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I have Cinnamon installed on my 14.10 system and recently it stopped working properly. Maybe I did a bad config and therefore want to completely (200%) delete and reset all data belonging to this for having a fresh clean installation later.

The original question about how to solve the issue was this one, but nobody answers, so I ask for it a bit different.

I already performed sudo apt-get purge cinnamon as well as gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon, but after any reinstallation it still suffered from the same error.

Please help me to understand what happened and how to get rid of the bad setting I think is responsible for this.

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  • Look at your /home// folder for any setting of cinnamon and delete them. – kirill-a Jan 16 '15 at 11:32
  • Okay, now i have additionally run apt-get autoremove and autoclear which deleted some other cinnamon packages. Then I deleted the ~/.cinnamon and ~/.config/cinnamon-sessions. I will now reinstall it and check if it works. Thank you so far. – Byte Commander Jan 16 '15 at 13:19
  • I did not get happy with this, as after reinstalling it, I still encounter the same error. Can you tell me how to delete the downloaded package-installers, as running apt-get install cinnamon did not download anything but used locally stored data? – Byte Commander Jan 16 '15 at 19:48
  • apt-get clean should remove installation packages. May be you can look for them in /tmp – kirill-a Jan 16 '15 at 20:05
  • Thank you, but I ran sudo apt-get autoclean (spellling error in comment above), which obviously it did not delete them. I will try looking in /tmp later as I am currently surfing with another pc. – Byte Commander Jan 16 '15 at 20:11
  • No, autoclean removes packages that were previously installed but no longer needed, and clean removes temporary downloaded files. (/var/cache/apt/* folder) – kirill-a Jan 16 '15 at 20:15
  • So is sudo apt-get clean enough or do I have to add cinnamon or cinnamon* as another argument? – Byte Commander Jan 16 '15 at 20:33
  • No arguments, just sudo apt-get clean is enough. – kirill-a Jan 16 '15 at 20:38
  • Have you resolved the issue? – kirill-a Jan 19 '15 at 10:21
  • @kirill-a: No, still same problem. But only on my current user! If I create another user, that one can log in using Cinnamon as DE. – Byte Commander Jan 20 '15 at 16:41
  • It means there's something in your home folder still left. – kirill-a Jan 20 '15 at 16:46
  • Don't know what it should be! Even did a search for "cinnamon" and moved every folder and file into trash. – Byte Commander Jan 20 '15 at 17:01

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