{"id":6770,"date":"2017-05-08T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2017-05-09T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:47:52","slug":"install-cinnamon-3-4-ubuntu-16-04-17-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/install-cinnamon-3-4-ubuntu-16-04-17-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Cinnamon 3.4 in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mint_logo.png\" alt=\"Cinnamon 3.4\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5835\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon desktop environment has reached the new massive 3.4 release a few days ago. Though there&#8217;s <del>no<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/segfault.linuxmint.com\/2017\/05\/cinnamon-3-4-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">official announcement<\/a> published on Linux Mint blog <del>at the moment of writing<\/del>, you can now install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon 3.4.0 brings over 160 changes, and here are some of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The settings daemon is split into multiple processes. Make it easy to identify excessive CPU or memory usage and isolating crashes to only affect a particular plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Nemo is split into two separate processes. One for the desktop icons, and one for the file manager windows.<\/li>\n<li>Added &#8220;Run now&#8221; button in the settings&#8217; module for managing startup applications<\/li>\n<li>Support for configuring the LightDM login manager in Cinnamon Settings.<\/li>\n<li>New Cinnamon Settings option for configuration acceleration and sensitivity of the mouse.<\/li>\n<li>Cinnamon is now capable of adapting to the multi-process CSD.<\/li>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/Cinnamon\/commit\/ab1adf07c8746b017da4307c1ab89db9e47a1712\" target=\"_blank\">full changelog<\/a> for details.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cinnamon-3-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cinnamon-3-4-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"Cinnamon Desktop 3.4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cinnamon-3-4-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cinnamon-3-4-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cinnamon-3-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cinnamon-3-4.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Cinnamon 3.4 via PPA in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~embrosyn\/+archive\/ubuntu\/cinnamon\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a> has just build the Cinnamon 3.4 packages for Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from start menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn\/cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cinnamon3-2-ppa.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cinnamon3-2-ppa-600x90.jpg\" alt=\"Cinnamon 3.4 PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"90\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cinnamon3-2-ppa-600x90.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cinnamon3-2-ppa-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cinnamon3-2-ppa.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then update and install Cinnamon desktop via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install cinnamon<\/pre>\n<p>After that, log out and select log in back with Cinnamon session.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cinnamon-login.jpg\" alt=\"Cinnamon session in greeter\" width=\"528\" height=\"272\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cinnamon-login.jpg 528w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cinnamon-login-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinnamon desktop environment has reached the new massive 3.4 release a few days ago. Though there&#8217;s no official announcement published on Linux Mint blog at the moment of writing, you can now install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA. Cinnamon 3.4.0 brings over 160 changes, and here are some of them: The settings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[352,1476],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-cinnamon","tag-linux-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}