Can't click on Cinnmon menu

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Can't click on Cinnmon menu

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Hi all,

I've decided to give Cinnamon a whirl after being a long time Xfce user. I'm using the Xfce version of Linux Mint 17.

I installed Cinnamon by doing a simple :

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aptitude install cinnamon
So I log out and log in, and Cinnamon starts up...but I can't do anything with it. Clicking on the menu has no effect, nor on any of the icons on the panel.

Not sure what I could have done wrong, or even where to begin tracking down the problem. Is there some stray configuration that I should clear out before I try this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Desmond
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Re: Can't click on Cinnmon menu

Post by caribriz »

Hi,

I don't know if this is your problem ... but what you describe does happen if "Panel edit" mode is turned on.
(That is, you can't open the Menu and nothing happens when you click on any of the Panel Launchers.)

Right-click the panel to check if Panel edit mode is on - if so, turn it off and retry clicking the Menu and Panel Launchers.
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Re: Can't click on Cinnmon menu

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Hello, branchcut.

I think that installing the software package cinnamon alone (including its dependencies) may not be sufficient.
When I did the opposite of what you tried, added xfce to Mint 17 Cinnamon, I added mint-meta-xfce.
Therefore I assume the right thing to do is

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mint-meta-cinnamon
HTH + kind regards,
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Re: Can't click on Cinnmon menu

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Aha...the panel was indeed in edit mode. Switching that off fixed the problem. Not sure how it got into to that mode, but whatever. Thanks!

I also installed mint-meta-cinnamon, and got some extra themes, so that's good :-)
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