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Installation

Disable the Unity overlay scrollbar, which causes rendering issues in Cinnamon:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

Install Cinnamon from moorkaï's PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:moorkai/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

Log out, select Cinnamon in the login manager by clicking the little Ubuntu icon, and log back in.

Configuration

  • Of the available themes, Ambience has least rendering issues.
  • The active icon theme is missing icons for Cinnamon. Humanity icon themes have all of them.
  • Cursor rendering issues may be caused by unknown displays. Inspect the Display settings for inconsistencies with actual hardware displays; disable any displays that do not exist. Alternatively, experiment with video card drivers.
  • To remove menu shortcuts, right click Menu and click Configure.
  • The Shutdown menu buttons may disappear during the change. Cinnamon defaults to the now-deprecated ConsoleKit for some state changes; configure it to use logind instead:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session settings-daemon-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session screensaver-uses-logind true
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