Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode [Solved]

[marlar]

I recently upgraded from Mint 17.3 to 18.3. Everything has worked out fine except that Cinnamon now very often crashes to fallback mode, especially when I close windows.

It is most likely not a driver problem since another user account I created afterwards never crashes. So probably Cinnamon's settings has gone wrong.

Another thing I have noticed is that the other user account is more responsive. It is ready 1-2 seconds after login whereas my usual account takes 15 secs or so. And windows open and close faster in the other account.

I would like to delete Cinnamon's settings. When I search for cinnamon I find several folders. Where is Cinnamon's settings stored?

Or should I just run apt-get install --reinstall cinnamon ?

[Cosmo.]

Right click the panel on an empty place -> trouble shooting -> reset Cinnamon to default.

[marlar]

Thanks!!!!!

Some times the right answer is ridiculously simple.

So far I have not had a single crash of Cinnamon.

[Deuxis]

How can one do this if Cinnamon crashes *every* time and there's no panel one can click on? I'm fairly sure it's some settings' or cache's fault since it started when I restarted NetworkManager.service while Cinnamon was running.

[dcardinale]

How can one do this if Cinnamon crashes *every* time and there's no panel one can click on? I'm fairly sure it's some settings' or cache's fault since it started when I restarted NetworkManager.service while Cinnamon was running.

I am having the same issue and I am at a loss as to where to click on a panel as it falls back to mate in 18.3.
Dan

[mrdanne]

Hi,

Just had the same issue after updated kernel and Mesa. My solution was to change the display driver to another, in my case an open source version, and back to Nvidia again.

[Osmair Coelho]

I followed this site and worked for me perfect

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/w ... gs-(dconf)


To backup:

From a terminal, run:

To backup:

From a terminal, run:

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dconf dump /org/cinnamon/ > backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings

save the

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 backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings

file somewhere for later

To reset to defaults:

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dconf reset -f /org/cinnamon/

Note, cinnamon may freeze or crash doing this

To restore all your settings:

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dconf load /org/cinnamon/ < backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings

Again, cinnamon may freeze crash after this (recommend at least logging out/back in)

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dconf dump /org/cinnamon/ > backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings

save the backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings file somewhere for later

To reset to defaults:

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dconf reset -f /org/cinnamon/

Note, cinnamon may freeze or crash doing this

To restore all your settings:

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dconf load /org/cinnamon/ < backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings

Again, cinnamon may freeze crash after this (recommend at least logging out/back in)