Inactive Cinnamon Desktop since upgrade. [SOLVED]

[zerocc]

Upgraded almost painlessly this morning. Just the one issue identified so far: no right click on the desktop, no desktop icons, unable to set wallpaper or desktop colour.
Any ideas?

EDIT: I can change the colours after all - but I can't set a gradient...

[darethehair]

Upgraded almost painlessly this morning. Just the one issue identified so far: no right click on the desktop, no desktop icons, unable to set wallpaper or desktop colour.
Any ideas?

EDIT: I can change the colours after all - but I can't set a gradient...

As for myself, with the latest LMDE 2 upgrade (and new Cinnamon), I have also noticed a few quirks:

- existing wallpaper folders work, but attempts to add other new ones just shows grayed-out image selections
- occasional sudden losses of desktop features i.e. minimal or invisible running app icons -- this forces me to 'reset' Cinnamon (ALT F2 + 'r')

[killer de bug]

Upgraded almost painlessly this morning. Just the one issue identified so far: no right click on the desktop, no desktop icons, unable to set wallpaper or desktop colour.

Most (or all) of these features are handled by Nemo. Therefore, please check if nemo is correctly installed and if it's running correctly.
Did you restart after the upgrade?

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apt update && apt install nemo

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nemo &

[zerocc]

Nemo running very happily, thank you. That was my first thought.

And yes - I have rebooted several times since.

[Biker]

Noticing the same behavior after the updates this morning. Right mouseclick on desktop provides a different menu now, where as before one could update/change the desktop backgrounds. This is no longer possible.

[zerocc]

Noticing the same behavior after the updates this morning. Right mouseclick on desktop provides a different menu now, where as before one could update/change the desktop backgrounds. This is no longer possible.

That's not the 'same' behaviour that I'm experiencing. I think what you're describing is a 'feature'.

[killer de bug]

Could you please both provide the output of

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apt policy cinnamon cinnamon-desktop-data cinnamon-desktop-environment nemo 

[zerocc]

Could you please both provide the output of

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apt policy cinnamon cinnamon-desktop-data cinnamon-desktop-environment nemo 

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cinnamon:
  Installed: 2.4.8+betsy
  Candidate: 2.4.8+betsy
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.8+betsy 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ betsy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.16-5 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
cinnamon-desktop-data:
  Installed: 2.4.2+betsy
  Candidate: 2.4.2+betsy
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.2+betsy 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ betsy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.3-3 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
cinnamon-desktop-environment:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.2.4
  Version table:
     2.2.4 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
nemo:
  Installed: 2.4.5+betsy
  Candidate: 2.4.5+betsy
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.5+betsy 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ betsy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.4-2 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

[zerocc]

So I installed cinnamon-desktop-environment - which got me a whole load of the old Gnome games package and some other stuff, but didn't cure the problem....

[killer de bug]

So I installed cinnamon-desktop-environment - which got me a whole load of the old Gnome games package and some other stuff, but didn't cure the problem....

You should remove this immediately. It's from an old version (Cinnamon 2.2 and you have Cinnamon 2.4)...

[simonbrown]

check settings, desktop, show desktop icons is on. You will have no right click menu etc. if it is turned off, as these are provided by nemo, and if the desktop icons are turned off then it will not be managing the desktop.

[zerocc]

Yep, Desktop Icons is set 'on'. I experimented with that already....

[zerocc]

You should remove this immediately. It's from an old version (Cinnamon 2.2 and you have Cinnamon 2.4)...

Yep. Sheepish face. All gone now....

[killer de bug]

I'm running our of ideas. Maybe you can install Cinnamon 2.6 and see if it solves your problems.

Cinnamon 2.6 is available in Romeo, the repo for unstable packages. It's a development version and therefore a few bugs are still present. Nevertheless, it's perfectly usable and already rocking solid.

[zerocc]

Thanks for your help. I may try that eventually....

[zerocc]

And no: the situation is exactly the same with 2.6. Ah, well...


EDIT: Ignore that - remembered to reboot and now everything is dandy!!! 2.6 FTW!

[simonbrown]

Do you have right click elsewhere ?

[zerocc]

Sorry - ignore my previous post. After rebooting everything is sorted! And 2.6 is looking great, btw....

[killer de bug]

Perfect! Good piece of news!