Installing Cinnamon desktop

[daunk]

Hello,

I’m trying to get Cinnamon to run on a newly installed openSUSE Tumbleweed system that was installed with XFCE.
I’ve installed Cinnamon via zypper -t pattern cinnamon.
However, when I select Cinnamon at the display manager and login, I am met by a green screen for a few seconds, which then turns black and then nothing more ever happens.
I can left click to make the selection rectangle appear, and I can right click to open the desktop menu.
But there is no panel and I can’t really do anything.
I installed Tumbleweed on a VM, and the exact same thing is happening.

Does anyone know what’s going on here?

[hui]

There are several threads…

Cinnamon Desktop

Cinnamon Desktop has been broken for some time now. No display found just blank screen. Can open terminal and cinnamon settings but cannot get desktop to show. I really don’t care to get to technical but this is on six different laptops. XFCE works fine just cannot get Cinnamon up. Wondering if there is any time frame when someone will look into this.

Cinnamon Task Bar not appearing

I have a system with kde plasma installed and I installed cinnamon to try it out but when I log out of kde and into cinnamon I have just a desktop and right click options. There is no task bar or anything. I installed it with sudo zypper in cinnamon then I tried sudo zypper in -t pattern cinnamon and I had a file that I had to overwrite called I think it was a dbus daemon. Either time I installed it wouldnt show a task bar. csd-smartcard segfaults in dmesg.

Latest snapshot breaks Cinnamon

When Cinnamon starts, it shows a black background. The desktop icons still work, but when opening any window, it spawns in the upper left corner, doesn’t have a border, and isn’t draggable. .xsession-errors shows the following: [3557:0928/100501.592766:ERROR:electron/shell/browser/notifications/linux/libnotify_notification.cc:50] notify_notification_show: domain=331 code=2 message="GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable" (xapp-sn-watcher:3535): GLib…

[daunk]

Yes, I found those but they are locked, which encourages users to make new posts about the same topics.
Nothing has improved, the https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250876 topic isn’t progressing.

So I am asking again, what is going?
How can we fix this?

[hui]

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[hui]

Read the first thread. Especially the comments from shundhammer.

Additional informations can be found in the Cinnamon Portal at the wiki.

[dweeldreyer]

Yeah pretty sad situation isn’t it. Was pretty much informed that if the community does not have time or want to fix it it will just stay broken.

[sfalken]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you are the community, just like any other user here. And things like this don’t just magically get maintained via wishes and dreams.