Questions[cinnamon](ubuntu)

I wanted to change my desktop environment (DE) to cinnamon because it was way faster on my test computer.

I ran the command: apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment

Rebooted.

Changed the DE to Cinnamon.

Put my password in, and then it kicked me back into the greeter.

When I looked at the logs, I found this error message:

Mar  5 13:28:39 lab-linux-01 cinnamon-session[7991]: GLib-GIO-ERROR: t+0.01202s: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.file-sharing' does not contain a key named 'enabled'#012aborting...
Mar  5 13:28:39 lab-linux-01 kernel: [  588.104932] traps: cinnamon-sessio[7991] trap int3 ip:7fc180cd3ad1 sp:7fffb34390a0 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.5502.0[7fc180c82000+113000]

Googling around for this error message did not yield very much help.

I have a problem with thumbnails on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit system with Cinnamon 2.0.14 DE and Nemo 2.08.

I have tried removing the ~/.thumbnails directory but it is not working for me. This is very weird because when I open an image in Eye of GNOME, Nemo is creating thumbnails but other images doesn't have preview thumbnails as one can see in my screenshots below. I have changed the preview settings as show miniatures always.

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The Ubuntu Heads-Up Display (HUD) - you love it or you hate it. Personally I rather like a classic desktop, so I use Xfce or GNOME-fork Cinnamon, and I'd like to keep those menu's where they are.

But the HUD is pretty awesome when your menus are complex and you forgot where an option sits. This makes that search trick very interesting.

I know the HUD is Unity specific. I am looking for a HUD-like tool to complement the menu in shells other than Unity.

There is Appmenu Runner for KDE that does this. There is also appmenu-qt for KDE.

Problem with the above is that it uses KDE libs, and it only works for KDE apps.

This is Linux, there aught to be something like this for GNOME/GTK apps, right?

Looking for any tool that can search the menus. I already use(d) Synapse, Kupfer and GNOME Do, but those are simply app-launchers (with some tricks). Something like that would suffice if only they included searching the menus for the currently focused application.

The HUD allows users to activate menu items by typing part of the name. It uses a fuzzy search algorithm that will highlight partial matches. It can match menu items that are multiple layers deep in an application's menu hierarchy. The feature, which replaces traditional menu accelerators, is activated by pressing the alt key.

Similar questions:

• Is there a way to search a menu bar in Debian? - Unix.StackExchange
• How can I access menu bar items alike hud (unity)? - Unix.StackExchange
• HUD in other window managers (especially xmonad) - AskUbuntu

I was wondering if there is a way to make Cinnamon 1.4 the default environment upon logging in to Ubuntu 12.04. I can install Cinnamon 1.4 without any problems, but I am trying to run XRDP to log in from a Windows machine and would like it to start "Cinnamon session" instead of a Unity session by default.

The question is, How can I tell XRDP to use Cinnamon instead of Unity upon logging in?

XRDP seems to work much better than any VNC based servers.

I've been reading about the Cinnamon Desktop through this Q&A:

How do I install the Cinnamon Desktop?

Also I've been reading these theming questions:

1. Difference between GTK theme and GNOME shell theme?
2. How do I get and install more themes, icons, and pointers?

I'm trying to understand downloading & installing themes. I see that I can download GTK2 & GTK3 but I'm unsure I understand the differences.

I see there are themes such as Unity Themes, Gnome-Shell themes from websites such as Gnome-look.org

How do I apply these themes to Cinnamon? I'm new to Cinnamon so a beginners guide would be very useful.