With the launch of Cinnamon 3.0 and the review of its main novelties, it is time to get down to work and install this desktop on our Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Few presentations are necessary for one of the best known and most precious desktops, so we will not dwell on these details this time.
Just like we already told you in his day, the amount of improvements that this new edition brings is quite modest versus past versions. However, they are enough to make a brief review of all of them and assess whether it is worth the update to this new edition.
Cinnamon is a very popular desktop today and is available for a large number of Linux distributions. In this tutorial we have focused on the Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version, but you should know that it is also available in a stable way for version 15.05 of said operating system through the same repository that we indicated.
Cinnamon 3.0 Key Features
The main novelties included in Cinnamon 3,0 are:
- Window management system improvements.
- Touch-pad touch control improvement, which now includes the possibility of scrolling from the laerial or using two fingers at the same time.
- New accessibility capabilities and sound options (modules have been renamed native cinnamon options).
- It is now possible to set a custom name for connected devices using battery.
- Several apps as default programs to open flat files, text documents and source code files.
- Various applications have been added to the launcher panel.
- Now dialog boxes and menus have animations.
- Favorites can be hidden from the applet menu.
- Has improved support for GTK 3.2, Spotify 0.27 and Viber.
Cinnamon 3.0 Installation
And now, without any further distractions, let's get started with installing Cinnamon 3.0 on our system. As you know, your parcel is available through the official PPA repository, so to add it to our Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system we will only need to include the community PPA in our repository.
Xenial users should know that the packages come without guarantees of stability on our equipment, so when installing them we are aware of the risk that this entails and that data loss can always occur. For this reason and although no user has reported that there are incompatibilities that cause problems in the equipment, always back up your most important data when you install packages that suppose big changes in your system.
Having given the appropriate warnings, we indicate the code that you must enter through the console to add stable repository from Cinnamon PPA to your system:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon
Then download the necessary packages using the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cinnamon cinnamon-core
When the download is complete and all dependencies are complete, we will have to close the session and / or restart our computer in order to start with the new Cinnamon desktop. To do this, on the Unity welcome screen (where we can also view the open sessions of the system), we will select "Cinnamon" from the list of available options. We will then proceed to enter our user data and password as usual and from here on we will let the beauty of this desk end up captivating us.
Uninstalling Cinnamon 3.0 from the computer
Not convinced by Cinnamon 3.0? Have you encountered a problem with your computer and want to get rid of this desktop? Follow this step and you will remove all traces from this desktop on your computer.
To roll back Cinnamon 3,0 installation on your system you will have to re-execute an instruction through the console, specifically this one:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon
Once executed, the packages will have been eliminated and any dependencies that may exist cleaned.
Have you tried the new desktop version of Cinnamon 3.0? What impressions has it given you? Is it stable on your system? Leave us your comments if you have installed it on your computers.