NAME

       cinnamon-settings - Configuration panel for cinnamon

SYNOPSIS

       cinnamon-settings [-h]
       cinnamon-settings MODULE [-t TAB]
       cinnamon-settings applets PANEL
       cinnamon-settings applets|desklets|extensions [UUID [-i INSTANCE]] [-t TAB_INDEX]
       cinnamon-settings applets|desklets|extensions UUID INSTANCE
       cinnamon-settings applets|desklets|extensions|themes [-t TAB]
       cinnamon-settings applets|desklets|extensions|themes -t download [-s SORT]

DESCRIPTION

       cinnamon-settings runs the graphical user interface allowing to configure Cinnamon.

       It  can  also  be  used  to run the graphical user interface allowing to configure a specific module, add
       applets to a panel, and manage xlets.

MODULE

       Specifying a module allows to configure it directly.
       The following modules are available. You can use name or synonym.
       The modules with * have a configuration interface with tabs. Each tab can be  directly  opened  (see  TAB
       section below).
       The  modules  with  **  need root rights to open their configuration interface. So the only tab that will
       always be open is the first one.

           NAME                      SYNONYMS
           applets*
           backgrounds*              background
           blueberry                 bluetooth
           calendar
           cinnamon-settings-users** users
           color                     colors
           default*
           desklets*
           desktop
           display                   screen, screens
           driver-manager**          drivers
           effects*
           extensions*
           fonts
           general
           gufw**                    firewall
           hotcorner                 hotcorners
           info                      infos
           keyboard*
           lightdm-settings**        login-screen
           mintlocale                language, locale
           mintlocale-im             input-method
           mintsources**             sources
           mouse*
           network                   networks
           notifications
           nvidia-settings           nvidia
           online-accounts           accounts
           panel                     panels
           power*
           privacy
           screensaver*
           sound*
           startup
           system-config-printer     printer, printers
           themes*
           tiling
           universal-access*         accessibility
           user                      me
           wacom                     tablet
           windows*                  window
           workspaces*

TAB and TAB_INDEX

       Here the modules whose configuration interface contains tabs. Specifying its name  or  index  by  the  -t
       option allows to open directly this tab in the configuration interface.

           NAME              TAB_NAME: TAB_INDEX, ...
           universal-access  visual: 0, keyboard: 1, typing: 2, mouse: 3
           applets           installed: 0, more: 1, download: 1
           backgrounds       images: 0, settings: 1
           default           preferred: 0, removable: 1
           desklets          installed: 0, more: 1, download: 1, general: 2
           effects           effects: 0, customize: 1,
           extensions        installed: 0, more: 1, download: 1
           keyboard          typing: 0, shortcuts: 1, layouts: 2
           mouse             mouse: 0, touchpad: 1,
           power             power: 0, batteries: 1, brightness: 2
           screensaver       settings: 0, customize: 1
           sound             output: 0, input: 1, sounds: 2,
                             applications: 3, settings: 4
           themes            themes: 0, download: 1, options: 2
           windows           titlebar: 0, behavior: 1, alttab: 2
           workspaces        osd: 0, settings: 1

PANEL

       PANEL is the panel on which the user want install some applets.  User desktop can have up to four panels.
       panel1 is the first panel (panel by default).
       panel2, panel3 and panel4 exist only if the user has created them.

UUID and INSTANCE

       The applets, desklets, extensions and themes are the xlets.

       Each xlet has an UUID (Universal Unique IDentifier). The structure of an UUID is xlet_name@author, except
       for themes.

       There are two kinds of xlets: System and Spices.

       System xlets are in /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/, /usr/share/cinnamon/desklets/  and  /usr/share/themes/;
       their UUID ends with '@cinnamon.org' except for themes. There is no system extension.

       Spices are xlets offered by developers to the Cinnamon team, which evaluates and validates them. Complete
       description of these Spices can be found at https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/.
       The Spices installed by user are in ~/.local/share/cinnamon (for applets, desklets and extensions) and in
       ~/.themes.

       INSTANCE  argument  is  reserved  to  developers.  When  an applet or desklet has multiple instances, the
       configuration interface of each of them can be directly opened by  this  INSTANCE  argument.  Users  have
       neither the possibility nor the need to know the value of INSTANCE.

SORT

       Possible choices are:
               - name or 0
               - score or 1 (default value)
               - date or 2
               - installed or 3
               - update or 4 (upgradable Spices first, then acts as date)

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 applets, desklets, extensions and themes modules.

       -t TAB, --tab=TAB
              Select the tab to open in the settings. Possible choices are:
               - A number from 0 to n-1, where n is the number of available tabs.
               - The name of the tab (see list below).

EXAMPLES

       To open System Settings:
              $ cinnamon-settings

       To open the printer settings:
              $ cinnamon-settings printers

       To open the settings of an installed applet, desklet or extension:
              $ cinnamon-settings TYPE UUID
              Examples:
              $ cinnamon-settings applets SpicesUpdate@claudiux
              $ cinnamon-settings desklets photoframe@cinnamon.org
              $ cinnamon-settings extensions watermark@germanfr

       To add some applets on the second panel (if exists):
              $ cinnamon-settings applets panel2

       To open the download tab of the applets settings:
              $ cinnamon-settings applets --tab=download
              or
              $ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1

       To  open  the  download  tab of a type of Spices (applets, desklets, extensions, themes), sorting them by
       'name', 'score', 'date', 'installed' or 'update', use the '--sort=' or '-s' argument:
              $ cinnamon-settings TYPE --tab=download --sort=SORT
              or
              $ cinnamon-settings TYPE -t 1 -s SORT
              where TYPE can be applets, desklets, extensions or themes
              and SORT can be name (or 0), score (or 1), date (or 2), installed (or 3), update (or 4)

              Example:
              $ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1 -s date

SEE ALSO

       cinnamon-menu-editor(1)

CONTRIBUTORS

       Claude Clerc (claudiux) and Nicolas Bourdaud (nbourdau).