CINNAMON-SETTINGS(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

cinnamon-settings — the configuration panel for cinnamon, bestie 💅 (yes, the whole Cinnamon desktop's lil control room, and it lives in the cinnamon manual)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cinnamon-settings [-h]
cinnamon-settings MODULE [-t TAB]
cinnamon-settings applets|panel [-p PANEL]
cinnamon-settings applets|desklets|extensions|themes|actions [-t TAB]
cinnamon-settings applets|desklets|extensions|themes|actions -t download [-s SORT]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so cinnamon-settings runs the graphical user interface that lets you configure Cinnamon. no cap, that's the whole vibe 🌸

and here's the slay part: command line arguments can be used to open a specific module — and even a specific tab inside that module. like, you can teleport straight to the thing you wanna tweak. main character energy fr fr 👑

run cinnamon-settings --help to see a list of modules. 🔍

run cinnamon-settings MODULE --tab help to see the available tabs for a particular module. (iykyk — some modules got tabs, some don't, we'll get to that.)

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🪟 PANEL 🪟

when the applets or panel module are specified, PANEL can specify the id of a specific panel to operate on. ✨

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🦋 SORT 🦋

possible choices are, and I'm listing them all because we don't gatekeep:

• name or 0
• score or 1 (default value — this is the one you get if you say nothing)
• date or 2
• installed or 3
• update or 4 (upgradable Spices first, then acts as date)

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

the following options are supported:

• -h, --help — print a help text describing the supported command-line options, and then exit. 🫶
• -s SORT, --sort=SORT — specific to the download tab (see below) for the applets, desklets, extensions, themes and actions modules. 🌈
• -t TAB, --tab=TAB — select the tab to switch to in the module. specifying --tab=help will print a module's available tab names then exit. not all modules have multiple tabs, bestie — don't come for me 😭
• -p PANEL, --panel=PANEL — select the panel ID to operate on. only valid with the applets and panel modules. 🎀

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🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

to open System Settings:

$ cinnamon-settings

to add some applets on the second panel (if it exists):

$ cinnamon-settings applets --panel 2

to open the download tab of the applets module:

$ cinnamon-settings applets --tab=download

or

$ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1

to open the applets download tab and sort by name:

$ cinnamon-settings applets --tab=download --sort=name

or

$ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1 -s 0

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

cinnamon-menu-editor(1) — go say hi to its sibling 💜

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🫶 CONTRIBUTORS 🫶

Claude Clerc (claudiux) and Nicolas Bourdaud (nbourdau). legends only, periodt 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 💖 this was the cinnamon-settings(1) manual from the cinnamon manual, version Cinnamon, dated 2019-02-10. obsessed with you for reading this far, mwah 🎀✨🦋