Latest Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.04 acting weird

[SuperFreak]

I had problems with missing desktop icons. I uninstalled Cinnamon and reinstalled it and they came back

I used

sudo apt-get remove cinnamon

in terminal to remove Cinnamon

[uzumakifahim]

I had problems with missing desktop icons. I uninstalled Cinnamon and reinstalled it and they came back

I used

sudo apt-get remove cinnamon

in terminal to remove Cinnamon

I've done that, but still facing same problem.

[Frogs Hair]

Make sure the file manger is set to handle the desktop in the gnome-tweak-tool > desktop.

[galan55]

Just to save anyone else the pain I went through this weekend. Was happily running Ubuntu 12.04 with Cinnamon 1.8 up until last week. Foolishly upgraded to Cinnamon 2.0, and immediately was unable to tap-to-click using Synaptic Touchpad on my aging Lenovo T61, along with other performance issues. When switching back to Unity desktop, the touchpad worked fine. I could not find any way to go back to Cinnamon 1.8 (poor backup methods), and the fixes I tried (based on forum suggestions) to repair the Synaptic problem using synclient ultimately led to black-screen of death on bootup. Ultimately, I ended up installing Mint 15 with Cinnamon 1.8, which is working noticeably faster than my Precise with 1.8. My suggestion to anyone running 12.04 is NOT to upgrade Cinnamon desktop to 2.0 until it is proven to be stable on 12.04, or there is a reliable fallback to 1.8.

[funkoolow]

i've solved the missing icons problem with

sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full

[buzzingrobot]

The Mint backport of Cinnamon to Mint 13 -- based on 12.04 -- was released a week or so ago. I don't know if that's the case for the version at the PPA, but perhaps it might be worth a look.

Sometimes missing icons are, in fact, just not there. I.e., an incomplete icon set is installed.

[bittmann]

i've solved the missing icons problem with

sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full

Worked for me as well.