We can't wait any longer. Cinnamon 6.0 arrived on November 30, but waiting to take advantage of the monthly Linux Mint newsletter and kill two birds with one stone, both birds have flown away. Until now. And at the beginning of the month Clem usually comes out reporting on the news that has occurred in the month that has already fallen, and the most notable thing, if he doesn't say otherwise in the next few days or hours, is that there is a new version of his desktop.
As they already announced in "November", put quotes because the bulletin was published at the end of October, the most notable novelty is that Wayland login option has been included. It is marked "Experimental", and this session is not worth relying on production equipment. Right now it is present so that we can test and send error reports, but we must do it with caution, so that something like what we mentioned does not happen to us. complains the PCSX2 development team.
Most notable new features of Cinnamon 6.0…
…or the most outstanding of those known. Although It is already published on GitHub, there has not been an official statement yet, so it cannot be ruled out that they have left some surprises that they will communicate later. The highlights of Cinnamon 6.0 are:
- Experimental support for Wayland. It is currently only for testing, but supports HiDPI fractional scaling.
- Updated sound applet.
- Support for AVIF image format.
- New option for screen selection notification.
- New gesture to zoom on the desktop.
- Support for selecting colors in the screenshot service.
- 75% scale is back.
- The window opacity is available again.
- The stylus buttons can be disabled.
- The monitor used for notifications is now configurable.
- Menu apps can be edited with right click -> properties.
- Gestures: You can now specify when an action is activated.
- Grouped Window List: New option to not show anything when hovering the mouse over an application button.
Cinnamon 6.0 arrived about three weeks earlier than the version of the operating system for which it is intended, that is, Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia". It is already available in the repositories of some Linux distributions, such as Arch Linux.