I've recently reinstalled Debian 12.6 to my Ryzen 5 7600, in otherwords, a clean install.
For the desktop to be chosen during the installation of Debian 12.6, I selected Cinnamon and nothing else.
I've always like the Cinnamon "experience" compared to Gnome.
However, the Cinnamon GUI configuration controls don't always function as expected, or for that matter, have any effect at all.
A couple of examples of flaky behaviour are: From System Settings... 1. Changing background, 2. Changine themes.
When I attempt to change either of these settings (from the GUI tool), I get no change at all, even after a logout, or a reboot.
My daily user account has sudo privileges.
So I have 2 questions...
a) "Would there be any benefit to removing Cinnamon, installing Gnome, then resinstalling Cinnamon, and selecting Cinnamon
as my default desktop? Or is the coexistence of these two desktops on the same machine, just asking for trouble?"
I've searched all over the web to try and find an answer, and the posts do not seem to have much consistency (for or against coexistence).
My impression of Cinnamon lately, is that it is "buggy"; at least when installed on Debian. (I quit Mint a couple of years ago because I
felt it was too bloated. I far prefer Debian today.)
b) "Is there a reference to GMOME command line tools or commands, somewhere on the internet, so that I might try commands as an alternative
to modifying Cinnamon (versus using the GUI supplied tools from the System Settings option on the main menu)?"
Thank you.
For the desktop to be chosen during the installation of Debian 12.6, I selected Cinnamon and nothing else.
I've always like the Cinnamon "experience" compared to Gnome.
However, the Cinnamon GUI configuration controls don't always function as expected, or for that matter, have any effect at all.
A couple of examples of flaky behaviour are: From System Settings... 1. Changing background, 2. Changine themes.
When I attempt to change either of these settings (from the GUI tool), I get no change at all, even after a logout, or a reboot.
My daily user account has sudo privileges.
So I have 2 questions...
a) "Would there be any benefit to removing Cinnamon, installing Gnome, then resinstalling Cinnamon, and selecting Cinnamon
as my default desktop? Or is the coexistence of these two desktops on the same machine, just asking for trouble?"
I've searched all over the web to try and find an answer, and the posts do not seem to have much consistency (for or against coexistence).
My impression of Cinnamon lately, is that it is "buggy"; at least when installed on Debian. (I quit Mint a couple of years ago because I
felt it was too bloated. I far prefer Debian today.)
b) "Is there a reference to GMOME command line tools or commands, somewhere on the internet, so that I might try commands as an alternative
to modifying Cinnamon (versus using the GUI supplied tools from the System Settings option on the main menu)?"
Thank you.
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