Regards,

Le Loup
From what I understand, Cinnamon will not be updated in 18.x until the entire version is updated to Mint 19 And, from comments made by Clem in the last day or so, that will not take place until the end of June. Everything now is Beta as far as Mint is concerned. Cinnamon 3.8 is available on Arch Linux
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@Leloup

Please adhere to the rules.

This section is for Releases & Announcements, not for troubleshooting or help.

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KBD47 wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:18 pm I like what I'm seeing so far Mint Cinnamon 19 beta. The DE is snappy indeed and very polished.
Cinnamon uses about 974mb ram looking at the system monitor, which is lower than Gnome on this machine.
Overall quite impressive. Great job guys!!!
I assume you're meaning the entire system is using that much memory? Cinnamon itself certainly shouldn't be.
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JosephM wrote: Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:20 am
KBD47 wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:18 pm I like what I'm seeing so far Mint Cinnamon 19 beta. The DE is snappy indeed and very polished.
Cinnamon uses about 974mb ram looking at the system monitor, which is lower than Gnome on this machine.
Overall quite impressive. Great job guys!!!
I assume you're meaning the entire system is using that much memory? Cinnamon itself certainly shouldn't be.
That's what I'm seeing on system monitor with no browser or any other apps running.
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KBD47 wrote: Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:14 am
JosephM wrote: Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:20 am
KBD47 wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:18 pm I like what I'm seeing so far Mint Cinnamon 19 beta. The DE is snappy indeed and very polished.
Cinnamon uses about 974mb ram looking at the system monitor, which is lower than Gnome on this machine.
Overall quite impressive. Great job guys!!!
I assume you're meaning the entire system is using that much memory? Cinnamon itself certainly shouldn't be.
That's what I'm seeing on system monitor with no browser or any other apps running.
Just the cinnamon process itself? Or is that the total memory use?
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JosephM wrote: Sat Jun 02, 2018 2:39 pm
Just the cinnamon process itself? Or is that the total memory use?
Total for the system with system monitor running.
Same reading with MATE is about 700 mb ram.
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Downloaded and intalled 19 Cinnamon last night working pretty good.
Gdebi will not install programs though when install is pushed it just crashes never asks for password. It will work if you start it with

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sudo gdebi 
from a terminal so must be some permissions thing. gksudo no longer works either.

But so far other than that it's fast and looks good.
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kc1di wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:51 am Downloaded and intalled 19 Cinnamon last night working pretty good.
Gdebi will not install programs though when install is pushed it just crashes never asks for password. It will work if you start it with

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sudo gdebi 
from a terminal so must be some permissions thing. gksudo no longer works either.

But so far other than that it's fast and looks good.
Today's update fixes the gdebi problem.
Easy tips : https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/ Pjotr's Great Linux projects page.
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kc1di wrote: Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:51 am .....stuff snipped. gksudo no longer works either.

But so far other than that it's fast and looks good.
Try a web search for "linux gksu deprecated". This is now quite old info. It is GONE.

Learn about "pkexec" for the new method of super user privileges.

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KBD47 wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:18 pmCinnamon uses about 974mb ram looking at the system monitor
Mine:
http://oi64.tinypic.com/29zy8tg.jpg

cinnamon + gnome-screenshot ,

just cinnamon 465 mb ,

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c++ wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:21 am Mine:
http://oi64.tinypic.com/29zy8tg.jpg

cinnamon + gnome-screenshot ,

just cinnamon 465 mb ,

LMDE.
That's excellent. I notice ram use in both Xfce and MATE 19 betas also went down from the first release of the betas. I'm looking forward to seeing what Cinnamon looks like on LMDE 3 at the end of next month
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