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 ?
Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode [Solved]
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Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode [Solved]
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Re: Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode
Right click the panel on an empty place -> trouble shooting -> reset Cinnamon to default.
Re: Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode
Thanks!!!!!
Some times the right answer is ridiculously simple.
So far I have not had a single crash of Cinnamon.
Some times the right answer is ridiculously simple.
So far I have not had a single crash of Cinnamon.
Re: Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode [Solved]
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.
Re: Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode [Solved]
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
Re: Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode [Solved]
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.
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.
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Re: Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode [Solved]
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:
save the file somewhere for later
To reset to defaults:
Note, cinnamon may freeze or crash doing this
To restore all your settings:
Again, cinnamon may freeze crash after this (recommend at least logging out/back in)
save the backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings file somewhere for later
To reset to defaults:
Note, cinnamon may freeze or crash doing this
To restore all your settings:
Again, cinnamon may freeze crash after this (recommend at least logging out/back in)
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
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backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings
To reset to defaults:
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dconf reset -f /org/cinnamon/
To restore all your settings:
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dconf load /org/cinnamon/ < backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings
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dconf dump /org/cinnamon/ > backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings
To reset to defaults:
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dconf reset -f /org/cinnamon/
To restore all your settings:
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dconf load /org/cinnamon/ < backup_of_my_cinnamon_settings