After 6 months of development formed user environment cinnamon 5.4 , in which the Linux Mint distribution developers are developing the Gnome Shell, the Nautilus file manager and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing the environment in the classical GNOME 2 style with supporting successful elements interactions from Gnome Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components are delivered as a periodically synchronized fork that is not connected by external dependencies with GNOME. The new release of Cinnamon will be proposed in the Linux Mint 21 distribution, which is planned to be released in July.
- The Muffin window manager is transferred to the fresh code base of the Metacy window manager, developed by the GNOME project. The JavaScript interpreter used by the project ( gjs ). The indicated changes required significant internal processing, on which the main attention was paid to the preparation of the new branch.
- The binding of actions when bringing the cursor to the angles of the screen (Hotcorner).
- Improved support for non -kissed values during scaling.
- The concept of logical monitors is implemented, in which the primary monitor is not always equal to 0.
- Xrandr applet is transferred to the use of the API window manager Muffin.
- Added the ability to copy information about the system to the exchange buffer.
- redeemed applet to change the layout and configuration of the keyboard.
- In Applete, the menu has been added to the possibility of showing additional actions in advanced applications (for example, opening the incognito mode in the browser or writing a new message in the postal client).
- In the appeal of the sound control, hidden the microphone button, if the microphone is not used.
- For configuring Bluetooth connections instead of Blueberry, superstructures over GNOME Bluetooth, an interface based on Blueman, GTK applications using the Bluez.
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