Desktop Environment Cinnamon for Linux Mint 14 Nadiya (Mate)

Linux Mint 14: How to make Cinnamon environment in Mate?

Cinnamon is a user interface. It is a fork of GNOME Shell, initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint. It attempts to provide a more traditional user environment based on the desktop metaphor, like GNOME 2. Cinnamon provides many features, including

• Desktop effects, including animations and transition effects;
• A movable panel equipped with a main menu, launchers, a window list and the system tray;
• Various extensions;
• Applets that appear on the panel
• Overview with functions similar to that in GNOME Shell; and
• Settings editor for easy customization. It can customize:
  • The panel
  • The calendar
  • Themes
  • Desktop effects
  • Applets
  • Extensions                                                                                                                          
    
    

Cinnamon is available in a PPA (personal package archive) for Linux. The default edition comes with either the Cinnamon (Gnome Shell fork) desktop or the MATE (a Gnome 2 fork) desktop. Both are offered for download with or without multimedia codecs included.

First of all open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa

Press Enter when it prompts you. After that update the available packages list by running the command given below:

sudo apt-get update

Now you can install Cinnamon with this command:

sudo apt-get install cinnamon cinnamon-session cinnamon-settings

Now you can enjoy the features of Cinnamon on your Linux system.