linuxmint/cinnamon

View on GitHub

A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features.

Stars: 5.6k
Forks: 915
Open beginner issues: 8
Indexed issues: 827
Avg merge: 5d 22h
Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed

Beginner friendly Everything

Open All

827 open issues indexed

Severe screen tearing on modern Intel Iris Xe Graphics when X11 Fractional Scaling (150%) is enabled Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#14011 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Window decorations and panel input intermittently break after Cinnamon restart Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#14005 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Dragging maximized window across monitors with fractional scaling desyncs geometry and breaks minimize/maximize Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#14004 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Project website down Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#14002 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[BUG] power@cinnamon.org repeatedly re-adds contentSection in _updateProfile, causing Clutter-WARNING loop and compositor frame drops Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13998 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Keyboard layout falls back to "us" when localed is not available, ignoring the layout X is already using Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13997 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
No way out when the GL context cannot be created, now that the 2D sessions are gone Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13996 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Network applet: null SSID on resume crashes `_createSection`, leaking signal handlers into an unbounded GJS GC-callback log storm that freezes the desktop Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13994 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Events no longer on Calendar applet Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13983 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Backlight controls broken for Thinkpad T14s in Cinnamon 6.6.9 Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13982 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
[Grouped Window List] Ghost window and stuck thumbnail when moving mouse horizontally from preview to the actual window Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13980 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Thinkpad X11 — HDMI display cloning works only for the original user account Open

BUG

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13973 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Cinnamon Window List intermittently shows wrong icons for LibreOffice Writer and Calc Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13967 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
File navigation Context menu's submenu stays opening to the left once it needs to Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13964 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Can anyone guide how do i safely test my the changes i do to this repo on my linuxmint device without breaking anything Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13961 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
PopupMenuBase retains destroyed items and disconnects sibling state handlers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13956 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
SNI tray icon's context menu: Items' labels not aligned if some of them use icons and others don't Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13955 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2026
system tray icons loaded from GResource broken w/ Cinnamon Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13954 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Panel not reappearing after Alt+Tab Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13946 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
SONiX GK630: Backspace repeats continuously after a single keypress on X11 Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13944 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Touchpad requires two fingers after disconnecting external mouse when disabled-on-external-mouse is enabled Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13943 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Grouped Window List / WindowTracker: Gecko-based Flatpak browsers (Zen, Floorp, etc.) share taskbar icon due to identical WM_CLASS instance "Navigator" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13941 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
screenshot-key regression in Cinnamon 6.4.14 Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13938 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Cinnamon 6.4.14 event loop wedges after X11 overlay/window automation while Xorg stays responsive Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13937 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Cinnamon X11 flashes and window manager becomes unresponsive during GJS/Clutter paint() GC errors Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13935 · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Cinnamon extensions fail to refresh Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13928 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Qt: QSystemTrayIcon tooltip do not align left Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13923 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Date & Time: "Network time" uses the legacy csd backend whenever /usr/sbin/ntpd exists, and NTP errors are silently discarded Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13922 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Window focus behavior: opening file from Nemo switches workspace to existing window instead of current workspace Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13919 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Cinnamon crashes into fallback mode when reloading extensions while offline Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13918 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Cinnamon/Mint's Stance on LLM/AI Code Contributions? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13914 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2026
network applet: several small correctness bugs (dead loop, splice truncation, unresolvable icon name, missing return, WPA3 unclassified) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13912 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Automatic height limit for popup menu doesn't work Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13908 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
hovering over a preview in the panel draws it behind windows Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13905 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Switching workspace with primary and secondary monitor do not give consistent focus between monitor Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13903 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Captive portal login page does not automatically open on some WiFi networks Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13901 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Cinnamon freezes when chrome has a popup Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13893 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2026
metaWindow.get_workspace() is null on workspace switch, corrupting panel StIcon actors Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13891 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Network applet: clicking "Mobile Broadband" throws "array element (type filename) may not be null" for modems with no device path (MBIM/eSIM) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13885 · Opened Jul 19, 2026
cinnamon-settings keyboard crashes while parsing json Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13872 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Automatic Dark/Light Theme Switching Based on Time of Day Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13871 · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Word order issue in disk space notification message Open

BUG

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13869 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Applet/Desklet manager fails with 404 error when accessing API v2 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13867 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Feature Request: Add 'Rename User' option to Users & Groups settings Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13866 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Can't paste flatpak items in menu editor Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13864 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
coredumps core.csd-background from: "gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-uri..." Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13863 · Opened Jul 12, 2026
"Run with NVIDIA GPU" is a lie when dGPU is already the default. Open

BUG

linuxmint/cinnamon#13862 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Remove `G_GNUC_CONST` from *get_type declarations Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13861 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Night Light auto schedule uses timezone instead of geographic coordinates — incorrect sunrise/sunset for locations far from timezone center Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13859 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Flickering when Alt-Tab away from Fullscreen Games Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon#13858 · Opened Jul 10, 2026

linuxmint/cinnamon

Get new issues in your inbox