Disable the Unity overlay scrollbar, which causes rendering issues in Cinnamon:
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
Install Cinnamon from moorkaï's PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:moorkai/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Log out, select Cinnamon in the login manager by clicking the little Ubuntu icon, and log back in.
- Of the available themes, Ambience has least rendering issues.
- The active icon theme is missing icons for Cinnamon. Humanity icon themes have all of them.
- Cursor rendering issues may be caused by unknown displays. Inspect the Display settings for inconsistencies with actual hardware displays; disable any displays that do not exist. Alternatively, experiment with video card drivers.
- To remove menu shortcuts, right click Menu and click Configure.
- The Shutdown menu buttons may disappear during the change.
Cinnamon defaults to the now-deprecated ConsoleKit for some state changes;
configure it to use
logind
instead:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session settings-daemon-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session screensaver-uses-logind true