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amicable

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Registered: 2015-01-12

Posts: 2

[Cinnamon] Can't launch cinnamon-settings from menu.

Hi all,

I've just put together a fresh install with gdm and cinnamon, but I can't launch the cinnamon-settings widget from the settings button (on the bottom left)

From what I've gathered in my forum / wiki / google searches, this isn't too uncommon. However, unlike in those cases, I can launch the settings widget from the console. I can also navigate through it, except it doesn't actually *do* anything when I change settings. This is somewhat annoying, as I want to theme the desktop / set up my multi-head configuration properly / change the background.. you get the picture.

This is what I have installed:

[wfaithfull@mjolnir ~]$ pacman -Ss | grep cinnamon
community/cinnamon 2.4.8-1 [installed]
community/cinnamon-control-center 2.4.2-3 [installed]
community/cinnamon-desktop 2.4.2-1 [installed]
community/cinnamon-menus 2.4.1-1 [installed]
community/cinnamon-screensaver 2.4.2-1 [installed]
community/cinnamon-session 2.4.3-2 [installed]
community/cinnamon-settings-daemon 2.4.3-1 [installed]
community/cinnamon-translations 2.4.4-1 [installed]

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Last edited by amicable (2015-05-11 14:00:23)

amicable

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Registered: 2015-01-12

Posts: 2

Re: [Cinnamon] Can't launch cinnamon-settings from menu.

Wow, this was stupid. I hadn't used cinnamon before - I thought it looked a lot like GNOME.. and guess what, it IS GNOME. that's why the settings don't work. My problem is that GDM picked the wrong session. Jesus.