When I originally had Xfce, I changed the polkit so that it was in tune with Xfce. The Gnome polkit has huuuuuuuge windows to insert your password. Really long! The Xfce polkit is more normal, or small. I had NO idea that having a different polkit would cause Cinnamon to not load. That surprised me, but I saw it as being one of the very first problems that Cinnamon was seeing when it was loading. After replacing the Xfce version for Gnome, voila! Loaded right up. I’ve been happily using Cinnamon since then.
I usually do sudo pacman -S gnome and then pick all the gnome items.
example 3,5,8,11,15,19,21,27,30,35,36,37,53,59,63
Some might already be installed such as 36 which is the gnome terminal. You can check the list with the command as you have to select them all or individually.
Very cool! Thanks!!! I’ll look into it right now, and report back later. Yup…very cool!
Ah, one of the things that I noticed is that Tracker Miners installs when using some of this. Those things absolutely brings my system to a screeching crawl, and then I have to re-search to find out how to tell them to shut up and go to sleep permanently. I’m going to experiment to see which of the choices would actually call for that to be installed.
Gnome music was the Tracker/Miner culprit of those that I would have chosen. I decided to pass. I did find a few things on there that I really like, and I was able to install them without bringing in the whole Gnome kit-and-kaboodle. LOL
Thanks, @ricklinux. These definitely help to round out Cinnamon.
yay -S spotify for music. It is really good because you can add whole albums.