Linux: The Ultimate Guide

Features
Features provided by Cinnamon include:
1. Desktop effects, including animation, transition effects, and trans-
parency using make-up
2. Panels with the main menu, launchers, window list, and system tray 
can be adjusted left, right, the top, or bottom edge of the screen
3. Various extensions
4. Apples from the panel
5. An overview of activities similar to those at GNOME Shell
6. Settings editor for easy customization:
• Panel
• Calendar
• Themes

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• Desktop results
• Apples
• Extensions
The volume and light adjustment are applied to the scroll wheel while 
pointing to the taskbar icon. As of January 24, 2012, there were no official 
documents for Cinnamon itself, although most GNOME Shell documents 
apply to Cinnamon.
USER GUIDE
Amazing GUI
It is no secret that GUI seems essential to any Linux distribution. We even 
have users who like a particular distro just because of the beautiful nature 
of the desktop, and Cinnamon is one of them. The Cinnamon desktop 
does not come with unnecessary icons and shortcuts.
Cinnamon Desktop.
You can stop using System Settings and go to the desktop menu. You 
can choose whether they appear in the primary or secondary monitor or 
all user monitors with multiple monitors.

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Use of Desklets
Cinnamon offers several desklets, including a weather app, a desktop photo 
frame application, time and date, sticky notes, CPU, or disk monitors.
Adding Desklets.
One of my favorites is the Time and Day desktop. That’s what we call 
desklets – a one-purpose app that adds to your desktop for easy access.
Speed
Since you started using Linux, some have used Cinnamon on Fedora, 
Debian, and Ubuntu. Cinnamon worked well in all of these distros and 
quickly and easily launched apps. The desktop itself does not take long to 
load once it is entered. Also, Cinnamon is compatible with hardware on 
PCs with fewer resources like Ram. Unless you use additional applications 
such as Desklets, Cinnamon should work fine on your PC.
Integration
With Linux desktop locations, you will find specific applications in them 
all. For example, you say you want to install a GNOME-screenshot in 
another location like KDE, Mate, or Budgie – if the specified location 
does not support the required GNOME screen libraries, you will not be 
able to install it. Fortunately, with Cinnamon, things are getting a lot 
better because of the strong integration of libraries. You can install mul-
tiple applications regardless of the desktop environment for which they 

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are designed. Cinnamon supports all KDE libraries, GNOME, and other 
Desktop domains.
Extremely Customizable
Although not available as KDE, Cinnamon allows you to customize it 
enough to have a good user interface. The control center application gives 
you access to all Cinnamon desktop configurations. You can open a win-
dow in the configuration feature in the window that opens. You can also 
change the look of your desktop image using theme options in system set-
tings. You can customize window parameters, thumbnails, and pointers, 
and upgrade your desktop. Additionally, you also customize the fonts and 
desktop background.
All visibility settings are located at the top of the window. Everything in 
the “System Settings” window looks clean and tidy. Go to System Settings 
and find something similar to that given below.