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Cinnamon 5.4 released in preparation for Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
Cinnamon 5.4 was released in preparation for Linux Mint 21 Vanessa.
Check out what's new in this release and see how to install.
Cinnamon is a graphical environment developed by the Linux Mint community and is a fork
of Gnome Shell, the Nautilus file manager, and the Mutter window manager, with the goal
of providing the classic Gnome 2-style environment with support for successful Gnome Shell interaction
elements.
Cinnamon is based on Gnome components, but these components are sent as a periodically
synchronized fork that is not externally related to Gnome.
Now, Cinnamon 5.4 has been scheduled for release and distribution with the upcoming Linux Mint
21 operating system series "Vanessa", which will be released this summer based on Canonical's
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish".
Cinnamon 5.4 comes nearly seven months after Cinnamon 5.2, which you are currently using
with your Linux Mint 20.3 "Una" installations, and comes with a newer and more stable window
manager and a JavaScript interpreter based on a more modern version of GNOME's Mutter
window and composite manager, as well as GJS JavaScript links for GNOME.
On this, lead developer Clement Lefebvre said that:
"In preparation for Linux Mint 21, we're updating cinnamon's Javascript interpreter and re-rebased
your window manager on a more modern version of Mutter.
This is a huge task and requires many code changes in Cinnamon itself and causes a significant
number of regressions."
Highlights of the Cinnamon 5.4 desktop environment include terminal resizing pop-up, the ability
to copy system information to the clipboard, simplified hotcorner configuration and support
for corner barriers, updated fractional scale switch backend, enhanced Show Desktop applet,
support for application actions (with icons) in the Menu applet, and an xrandr applet port
for the Muffin API.
With this version, Cinnamon is now able to adapt to logical monitors, where the primary
monitor is not always 0.
This version also disables some features from previous versions, such as some of the media
keys, as they are now handled internally by the Muffin window manager, as well as the
'hover' effect for the background of the display module.
Among other notable changes implemented in Cinnamon 5.4, there is better keyboard navigation
for the Menu applet, support for the Calendar applet to display the end time for one-day
events, improved support for the RTL layout (right to left) for the sound applet volume
slider, as well as support for the desklet photoframe not display hidden files or files
located in hidden directories.
The sound applet has also been updated to hide the microphone mute switch when the microphone
is not being used, and the power applet now shows text and value by dragging the brightness
slider.
In addition, the Window List applet now offers the option to change the width of the button.
Several bug fixes are also present to fix device duplicates in the Power applet, the
implementation of the increase/decrease desklet layer, the placement of the XApp Status Applet
tooltip in vertical panels, various key combinations, documentation, and many other major components.
How to install or upgrade Cinnamon 5.4 is available for download right
now on your GitHub page for Linux operating system vendors who want to integrate it into
its next major version or just provide its users with the latest update.
That is, for those who are interested in being able to install this new version of the desktop
environment, they can do this for now by downloading their source code and compiling it on their
system.
It will also be provided as the default desktop environment of the upcoming Linux Mint 20.3
"One" distribution.
If you use Ubuntu, or a derivative of it, here's how to install the latest version using
this tutorial: How to install the latest version of cinnamon
environment on Ubuntu
In the case of Arch Linux, the package is not yet within the repositories, but in AUR
it is a matter of hours for it to be available.
When you are, to install the package as soon as it is available, use the command below
in a terminal: yay -S cinnamon
While for Fedora, the package will also soon be available for previous versions.
To install the package as soon as it is available, use the command below on a terminal:
sudo dnf install cinnamon.
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