Cinnamon is a Linux desktop environment that is designed to provide users advanced and innovative features with a traditional feel and experience. It is originally a fork of the popular GNOME shell.

Cinnamon 3.0 was recently released and it brings about a lot of changes under the hood. Clement Lefebvre who is the leader of the Linux Mint development team, has brought to our notice that Cinnamon 3 is especially meant for Linux Mint 18.

Therefore, users of Linux Mint 17.x may not be able to enjoy the new features and functionalities that Cinnamon 3 brings.

The following is the list of features and changes included in the new Cinnamon 3 version:

Tilling, mapping and unmapping windows and so many other windows management improvements

touchpad support which includes edge scrolling and two-finger scrolling

renaming battery powered devices

application actions in panel launchers

dialogs and menus with animated effects

new sound and accessibility settings

improved support for GTK 3.20, Viber Spotify 0.27

disable favorites and system options from menu applet and so much more

Installing Cinnamon 3.0 Desktop on Ubuntu

ADVERTISEMENTS

Cinnamon 3.0 is not available to install on Ubuntu officially as of no but you can install it on Ubuntu 16.04/15.10/15.04 via a community PPA.

Caution: Always remember that packages installed from community PPAs come with no guarantees.

To add the PPA to your system, run the following command:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon

Then run the command below to update your systems’ repository list and install Cinnamon 3.0 desktop afterward:

$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install cinnamon

When the system completes installing Cinnamon 3.0, logout of your current session in Unity and then select Cinnamon desktop as seen in the image below.

Then login to start using Cinnamon 3.0.

A feel of the Cinnamon 3.0 desktop environment on Ubuntu 15.10.

If you want to remove Cinnamon 3.0 from your Ubuntu system, run the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get remove cinnamon $ sudo apt-get autoremove

Cinnamon 3.0 desktop environment is a cool desktop environment and one of my best, it offers a user-friendly interface to operate with and it can be easily customized.

Hope you find this tutorial useful and for any questions or additional information, remember to leave a comment down below.