Ubuntu 17 desklets free#

When running Cinnamon from cinnamon -replace in terminal, I would get on only those instances where the panel and hot corner were unresponsive references to a line 823 in /usr/share/ cinnamon/ js/ui/layout. js with a blank (empty) file, and deleted /usr/share/ cinnamon/ desklets entirely and the problem has yet to return. I replaced /usr/share/ cinnamon/ js/ui/desklet. Re-updated to 1.7.4, logged out and back in, and the panel freezes were back. I clicked on it, clicked on 'remove this desklet' and it disappeared. Rolling back to version 1.7.1 DID help-and displayed a 'system settings' desklet I had never seen before. Purging Cinnamon from a gnome-shell desktop and reinstalling did not help, nor did removing all non-default applets. I wasn't too worried about it-except from then on, the panel would on restarting cinnamon about half the time become unresponsive to the mouse, and the hot corner also disabled. On my main system, I had once tried out of curiosity to enable desklets from system settings, only to have them not display.

Ubuntu 17 desklets free#

#WHERE ARE DESKLETS IN MINIT17.3 FREE#Ĭinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for the X Window System that derives from GNOME 3 but follows traditional desktop metaphor conventions.I am running cinnamon_ 1.7.4+olivia in three systems converted from Ubuntu Raring. Cinnamon is the principal desktop environment of the Linux Mint distribution and is available as an optional desktop for other Linux distributions and other Unix-like operating systems as well. The development of Cinnamon began as a reaction to the April 2011 release of GNOME 3 in which the conventional desktop metaphor of GNOME 2 was abandoned in favor of GNOME Shell. Following several attempts to extend GNOME 3 such that it would suit the Linux Mint design goals, the Mint developers forked several GNOME 3 components to build an independent desktop environment. Separation from GNOME was completed in Cinnamon 2.0, which was released in October 2013. Applets and desklets are no longer compatible with GNOME 3.Īs the distinguishing factor of Linux Mint, Cinnamon has generally received favorable coverage by the press, in particular for its ease of use and gentle learning curve. With respect to its conservative design model, Cinnamon is similar to the Xfce and GNOME 2 ( MATE and GNOME Flashback) desktop environments. Like several other desktop environments based on GNOME, including Canonical's Unity, Cinnamon was a product of dissatisfaction with GNOME team's abandonment of a traditional desktop experience in April 2011.

GNOME 2) had included the traditional desktop metaphor, but in GNOME 3 this was replaced with GNOME Shell, which lacked a taskbar-like panel and other basic features of a conventional desktop. The elimination of these elementary features was unacceptable to the developers of distributions such as Mint and Ubuntu, which are addressed to users who want interfaces that they would immediately be comfortable with. To overcome these differences, the Linux Mint team initially set out to develop extensions for the GNOME Shell to replace the abandoned features. The results of this effort were the 'Mint GNOME Shell Extensions' (MGSE). Meanwhile, the MATE desktop environment had also been forked from GNOME 2. Linux Mint 12, released in November 2011, subsequently included both, thereby giving users a choice of either GNOME 3-with-MGSE or a traditional GNOME 2 desktop. However, even with MGSE, GNOME 3 was still largely missing the comforts of GNOME 2 and was not well received by the user community. At the time, some of the missing features could not be replaced by extensions, and it seemed that extensions would not be viable in the long run.

Moreover, the GNOME developers were not amenable to the needs of the Mint developers. To give the Mint developers finer control over the development process, GNOME Shell was forked as 'Project Cinnamon' in January 2012.