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Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/">Cinnamon</a> 2.0 has been released today featuring many bug fixes as well as some new features.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the release <a href="http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/">announcement</a>, with version 2.0, Cinnamon is no longer a frontend ontop of the GNOME desktop like Unity or GNOME Shell, but "<i>an entire desktop environment</i>". Cinnamon is still built on GNOME technologies and uses GTK, but "<i>it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed</i>" because it now communicates with its own backend services, libraries and daemons.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon 2.0" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93xPVz4y7CUU0nwUMF8H2rbyUEfXi_99oZKV0O9-0tAN5hpZBPqWpN21FAnc36LhsvCxfE1NcwhERFPcsbtUfL9jA9huCMz7fsMSutm9zTV0pPHDp6QQxGcmsH-iU8-TVCuq7-0GZm-0/s320/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Cinnamon 2.0:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">improved edge-tiling: </li><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tiled windows can be resized;</li><li>in addition to top, bottom, left and right, windows can now be tiled into the 4 corners of the screen;</li><li>a new feature called "HUD" was added: when dragging a window near a tiling zone, Cinnamon displays a hint so you know where the window will tile - see second screenshot below;</li></ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a new edge-snapping feature has been added - it's similar to edge-tiling, but there's a difference: maximized windows do not cover snapped windows. To snap a window, drag a window with your mouse towards an edge while pressing the Control key;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">configurable individual sound effects: you can configure sounds for events such as Cinnamon startup, switching workspace, closing, minimizing or maximizing windows and so on.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">replaced GNOME "User Accounts" with new Cinnamon "Users and Groups". Users can access and modify their own info via the Account Details module;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added an User Applet which can be used to shutdown, restart or suspend the system, turn off the notifications, access the account details or System Settings. Furthermore, the applet supports MDM and LightDM user switching and LightDM guest user session;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">cinnamon-bluetooth has replaced blueman;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">important performance improvements for full-screen apps.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with some of these changes:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New User Applet</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new "HUD" tiling feature (see the hint at the top) / window snapping OSD</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Users and Groups</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Sound Effects</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Some minor new features include: <br /><ul><li>sound applet: added support for SMPlayer and Tomahawk;</li><li>added snap OSD;</li><li>expo: middle click on window thumbnail now closes the window;</li><li>window-list improvements;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 Nemo screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager (forked from Nautilus) has also received some interesting improvements:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">two new extensions were added - nemo-preview (for previewing files, fork of GNOME Sushi), and nemo-media-columns (adds various info to the Nautilus list view);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in list view, columns are now re-orderable by simple drag and drop method, without having to open a separate dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in the List View, you can now right-click a column heading to add or remove visible columns quickly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">also in the List View, Nemo will try to avoid having a horizontal scroll bar by truncating the name column when necessary;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to always start in split-pane mode;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to ignore folder-specific metadata regarding zoom level, view type, and column layouts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Move/Copy To context menus - they now include a "Browse…" entry to pick your target folder, as well as options to include bookmarks and places in the menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">you can now turn file tooltips on or off in the different views;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is an additional menu item in the list-view column context menu, to temporarily disable auto-sorting of new or changed items.  By enabling this, new files are simply added to the bottom of the file list, and renamed items stay put, regardless of alphabetical or other sort criteria;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Open With dialog - you can now add custom mime-type handlers on the fly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved handling of the file operation progress dialog. You can now close the dialog entirely and it will turn into a dynamic icon in the system tray, showing overall progress with a circular icon.  From that icon you can get additional information via the tooltip, and you can click the icon to restore the full progress dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">middle-clicking a tab will now close it.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Getting Cinnamon 2.0</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon 2.0 will be included by default in the upcoming Linux Mint 16 "Petra" </b>(which should be released at the end of November) and then it <b>will be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 LTS</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04 or 12.10</b> (there are some packages that <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable/+packages">failed</a> to build for Ubuntu 12.04 so I suggest you wait until these are fixed!) users can install the latest stable Cinnamon by using the stable PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> in my test under Ubuntu 13.10, installing Cinnamon broke the Unity session (I was unable to log in to Unity until I removed Cinnamon; this didn't occur in Ubuntu 13.04) so use it at your own risk!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Add the PPA and install Cinnamon in Ubuntu using the following commands</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install cinnamon</code></pre>Then, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen session menu.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, see the Cinnamon <a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61">downloads page</a>.</div>

Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

Cinnamon 2.0 has been released today featuring many bug fixes as well as some new features. According to the release announcement , with ve...

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Y PPA Manager 0.9.9 Released With Support For Linux Mint 15 And Ubuntu 13.10 [Quick Update]

<div style="text-align: justify;">Quick update: today I've released <b>Y PPA Manager 0.9.9 with support for Linux Mint 15 Olivia as well as the latest Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander</b> (currently under development).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFrLWO2ZpZFjGYsj9busf5XuGs14rsZcN8fkUC2X6-z3YPyWZDzLGh19P-j3dBxUjRGo7-JTTyuWOqeV32_ZxnVxWE74034Sgzecu5lIE03qswhHMxQ_HBvEjJojVKEOYNGX7XBtrqQRf/s1600/y-ppa-manager.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFrLWO2ZpZFjGYsj9busf5XuGs14rsZcN8fkUC2X6-z3YPyWZDzLGh19P-j3dBxUjRGo7-JTTyuWOqeV32_ZxnVxWE74034Sgzecu5lIE03qswhHMxQ_HBvEjJojVKEOYNGX7XBtrqQRf/s320/y-ppa-manager.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with Y PPA Manager, this is a tool that lets you <b>easily add, remove or purge PPAs</b> as well as <b>search for packages in Launchpad PPAs</b>, a feature that should be very useful when you can't find a PPA for your favourite app on WebUpd8 or other similar websites. <b>Other features include:</b></div><a name='more'></a><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>list the packages available in a PPA added on your system;</li><li>download packages from PPAs without adding them;</li><li>PPAs backup / restore, along with all the PPA keys;</li><li>update single repositories using a command line tool (by the way, when you add a PPA using Y PPA Manager, it's updated without updating all the software sources) called "update-ppa" - usage example: "sudo update-ppa ppa:webupd8team/java";</li><li>some options that should help you re-enable the working PPAs when upgrading to a newer Ubuntu / Linux Mint version;</li><li>remove duplicate PPAs;</li><li>Unity quicklists / optional AppIndicator; </li><li>more.</li></ul><br />A complete list of features can be found on <a href="https://launchpad.net/y-ppa-manager">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Linux Mint 15 and Ubuntu 13.10 (useful even if you don't use Saucy: you can search Launchpad for a certain package to see if it's available in a PPA for Saucy) support are the only changes in this release. Because <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/linux-mint-15-olivia-available-for.html">Linux Mint 15</a> ships with a custom "add-apt-repository" command, it took a bit more to get Y PPA Manager to work with it, but all should be working now. Even though Linux Mint 15 ships with a new Software Sources app which lets you easily add PPAs and so on, you should still find Y PPA Manager useful for its PPA search feature, among others.</div><br /><b>You can submit feature requests or report bugs @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/y-ppa-manager/+filebug">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Y PPA Manager in Ubuntu or Linux Mint</h2><br /><b>To add the Y PPA Manager PPA and install the application in Ubuntu or Linux Mint, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager</code></pre>

Y PPA Manager 0.9.9 Released With Support For Linux Mint 15 And Ubuntu 13.10 [Quick Update]

Quick update: today I've released Y PPA Manager 0.9.9 with support for Linux Mint 15 Olivia as well as the latest Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Sal...

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Linux Mint 15 `Olivia` Available For Download [Screenshots Tour]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 "Olivia", based on <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-available-for-download.html">Ubuntu 13.04</a>, has been <a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366">released</a> today and is available, as usual, in two editions: MATE and Cinnamon. Let's take a look at what's new!</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILRlodF1dfOgjVPT4WddYehGiGr-0_GbX-zQ_esfjSmsvS3D50LXIfAyKi5thOHoBC7LQnLffgYv1raL_Rc9tMNvmKPxDNAbiKiRKD5Z9GNd9KxUJ0Tvaq20cWOsI69nBNF9DhmFzRfIO/s1600/linux-mint-15-welcome.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15" border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILRlodF1dfOgjVPT4WddYehGiGr-0_GbX-zQ_esfjSmsvS3D50LXIfAyKi5thOHoBC7LQnLffgYv1raL_Rc9tMNvmKPxDNAbiKiRKD5Z9GNd9KxUJ0Tvaq20cWOsI69nBNF9DhmFzRfIO/s320/linux-mint-15-welcome.png" title="Linux Mint 15" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 "Olivia"</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The features below are shared between the two main Linux Mint editions: Cinnamon and MATE.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Linux Mint 15 ships with a <b>new tool that allows you to manage the software sources, called MintSources</b> (shows up as "<b>Software Sources</b>" in the menu), replacing the old Software Sources (software-propreties-gtk) that was shared with Ubuntu:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MintSouces allows you to select the mirrors used for the software sources, with an included speed-test tool that lets you select the fastest mirror, easily enable optional components such as backports or unstable packages, enable source code repositories, <b>there's a PPAs tab</b> that lets you add, edit or remove PPAs, add additional repositories, manage authentication keys and so on. On the "Maintenance" tab you'll find a button to fix common APT problems like MergeList issue or purge residual configuration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Another new tool that's available in Linux Mint 15 is "MintDrivers"</b>, a driver manager (shows up as "<b>Driver Manager</b>" in the menu) that uses the same backend as the Ubuntu Software Sources (which integrates the driver manager now):</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mintdrivers.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mintdrivers_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Linux Mint 15, <b>MDM supports three types of greeters</b>: <b>a GTK greeter, a GDM greeter which supports the old GDM 2.20 themes and a new HTML (supports HTML5, CSS, Javascript and WebGL) greeter</b> which supports theming but since it's new, there are no themes available to download yet on websites such as Gnome-Look, though I'm sure many will be available soon. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-preferences.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-preferences_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Linux Mint 15 ships with some GDM as well as some HTML themes for MDM - here's the default MDM theme and some other MDM HTML themes included by default with Linux Mint 15:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The default Linux Mint 15 MDM greeter (HTML)<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_4_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the default MDM HTML themes there's a really nice animated WebGL theme which unfortunately I can't show you here since it would have required a video (and the theme is really slow in VirtualBox).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides these new features, MDM has also received many bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements.</div><br /><br /><b>Other changes shared between the two Linux Mint 15 editions:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>artwork improvements, including 12 new wallpapers, improved Mint-X theme to make GTK2 and GTK3 applications look more similar, updated Plymouth theme and more;</li><li>MintNanny has been ported to GTK+;</li><li>the Update Manager is now able to refresh the APT cache in user mode;</li><li>the Software Manager now uses automated pagination, supports searching in a certain category, etc.</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Software Manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Software Manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-update-manager.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-update-manager_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Update Manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Both Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" editions share most of the default applications (basically all except for the file manager and other desktop-especific components): Firefox 20.0 (but Firefox 21 is available as an update already), Thunderbird 17.0.6, LibreOffice 4.0.2, GIMP 2.8.4, gThumb 3.0.2, Transmission 2.77, Pidgin 2.10.7, VLC 2.0.6, Totem 3.6.3, Banshee 2.6.0, Tomboy 1.12.0, Brasero 3.6.1, Synaptic 0.80, Mint Backup 2.0.9, Xchat 2.8.8 and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, <b>since Linux Mint 15 is based on <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-available-for-download.html">Ubuntu 13.04</a></b>, it uses the same kernel: 3.8 - based on the upstream Linux Kernel 3.8.8, Xorg server 1.13.3 and Mesa 9.1.1.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon edition</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon edition</b> comes with the latest <b>Cinnamon 1.8</b>, released recently, which introduces some important changes, such as:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a <b>new Control Center</b>, especially created for Cinnamon;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a <b>new screensaver</b> created for Cinnamon which is very simplistic and has basically the same features as Gnome Screensaver, from which it was forked, except for an away message feature (display an away message on the lock screen);</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>desktop widgets</b> ("Desklets") support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>install or update "spices"</b> (applets, desklets, themes or extensions) directly <b>from the desktop</b>, via Cinnamon Control Center;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nemo</b>, the default Cinnamon file manager has received <b>a lot of improvements</b>, including: better Cinnamon integration, buttons in the statusbar to easily hide the sidebar, switch to treeview, etc., option to hide the menu, collapsable sidebar categories, breadcrumbs, sidebar disk space indicators and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon now automatically falls back to Software Rendering</b> (previously known as Cinnamon 2D) <b>when the full Cinnamon is not supported</b> - a critical notification is displayed on startup when running Software Rendering - this usually happens because of a problem with the drivers or if the graphics card doesn't support any acceleration;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">horizontal / vertical maximizing of windows;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more!</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots (note: there are no window shadows because the screenshots were taken in VirtualBox and Cinnamon used the software renderer):</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-applets-online.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15  Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-applets-online_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Online Cinnamon applets</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-desklets.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-desklets_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Desklets</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-nemo.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nemo file manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-screensaver.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-screensaver_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Screensaver</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Control Center</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings-advanced.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings-advanced_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Control Center (advanced)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>For more about Cinnamon 1.8, including a video and Ubuntu installation instructions, see our article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/cinnamon-18-gets-its-own-control-center.html">Cinnamon 1.8 Gets Its Own Control Center And Screensaver, Easier Spices Installation</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 MATE edition</h2><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint 15 MATE edition with mintMenu</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 MATE edition ships with MATE 1.6</b>, released a couple of months ago, which doesn't come with a lot of visible features but there are many under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes. Here are the Linux Mint 15 MATE highlights:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>some of the old technologies used by MATE have been replaced with newer ones</b>: mateconf has been replaced with gsettings, matecorba and matecomponent has been replaced with dbus, matevfs has been replaced with gio/gvfs and matenotify has been replaced with libnotify;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default file manager, has received support for new thumbnailers, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, improved sidebar and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">MPRIS v2 support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in case of a crash, mate-settings-daemon is now able to recover and it is automatically restarted by mate-session;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the MATE panel Window List now supports middle click to close windows and the Workspace Switcher has option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>new options in MATE Control Center to enable Macro compositing manager</b>, fast alt-tab and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the <b>Notification Daemon</b> now supports notifications that "never" expire" and there's a new <b>option to allow users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b>;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>mintDesktop and mintMenu have been migrated to the latest MATE 1.6</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.<b> </b></li></ul><br />Linux Mint 15 MATE edition screenshots:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_4_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-caja.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-caja_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caja, the default MATE file manager<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-compositing-manager.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-compositing-manager_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MATE Control Center<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center-notifications.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center-notifications_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New MATE notification options<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-desktop-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-desktop-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mintDesktop</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Read more about MATE 1.6 (and Ubuntu installation instructions) in the following article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/mate-16-released-install-it-in-ubuntu.html">MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Linux Mint 15</h2><br />Before downloading Linux Mint 15, make sure you read the <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia.php">known issues</a>!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php">Download Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon or MATE editions</a></b></div><br />

Linux Mint 15 `Olivia` Available For Download [Screenshots Tour]

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How To Install MDM 1.2.5 From Linux Mint 15 In Ubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;">MDM is the default Linux Mint display manager, forked from GDM 2.20, which means it supports the old GDM themes. <b>Linux Mint 15 will ship with MDM 1.2.5 </b>which has received <b>support for HTML greeters</b> (supports HTML5, CSS, Javascript and WebGL) and <b>if you want to install it in Ubuntu, you can use a PPA to install both MDM 1.2.5 as well as the default MDM themes</b>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the previous stable release, MDM has also received many under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes. For a complete feature list and more info on MDM, see its <a href="https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm">GitHub page</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDK3oqIiktwTYPly2aC20CVYujW4HOoLD_Iv9Qljg1AuGv0oIWrTeGPFogLswf4W-IgrkdgCjkg42b9xoU80lRvCqpUX37QsDZhcwFIKlGWI3Ta0_OThacI1omWnHcULenkiONyY4uS0P/s1600/mdm_htmltheme_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDK3oqIiktwTYPly2aC20CVYujW4HOoLD_Iv9Qljg1AuGv0oIWrTeGPFogLswf4W-IgrkdgCjkg42b9xoU80lRvCqpUX37QsDZhcwFIKlGWI3Ta0_OThacI1omWnHcULenkiONyY4uS0P/s320/mdm_htmltheme_1.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A MDM HTML theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Because the default MDM themes are Linux Mint branded, I've tweaked some of them to integrate better with Ubuntu, and renamed the package to "ubuntu-mdm-themes". But I'm no graphics designer so you may want to tweak them further - this can easily be done since the themes are mostly HTML / CSS, so look under <i>/usr/share/mdm/themes/</i> for GDM themes and in <i>/usr/share/mdm/html-themes/</i> for the new HTML themes and change them to suit your needs or create your own theme.</div><br />Here are some of the themes available by default in Linux Mint and in our PPA:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-htmltheme_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="MDM themes" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-htmltheme_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MDM HTML theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-htmltheme_3.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="MDM themes" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-htmltheme_3_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MDM HTML theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-gdmtheme_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="MDM themes" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-gdmtheme_1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MDM GDM theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-gdmtheme_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="MDM themes" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-gdmtheme_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MDM GDM theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-gdmtheme_3.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="MDM themes" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-gdmtheme_3_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MDM GDM theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The default themes include an animated WebGL theme called "Clouds (WebGL)" which looks great, but in my test, the animation was slow both in VirtualBox and on my laptop (running Nvidia Optimus) and I've read that it doesn't work at all for some users, so be careful if you select this theme. There are some other non-WebGL animated HTML themes included by default, which you'll discover for yourself once you install the latest MDM from Linux Mint 15, by using the instructions below.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MDM in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Important:</b></span> installing MDM will remove GDM (and GNOME Shell, since it depends on GDM - but this is only for Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04). That's because there are some conflicts between MDM and GDM. So if you're using GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04, do not install MDM.</div><br /><b>1. To install the latest MDM from Linux Mint 15 in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mdm ubuntu-mdm-themes</code></pre>During the installation, you'll be prompted to select the default display manager:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-configuration-term.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="mdm configuration" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-configuration-term_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />Select MDM here. Later on, if you want to switch to LightDM, GDM or some other display manager, see this article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html">How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> Once MDM has been installed, restart you computer. Until you restart the computer, MDM Setup (shows up as "Login Window" in Dash / the menu) won't show up. After restarting the computer, the default (kind of ugly, I know) MDM theme will be loaded - <b>very important</b>: the first time MDM starts, no session is selected so make sure you select one from the drop-down indicated in the screenshot below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-session-list.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="MDM session list" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdm-session-list_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> Then you can log in, launch MDM Setup (look for "Login Window" in Dash / the menu) and select the theme you want. From the "Style" drop-down you can select what kind of themes you want to use: GDM themes, HTML themes or GTK (there is only one GTK greeter available by default):</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mdmsetup.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Mint MDM setup" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mdmsetup_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />Select some theme and then log out to see it in action.

How To Install MDM 1.2.5 From Linux Mint 15 In Ubuntu

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Cinnamon 1.8 Gets Its Own Control Center And Screensaver, Easier Spices Installation

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWLiJsiqX2Nsg_5hErYFYeN8zJAtLn48E_fLnRuiAtOU7ftobEtEW6J6KDZpCutD1K7aEryEWX6is1q06CbUWbtwrpQtlwe7rvxdIgo6U7P78eQDxqORg69wU2O-EwSwXoYVJbmx82MGo/s1600/cinnamon-1.8.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWLiJsiqX2Nsg_5hErYFYeN8zJAtLn48E_fLnRuiAtOU7ftobEtEW6J6KDZpCutD1K7aEryEWX6is1q06CbUWbtwrpQtlwe7rvxdIgo6U7P78eQDxqORg69wU2O-EwSwXoYVJbmx82MGo/s320/cinnamon-1.8.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon">Cinnamon</a>, the desktop environment used by default in Linux Mint, has reached version 1.8, getting its own Control Center, screensaver and more.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Cinnamon is a GNOME Shell fork which tries to offer the layout and customizability of GNOME 2: by default there's a panel at the bottom (but optionally, you can also get one on top like in GNOME 2) that supports autohide, it supports applets, a classic system tray and more.</i><br /><br /><b>Let's take a look at what's new in the latest Cinnamon 1.8! </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>Cinnamon 1.8 video</h2><br />Below you can watch a video which presents the most important changes in Cinnamon 1.8:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZNjZH2r9Zos" width="480"></iframe><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNjZH2r9Zos">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br />Sorry for the fonts in the video, it's an YouTube bug because the fonts look ok in my original video. The fonts don't look like that when using Cinnamon.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>What's new in Cinnamon 1.8</h2><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Cinnamon 1.8 no longer uses gnome-session for fallback which has advantages such as the ability to restart Cinnamon after a crash or the use of a wrapper which allows Cinnamon to restart itself after potential crashes. This should also fix the issue with Cinnamon not working on some hardware which was actually capable of running it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon 1.8 comes with its own Control Center</b>, so there's no longer the need to use GNOME Control Center. This is especially useful if you have installed multiple desktop environments: features that are GNOME Shell or Unity specific don't show up in Cinnamon Control Center, so you should now have a more clean, less confusing settings app. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Cinnamon Settings you can find all the GNOME settings that also apply to Cinnamon as well as Cinnamon-specific settings such as applets, desklets, theme settings, windows behavior, hot corners setup, panel settings and more:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-system-settings.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon Control Center" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-system-settings_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">By default, Cinnamon Control Center displays only some of the system settings and for more advanced settings you must click the "Switch to Advanced Mode" button in the lower left corner.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Cinnamon Screensaver</b> about which we were telling you <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/work-started-on-cinnamon-screensaver.html">a while back</a>, is available by default with Cinnamon 1.8. The screensaver is very simplistic, displaying the date and time on a shaded background and optionally, it can also display an away message:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-screensaver.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon Screensaver" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-screensaver_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-screensaver-settings.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon screensaver settings" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-screensaver-settings_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Cinnamon release also introduces "<b>Desklets</b>" (<b>desktop widgets</b>), but since this is a new feature, there are only a few available for now:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-desklets.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon Desklets" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-desklets_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-desklets-settings.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon desklets settings" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-desklets-settings_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The desklets can be set to snap to a desklets grid so they align nicely, with configurable grid width and users can also select if the desklets should use a border, border and header or no decoration at all.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another interesting new feature in Cinnamon 1.8 is that you can <b>install or update "spices" (which include applets, desklets, themes or extensions) directly from the desktop</b>, via Cinnamon Control Center, so Cinnamon users no longer need to manually download and install them from  http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-applets-install-online.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon 1.8 applets install" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-applets-install-online_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test, installing themes didn't work for some reason, maybe because the available themes aren't compatible with the latest Cinnamon 1.8 yet, but I was able to successfully install applets and desklets.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, <b>Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager, has received many improvements </b>since the previous stable release that's available in Linux Mint 14 (1.1.2), such as:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">buttons in the statusbar to easily hide the sidebar and switch between places and treeview (sidebar);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">option to hide the menu;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">collapsable sidebar categories;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">breadcrumbs;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Sidebar Disk Indicators: indicators are displayed under each drive, displaying the free/used space;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">various fixes and more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-nemo.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 1.8 Nemo" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nemo 1.8</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><i><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-install-nemo-file-manager-in.html">See how to install Nemo file manager in Ubuntu</a>.</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Other changes:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Cinnamon now automatically falls back to Software Rendering (previously known as Cinnamon 2D) when the full Cinnamon is not supported - a critical notification is displayed on startup when running Software Rendering  - this usually happens because of a problem with the drivers or if the graphics card doesn't support any acceleration;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved hot-corner configuration;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new coverflow and timeline alt-tab;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">updated default applets, many fixes, etc.</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-hotcorners.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon hot-corner configuration" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-hotcorners_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-coverflow-alt-tab.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon coverflow alt-tab" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-coverflow-alt-tab_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coverflow ATL-TAB style</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-timeline-alt-tab.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon timeline alt-tab" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cinnamon-1.8-timeline-alt-tab_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Timeline ALT-TAB style</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/what-to-expect-in-linux-mint-15.htmlBumpmaps">Bumpmaps</a>, a feature that was supposed to be added in Cinnamon 1.8 didn't make it unfortunately as it's not yet fully ready.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Cinnamon 1.8 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon 1.8 will be available by default in Linux Mint 15</b> (Cinnamon Edition - RC should be out mid-may) and it should also be available in the <b>"Romeo" repository for Linux Mint 13 and 14 soon</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu Precise, Quantal, Raring and Saucy users can install the latest <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/alternative-cinnamon-ppa-for-ubuntu.html">Cinnamon via PPA</a>:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install cinnamon</code></pre>Once installed, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen.<br /><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, see the Cinnamon <a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61">downloads page</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/">cinnamon.linuxmint.com</a></i></div>

Cinnamon 1.8 Gets Its Own Control Center And Screensaver, Easier Spices Installation

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