Running Cinnamon 3.2 on (32-bit) Ubuntu 17.04 (Solved !)

[mhenriday]

I've just installed the Cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu 17.04 (which itself was installed on an ancient Dell Inspiron 1525 machine), and a search on Synaptic confirms that it has been successfully installed. Despite that, the desktop environment I encounter when I start the computer is the Unity default, which I should prefer not to have to use. Any suggestions as to how I can convince Cinnamon to run on this machine ?... :(

Henri

[howefield]

You did select the Cinnamon environment from the login screen, yes ?

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[mhenriday]

Hand to forehead - smack ! Thanks, howefield - I beg to be allowed to excuse myself for missing the obvious by appealing to the fact that it's been some years since I've used Ubuntu....

Thanks again ! :p

Henri

[howefield]

No problem, and thanks for marking the thread as solved although it's better to use Thread Tools > Mark this thread as solved.

[mhenriday]

I shall study deserving.... ;)

Henri