Nemo 1.0.4 and Cinnamon 1.6.2
Two maintenance releases are out.
Nemo 1.0.4:
- Fixed Alt-arrow keyboard shortcuts
- Added nemo-wallpaper extension
- Open-as-root now calls nemo itself (as opposed to xdg-open)
- Nemo now autostarts whether or not org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons is at true or false
Cinnamon 1.6.2:
- New “keyboard bindings” page in cinnamon settings
- Fixed alignment in notification popups
- Prevent non-gtk-systray-icons from disappearing on redisplay
- Window-list applet: Fix regression to close-all and close-other
- menu applet fix: get_key_focus was triggering a changed signal on the search text box, which was resetting categories (thinking a search was being performed).
- Don’t hide Spotify from system tray
- updated translations
- altTab: Fix thumbnail size calculation for some dual-head setups
- [Expo] Remove clip – fixes dual-display issue with clipped workspace ……display
- Fixed conky/mintupload windows appearing in alt-tab
- Use bottomMonitor to position bottom-aligned hot corner.
- Alt-tab: Icons + Thumbnails as default choice
- Enabled notifications and settings applets by default
- Ignore the GNOME setting for handling the desktop (nemo should always start)
Many thanks for all your hard work. Looking forward to checking out the updates to both Cinnamon and Nemo (which is shaping up to be a fine file manager). The updates haven’t hit the repos yet but I’m sure they will soon.
By the way, Maya/Cinnamon (32 bit) with all the latest updates has taken to my older Thinkpad R61 like it always belonged there (Intel Core 2 duo, 2GB DDR2, Intel 965 chipset/GM3100 HD graphics). Surprisingly fast, fairly easy on the battery, temps run between 32 C and 56 C max and cooling fans operating properly. I’m very impressed.
Hi,
quick question: did you make an option to disable windows popping up on other workspaces? (http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=216#comment-3563)
No, that didn’t get in yet, but we’re planning to add it.
Wow, that would be absolutely awesome! Thank you in advance!
Here’s something funny I’ve spotted in Nemo:
When opening it by clicking on a desktop icon, and clicking Help > About, the Nautilus About window is displayed, whereas, the Nenmo About window is displayed when opening it by clicking on a panal icon.
A second thing: Will the Lock screen be changed from the current horrible GNOME Shell one (with the panel on top) in time for Mint 14?
I’d rather not say too much until we have a working solution, but I’m not happy at all with the screensaver either.
PARABÉNS!!! Estou louco pra começar a testar esses novos lançamentos!!!
Obrigado pela correção nos atalhos ALT+Setas pelo teclado.
Hi Clem,
I did answer you with the information of Mutter vs. Muffin and the whole zoom issue in the original Cinnamon 1.6 thread. I also followed up with three posts on GitHub containing additional information when the person assigned the bug notified me that the bug was being CLOSED because he couldn’t replicate the problem (heck, YOU replicated the problem easily so I don’t know what his issue is). In any event, the problem does not happen under vanilla Gnome3 Mutter so it’s likely something changed in Muffin.
Please see what you can do and thanks…
@Clem:
Here’s the link to the bug:
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/832#issuecomment-9203829
When I see “updated translations”, I am happy that cinnamon is available in “Malayalam” also.
But I like to know the status of old font problem affect these translations, which I asked here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=114020
@clem could you make this optional, and if it is already, explain how to disable it? http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=115002
thanks for all the great work
Cinnamon Settings -> Windows -> Enable edge tiling
If Cinnamon had some kind of Zeitgeist powered file search built in it would be my dream desktop. Please consider adding this in the future.
Until then I applaud you ousting Shell and Unity as the best Gnome desktop.
There is one. It’s called synapse.
> sudo apt-get install synapse
and if you want the latest version:
> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:synapse-core/ppa
Excellent as always!
I have only one minor issue – Super key is not working in shortcuts for me – like Super (Left Windows key) in combination with other keys (Super + E) to start Nemo e.g. It insteads starts search as if Super was not detected. Used to work before.
3 things
First – a thousand thank yous! This is such a nice DE
2nd I notice that nemo hangs if you use smbnetfs Mounting in your home folder. I fixed this by creating a folder in /media and Chmod 777 so I had full read/write. Not sure why it happens it didn’t in 1.4 but it also hangs nautilus. Could be a smbnetfs problem.
Lastly anyway to get the nautilus share plugin with nemo? That would be perfect.
Again thank you for cinnamon
Hi guys,
First of all: Thank you very much for the great work! You’re on the right track to make Linux a real option for all computer users.
Secondly, with this last update I got the font of the panel too large. I always use the text scaling factor in the cinnamon settings with 0.8 but it seems that atm the panel font doesn’t read that value… Even if I scale it up a lot, the panel is still the same size. Anyway I can fix it?
Cheers!
FYI – I’m on Fedora 17
I want to use Nemo as my default file browser… Any quick and fast instructions?
When I plug in my external HDD it always open nautilus…
you can remove nautilus with synaptic.
Simply, I removed nautilus. Then I fixed also the “open as root” bug
Hi! Great Clem, I love Cinnamon. Isn’t it still on romeo repository? I haven’t found it in the updates manager. Thank you for your work.
Ricardo – Simply uninstall Nautilus and reboot. This will force the system to use Nemo. Worked well for me with no problems.
But if I remove Nautilus, it wants to remove gnome and ubuntu-desktop
I want to keep Ubuntu/Gnome available…
Has anyone been able to upgrade to these latest releases yet? For me the only versions available are still Cinnamon 1.6.1 and Nemo 1.0.2 (1.0.3 never was never available through any repo).
Perhaps I found the answer to my own question? Checking both the Cinnamon stable and nightly PPAs, Nemo 1.0.4 failed to build for both i386 and amd64 despite the fact that “status” indicates that both versions were “published”. This is probably what’s holding the updated versions of Cinnamon and Nemo from arriving in the Mint repos since from what I’ve seen in the past, Gwendal builds the packages to these above PPAs first.
S’okay. Patience is and all that.
hi Kirk,
Yes, nemo 1.0.4 works well but the debian packaging that comes with it has issues. We fixed them today in git latest. The reason it’s not in Mint though is because we’re anticipating another release soon.
Got it and thanks. I was just about to build from Git this evening when I decided to check the Cinnamon nightly PPA once more and Nemo 1.0.4 was there. Installed and running just fine. Okay, so I’m lazy.
Any news on the white borders to the right and bottom of many icons? This one is an eyesore and I am hoping it can be solved before setting up Mint on several machines for colleagues in the coming weeks.
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/984
Others have suggested I just need to allow the panel to have an adjustable size and let the icons scale. This doesn’t solve the problem, however. On reboot, the white is back. If I reload Cinnamon the white goes away, but then if an icon changes (like the ibus icon where it changes when selecting a different input language) then the white is back.
Another issue
Screen goes blank after a while (just upgraded Ubuntu)… I went to System Settings, Brightness and Lock. and System Settings, Power– Don’t suspend. Neither worked 
Get Linux Mint. You’ll solve all your problems.
@Giancarlo, ALL my problems? money included?! :p I might consider Mint in the future, but for now I like my Ubuntu+Cinnamon combination.
Answering myself this question, I found the solution at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2062608
Option “BlankTime” “0″
Option “StandbyTime” “0″
Option “SuspendTime” “0″
Option “OffTime” “0″
added to xorg.conf in ServerLayout section…
Now I just need to find how to force the system to use Nemo without uninstalling Nautilus…
And replying again to myself
To get the system to use Nemo instead of Nautilus, one must edit the /usr/share/applications/defaults.list file (in my case, it’s a link to /etc/gnome/defaults.list) and replace
inode/directory=nautilus.desktop
with
inode/directory=nemo.desktop
Still having issues with Nemo not starting when changing resolutions. This results in all my desktop icons being gone. This happens if I go to display and change it, or if I plug in another output source via hdmi. Once I open Nemo, they all come back. A minor annoyance, but still an annoyance. Good job overall though!
I have a problem on latest Cinnamon versions. By default when you press Alt and then click on a window area an move the mouse, the window is moved. I changed it to be Super in gconf-editor: apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier: (it was ).
I did that so I could use the Alt key in Blender program (for example select an edge and Alt+LeftMouse to select a loop) because if it was assigned to move the window it don’t works in blender.
But now Cinnamon seems not look anymore to that change I did in config-editor and uses Alt to move the window (insted Super that I indicated). And I can’t find anywhere to configure it in the Keyboard/Cinnamon Settings.
Another question. I have the Applet “Panel Launchers” active so I have several launchers: Firefox, Gimp, Inkscape, Calculator… But I have two doubts:
- How to change the order of these icons. Previously I could do that but now I can’t find the way. Previously I think it was just hovering for a time and then the icon “floated” and you could move it to the new place. Now I tried absolutely all and I can’t find the way. I searched and I didn’t find any help page about this.
- I would like to add a customized program (that doesn’t appear in the menu applications because is compiled by me, not downloaded from the repository). How to add such a customized launcher?
-Add customized launcher (to panel)
1. Add any launcher from the menu
2. Right click on icon on panel, click > Edit
3. Modify launcher to open your custom program.
Easy-peasy
Yes, good workaround.
clement, you can add the option “extract here” co clicking the button right on nemo.
thank you,
To All,
Upgraded to 1.6 and 1.6.4 subsequently, so far, very nice. Only problem that is at all pesky is when logging in, sometimes all my desktop icons are gone. Have to log in several times to finally get them to display. Also, on the home PC, the recyle icon intermittently disappears form time to time. Anyone else having this issue? If I’ve overlooked a comment and/or fix related to this, please excuse the redundancy, but I haven’t found much yet on it. Other than that, Cinnamon seams much more polished than Mate, although both are getting it done for me. Starting to lean in favor of Cinnamon though.
duhh, i just saw a comment about something to do with nemo not starting correctly and causing some issues with icons. guess it is a know problem. sorry for the oversight.