Cinnamon refuses to change themes, applets and backgrounds

[lucas256]

Hi everybody, first I'd like to say I'm new in here, but very curious and interested about almost everything (GNU/Linux especially), so you will see me very frequently in here for messing a ~little~ too much with my system...

Now I'm suffering with cinnamon, it works perfecly, except it don't let me change desktop backgrounds, themes, applets, desklets, etc... It's just stuck with the default configuration. It's nice and beautiful, but I want to customise things

When I open the cinnamon-settings window everything seens normal, but none of the cinnamon related configurations work and it crashes everytime I click on the applets button. I don't know how to fix this, already reinstalled cinnamon, even after purging it, but the problem continues. Anyone knows what it may be?

Thanks, Lucas

[austin.texas]

Please post the info on your system.
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inxi -zv7

[lucas256]

Here the results:

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System:    Host: ******** Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine:   System: SAMSUNG product: RC420/RC520/RC720 version: 0.1 Chassis: type: 9 version: 0.1
           Mobo: SAMSUNG model: RC420/RC520/RC720 version: FAB1 Bios: Phoenix version: 07FA date: 10/12/2011
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-2410M CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9178.98 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 1200.00 MHz 4: 2300.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau,intel Resolution: 1366x768@60.2hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller 
           driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-3: Atheros usb-ID: 0cf3:3004
           IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter> IF: wlan0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 782.2GB (34.9% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HTS54757 size: 750.2GB serial: J2540054CKZ4SE 
           2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: Cruzer_Blade size: 32.0GB serial: 4C530399910608102035-0:0 
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A rev: N/A dev-links: cdrom
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: N/A
Partition: ID: / size: 682G used: 255G (40%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           label: N/A uuid: 6b1ecf0f-0191-489d-a3af-617df92e64cb
           ID: swap-1 size: 6.35GB used: 0.66GB (10%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
           label: N/A uuid: 96e20643-5d41-4f97-ab0e-92ed08489ce9
RAID:      System: supported: N/A
           No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
           Unused Devices: none
Unmounted: ID: /dev/sr0 size: 1.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A 
           ID: /dev/sdb1 size: 32.02G label: N/A uuid: 1E74-8447 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0C mobo: 29.8C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 193 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 2552.4/5882.2MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 

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I'm almost sure that the problem is with some cinnamon configuration and not the hardware, since it still works, but stuck with the default config