Cinnamon is the default desktop environment of Linux Mint.
Unlike Unity in Ubuntu, Cinnamon is more traditional but elegant
looking desktop environment with bottom panel and app menu etc. No, you
don’t need to install Linux Mint just for trying Cinnamon. In this
tutorial we shall see how to install Cinnamon in Ubuntu 14.04.
Install Cinnamon in Ubuntu 14.04
There used to be a-sort-of official PPA
from Cinnamon team for Ubuntu but it doesn’t exist anymore. Don’t loose
heart. There is an unofficial PPA available and it works perfectly.
Open a terminal and use the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lestcape/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
It will download files of around 130 MB
in size (if I remember correctly). This also provides you with Nemo
(Nautilus fork) and Cinnamon Control Center. These bonus stuff gives a
closer feel of Linux Mint.
Using Cinnamon desktop environment in Ubuntu 14.04
Once you have installed Cinnamon, log
out of the current session. At the login screen, click on the
Ubuntu symbol beside the username:
When you do this, it will give you all
the desktop environments available for your system. No need to tell you
that you have to choose Cinnamon:
Now you should be logged in to Ubuntu
with Cinnamon desktop environment. Remember, you can do the same to
switch back to Unity. Here is a quick screenshot of what it looked like
to run
Cinnamon in Ubuntu 14.04:
Looks completely like Linux Mint, isn’t
it? I didn’t find any compatibility issue between Cinnamon and Unity. I
switched back and froth between Unity and Cinnamon and both worked
perfectly.
Remove Cinnamon from Ubuntu 14.04
It is understandable that you might want
to uninstall Cinnamon. We will use PPA Purge for this purpose. Let’s
install PPA Purge first:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
Afterwards, use the following command to purge the PPA:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:lestcape/cinnamon
I hope this post helps you to install Cinnamon in Ubuntu 14.04. Do share your experience with Cinnamon.
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