Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?
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Linux noob here... I know there is a distro of Fedora 24 with Cinnamon, but I installed the one with Gnome and am trying to figure out how to replace it rather than just boot and nuke with the other ISO.
I tried sudo yum cinnamon-software and got a reply that yum is deprecated and to use dnf. So I did that and got a reply that cinnamon-software isn't a command (could do gnome-software in Fedora 20 though?). Looked in the GUI software repository for the correct name and I can't find anything under 'cinnamon'.
Do I need to add another repository then do another search to find the correct name?
Thanks
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@BBigford sudo dnf install @cinnamon-desktop
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@aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford sudo dnf install cinnamon-desktop
Oh ok, so I'm guessing gnome-software is just the software center... not the desktop portion.
I gave no direction, thanks for the correction.
So after I installed Cinnamon, it still has Gnome running so I tried sudo dnf remove gnome-desktop but can't get it to switch over... What am I missing?
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@BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?
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@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
Linux noob here... I know there is a distro of Fedora 24 with Cinnamon, but I installed the one with Gnome and am trying to figure out how to replace it rather than just boot and nuke with the other ISO.
There is both Fedora 24 with Cinnamon AND Korora 24 which is built from Fedora 24 with Cinnamon added. The later is what you want.
Same with Ubuntu, you can do Ubuntu 16.04 with Cinnmon, or you can do Linux Mint 18 which already has Cinnamon.
In both cases, the one that comes with Cinnamon and is designed as an integrated whole is far superior.
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@aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?
Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?
Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.
This is all I get after installing Cinnamon and logging out... Top right drop down doesn't show anything related to Cinnamon.
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That's the right drop down. It's not populating for some reason.
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Even did sudo dnf install @cinnamon-desktop-environment.
Uninstalled the gnome shell, but couldn't get a cinnamon shell installed. Will pick back up tomorrow.
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No reason to be uninstalling Gnome, in fact that will break things since Cinnamon is built off of Gnome. Why are you uninstalling?
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Cinnamon is an extension to Gnome 3, not a replacement of it. Just as MATE is an extension of Gnome 2.
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
No reason to be uninstalling Gnome, in fact that will break things since Cinnamon is built off of Gnome. Why are you uninstalling?
Did not know it was an extension of Gnome. Strictly a lack of knowledge on my part.
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Cinnamon on Fedora doesn't look quite as sleek as it does on Mint...
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@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
Cinnamon on Fedora doesn't look quite as sleek as it does on Mint...
Nope, because the one is just the framework, the other is all set up and tweaked.
Use Korora instead. Trust me.
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Or you can get crazy and just install many different desktops to try them out.
Enlightenment, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, all available to choose at login. -
@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?
Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.
This is all I get after installing Cinnamon and logging out... Top right drop down doesn't show anything related to Cinnamon.
I had to reboot to get other DEs to show up.
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@momurda said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
Or you can get crazy and just install many different desktops to try them out.
Enlightenment, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, all available to choose at login.Or i3
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@stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?
Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.
This is all I get after installing Cinnamon and logging out... Top right drop down doesn't show anything related to Cinnamon.
I had to reboot to get other DEs to show up.
That ended up being the case.
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So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?
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@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?
It's a group of packages. Like yum group install
