On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:40:51 CET Michal Suchanek wrote: > I upgraded cinnamon to current version and the failsafe session no longer > includes gnome panel. > This reduces dependencies but when cinnamon actually fails you are left with > a black screen with a mouse cursor. > It turns out that this screen actually shows my desktop folder (empty after > fresh installation) so strategically placing some program icons there > allows me to continue with the session. > Also right-clicking the black screen gives a menu which allows starting a > terminal. > Neither is very obvious, however. > It would be nice if the failsafe session included some visible program > menu/launcher.
Just to add some context, cinnamon-launcher falls back to metacity as a window manager and gnome-panel or tint2 for a panel if cinnamon fails to start correctly. Neither of these three are dependencies of cinnamon, and I don't think they should be. These are only used in case of a total system failure to show something to the user. It would be nice if the launcher script had more fallback options, but I think that it should be a valid installation if the user doesn't want to install them. Maybe adding this information to the Readme.Debian file will be enough. Happy hacking, -- "Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria." -- Richard M. Stallman Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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