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Cinnamon Desktop

Cinnamon is a desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint project which provides advanced modern features on top of a traditional desktop layout. It aims to be easy to use, powerful and flexible. News and extensions can be found at the Cinnamon website.

Getting Cinnamon

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Spin

The Fedora Cinnamon spin, since Fedora 23, can be used to try Cinnamon as a live CD/USB and to install it. Get it at the Spins website.

Netinstall

The Cinnamon desktop group can be selected when installing from a Netinstall ISO.

dnf

The Cinnamon desktop group can be installed from dnf and easily switched to on an existing desktop installation of Fedora.

dnf install @cinnamon-desktop

After installation, switch the session to Cinnamon on the login screen.

IRC Support

  • #fedora-cinnamon on irc.freenode.net
  • #fedora on irc.freenode.net, for more general Fedora assistance
  • #linuxmint-dev on irc.spotchat.org, the upstream Cinnamon development channel

Links

  • [1] Linux Mint and Cinnamon news
  • [2] Cinnamon Spices (Themes, Applets, Desklets, and Extensions)