Desktop freezes

has received some great changes that make it more stable and easier. So now let’s get started without wasting any more time.

In the earlier version, some users might have faced desktop freeze issues that made users terminate the session. But now whenever cinnamon freezes you can restart cinnamon without losing any work. Unlike before you had to press Ctrl + Alt + Backspace which terminates the session and cancel all of your work. But now you can restart Cinnamon with default assigned shortcut key Ctrl + Alt + Escape and that restarts the whole session and your session is exactly the same as it was.





logind



You no longer need to recompile Cinnamon to choose between consolekit and logind support. This is done in gsettings and you can decide which relevant Cinnamon components use which session/power-management backend:

Set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind to true to make Cinnamon rely on logind to restart/shutdown/suspend/hibernate the computer from the shutdown dialog, or to false to restart/shutdown the computer via consolekit and suspend/hibernate via upower.

Set org.cinnamon.desktop.session settings-daemon-uses-logind in a similar fashion to control suspending/hibernating on idle or via multimedia keys.

Set org.cinnamon.desktop.session screensaver-uses-logind to true to make the screensaver listen to logind, or to false to make it listen to consolekit.

Multi-Monitor Support

Support for multiple monitors was improved. Better window list actions and new keybindings allow you to move windows to other monitors (Super+Shift with arrow keys by default). But the most significant improvement is that you can now have multiple panels and place them across multiple monitors.

Applets are better than before at running multiple instances of themselves and some of them got smarter to accommodate multi-monitor/multi-panel setups. For instance, a window list applet won’t show you windows from another monitor if that monitor has a panel with its own window list.

Panels & Applets Improvements

Panels

Panels can now be added/removed/configured individually and moved to different positions across one or multiple monitors.

Applets

A new “inhibit” applet was introduced which allows you to quickly turn notifications off or to disable power management. This applet is handy when performing presentations, to prevent unwanted notifications to pop up, to prevent the screen from dimming brightness or the screen to get locked. You no longer need to modify your power settings, you can just temporarily disable all that.

Cinnamon 2.6 Screenshots