Cinnamon colored red in Debian ppc64

[Jeroen Diederen]

Hi,

I am playing around in a Cinnamon desktop on my iMac G5 running ppc64 Debian and I found out that the panel and menu are all red colored. Can it have something to do with bad graphics rendering ? I have a Radeon card X600 XT in this machine.

Jeroen

 

[MoerBoer]

That looks like panel settings going on there.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

@MoerBoer on what machine did you make that screenshot ?

 

[MoerBoer]

That's on my MacPro 5.1 running Manjaro with Cinnamon.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

I am on an iMac G5....that explains...I am building LMDE4

 

[MoerBoer]

Hehe, I know. But when you right click on the panel and go to the settings, the panel changes to red. This is a Cinnamon "thing". So maybe check that.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

It stays red all the time, even if you open and close panel settings.
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Linux Mint Cinnamon now....

 

[timidpimpin]

I think it's your system trying to put up a red flag, and tell you that Cinnamon is too bloated for it. Seriously though... it's far too bloated for older hardware. And I personally wouldn't even run it on a threadripper.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

I am not building it for a G5....

 

[MoerBoer]

@Jeroen Diederen - You don't have Panel Edit Mode maybe on by default?

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

I really don´t know. I don´t know where to look. Cinnamon was just installed, never opened any settings.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

I think it's your system trying to put up a red flag, and tell you that Cinnamon is too bloated for it. Seriously though... it's far too bloated for older hardware. And I personally wouldn't even run it on a threadripper.

BS Linux Mint Cinnamon runs fine on an Intel Duo Core from 2006

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

FYI
I built the whole cinnamon desktop from the ground up, using linux mint debbie 4 sources and I end up with the exact same result. I now know that is has nothing to do with a bug in cinnamon as found in Debian sid ppc64. It has to do with the graphics card in my iMac G5, being unable to render cinnamon in a normal way. Maybe also because G5 is not good enough.

 

[timidpimpin]

BS Linux Mint Cinnamon runs fine on an Intel Duo Core from 2006

It is widely considered one of the more bloated DE on Linux. So it's not "BS" just because it seems fine in your perception of things.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

For the record, I am experiencing the same behavior in Void ppc64 Linux. Firefox ESR works better in Void as compared to Debian ppc64. No color problems. Pretty impressive distribution!