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How To Install Cinnamon 3 0 In Ubuntu 16 04 Or 15 10 Via PPA

How To Install Cinnamon 3 0 In Ubuntu 16 04 Or 15 10 Via PPA

• panel with a menu, launchers, window list, system tray;
• support for panel applets and desktop widgets (Desklets);
• supports desktop animations and transition effects;
• highly configurable: users can customize the panel (besides applets, the panel supports autohide and the panel layout can be changed: you can use one panel or two panels like the old GNOME 2 layout), easily change themes, customize desktop animations, hot corners, etc.;
• much more.

Changes in Cinnamon 3.0 include:

• window management improvements on tiling, mapping and unmapping windows, compositor’s window groups and tracking of full screen windows
• improved out of the box touchpad support (edge-scrolling and two-finger-scrolling can now be configured independently and are both enabled by default)
• new accessibility and sound settings (both rewritten as native cinnamon-settings modules)
• battery powered devices can be renamed
• different favorite applications can now be set for plain-text, documents and source code files
• panel launchers now include application actions
• animation effects are now enabled by default on dialogs and menus
• favorites and system options can now be disabled in the menu applet
• the photo-frame desklet now also scans subdirectories
• improved support for GTK 3.20, Spotify 0.27, Viber

Here are the new Cinnamon accessibility and sound settings:

Install Cinnamon 3.0 in Ubuntu 16.04 or 15.10 via PPA

Important: if you want to install Cinnamon in Ubuntu and youre using the WebUpd8 Nemo PPA, purge that PPA before proceeding. Also, dont add this PPA if you use Linux Mint.

The PPAs that uses to provide Cinnamon stable werent updated with the latest Cinnamon 3.0. I did find 2 PPAs with Cinnamon 3.0:

• Sunderland93s Cinnamon PPA (Ubuntu 16.04 only - its still in the process of being updated at the time Im writing this article)
• embrosyns Cinnamon PPA (for Ubuntu 16.04 and 15.10)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cinnamon blueberry

Once installed, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen:

Tweaks

sudo apt install numix-gtk-theme

• mint-themes (youll also need libreoffice-style-mint because mint-themes depends on it, as well as mint-x-icons and mint-themes-gtk3, both linked below)
• mint-themes-gtk3 (download the 3.18 version - its for GTK 3.18, available in Ubuntu 16.04)
• mint-y-theme
• mint-x-icons
• mint-y-icons
• cinnamon-themes

sudo dpkg -i ~/deb/*.deb

2. Shutdown fix

If you have this issue, fix it by using the following commands:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session settings-daemon-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session screensaver-uses-logind false

... and restart the session (logout or restart the system).

I should also mention that I didnt encounter this issue in Ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks to Kevin @ AskUbuntu for the fix!

How to revert the changes

A) Completely remove Cinnamon 3.0

Firstly remove the PPA:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/embrosyn-cinnamon*.list

Then, to completely remove Cinnamon, you can use the following command:

sudo apt purge cinnamon* libcinnamon* nemo* libnemo-extension1 cjs libcjs0e blueberry gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0 gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 libmuffin0 muffin-common

sudo apt autoremove

B) Purge the PPA

sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon

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