cinnamon 2.2

roelof · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 488

Hello

Does anyone know if Cinnamon 2.2 is avaible in Gentoo.
And if so, can I have this without systemd?

Roelof

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany

No, Cinnamon 2.2 seems not to be available.
There's Cinnamon 2.0.12 in the sabayon overlay.
As far as I know, you can have Cinnamon without sysd.
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roelof · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 488

Hello,

Maybe I can join the gnome team as a apprentacice and help them with cinnamon.

Roelof

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 6:53 pm Post subject:

Since cinnamon uses gnome 3, I would think that you would need systemd as gnome 3 requires it.

I suppose it depends on exactly how much of the gnome tree you are building.
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 12:33 am Post subject:

shadywack · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 31

Here's where they're presently at:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487678

You can go here

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7527566.html

This gives you a really good guide to try out Cinnamon 2.0 from the Sabayon overlay.

As far as I know, the devs just haven't gotten around to it yet as they're probably bogged down on Gnome 3.12 stuff in the gnome overlay.

Given that Cinnamon 2.2 depends on gtk 3.10, however, this looks like a great time to look into it if any of the devs are interested in pursuing that work. As always, I appreciate the devs and their time. If it takes a while to get to Cinnamon it's not a big deal, but there are a few of us who would love to try it out as it seems to be getting more proliferated

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If any devs are also doing any Gentoo work for Cinnamon in an overlay or are considering an overlay I would be happy to try out any ebuilds there and help with any bugs.

shadywack · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 31

FYI for anyone still tracking this,

Sabayon has added Cinnamon 2.2 into their gentoo overlay.

http://gpo.zugaina.org/gnome-extra/cinnamon/ChangeLog

shadywack · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 31

Thanks Tetromino

https://packages.gentoo.org/category/gnome-extra

tetromino · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 215

Cinnamon 2.2 is now in portage and unmasked. Can certainly be installed in parallel with gnome-3.10. Can also work without gnome. I am not quite sure about compatibility with gnome-3.12 (you might run into a few issues with the >=upower-0.99 upgrade). If you find bugs, please report them in bugzilla.

shadywack · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 31

wrc1944 · Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 1:55 pm Post subject:

On a 32 bit Gentoo ~x86 non-systemd box, i used to run Gnome and Cinnamon, but had to remove them both when gnome required systemd (too much trouble to mess with the complications of trying to keep Cinnamon without gnome/systemd, as my main DE has always been KDE).

However, I did like to keep Cinnamon, and do have a Mint partition on this box, among several other distros.

Was pleasantly surprised to see Cinnamon reappear in today's emerge -uDN @ world (along with kde-4.13.1).

wrc1944 · Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 3:28 pm Post subject:

Hmmmm... My emerge -uDN @world didn't work for Cinnamon, so i did it afterwards, and got the following, which obviously is more correct, with few gnome packages.

However, can i get rid of the bluetooth USE flag as I don't use any such devices on this system?

Yamakuzure · Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 10:28 am Post subject:

Yamakuzure · Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 10:50 am Post subject:

There seems to be something wrong with the ebuilds:

wrc1944 · Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 1:44 pm Post subject:

Yamakuzure,
Thanks for the reply, however I knew how to get rid of the flag, I was asking CAN I get rid of it without other problems creeping in. IIRC, bluetooth was or is a dep of a few other packages.

All the packages I posted above emerged OK, Cinnamon shows up in KDM, but the normal GUI desktop immediately crashes at startup, but I can open a gnome-terminal and issue a halt command to reboot and get back to a KDM login screen. Emerge didn't complain of any missing deps, USE flags, etc.

I haven't investigated much as yet, but it appears Cinnamon might be actually running, but no DE is visible.

I share your feelings about networkmanager (at least on Gentoo). I've used wpa_supplicant GUI for years now with no problems.

Currently I'm installing Cinnamon on another identical Gentoo install on this box, but it uses systemd (wanted to get some systemd experience with gentoo). If my booting to Cinnamon problems don't appear, I'll suspect and look for a difference is this supposedly identical Gentoo system that uses systemd instead of RC. Either way, I'll post back.

Are you by chance on systemd, and does your Cinnamon DE actually boot OK, notwithstanding the audio complications?

UPDATE: OK- It's a little better on the systemd Gentoo partition. Cinnamon crashes when i login, but goes into "fallback mode" if you select "no restart cinnamon" in the dialog box (Black screen, with 7 icons, only one is normal (Chromium, which is functional), the others (generic white icons) all crash on trying to open them, except Leafpad, which works.

The Chromium window works normally, wireless is up, but the browser window is frozen in place on the black desktop. No panel, or menus, but right-click seems to have a few functions like created new doc or folder, but no application menus.

Any clues as to my problems, or what causes cinnamon to only login to fallback mode? I'm obviously not that experienced with Cinnamon.
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binbash · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

wrc1944 · Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:37 pm Post subject:

binbash,
Thanks much for the tip! That points me in the right direction, and I have a partially functioning Cinnamon DE.

However, it still seems to be missing a few things, like still having a black desktop background. Some default themes are installed, but will not display. I now have a menu, and can open most apps, but some Cinnamon related things don't seem to be fully functional. Desktop icons are still generic, and control-center doesn't have full functions. All the kde apps and other non-cinnamon relater stuff open and work normally.

I'm looking at the cinnamon ebuild to see if I'm missing deps, but so far i have the few that I've looked at. Here's a list of my gnome-extra packages:

binbash · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 16