cinnamon-settings1

Usage

Overview

cinnamon-settings runs the graphical user interface allowing to configure Cinnamon. Command line arguments can be used to open a specific module and even a tab within that module.

Run cinnamon-settings --help to see a list of modules.
Run cinnamon-settings MODULE --tab help to see the available tabs for a particular module.

Panel

When the applets or panel module are specified, PANEL can specify the id of a specific panel operate on.

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, themes and actions modules.

-t TAB, --tab=TAB

Select the tab to switch to in the module. Specifying --tab=help will print a module's available tab names then exit. Not all modules have multiple tabs.

-p PANEL, --panel=PANEL

Select the panel ID to operate on. Only valid with the applets and panel modules.

Examples

To open System Settings:

$ cinnamon-settings

To add some applets on the second panel (if it exists):

$ cinnamon-settings applets --panel 2

To open the download tab of the applets module:

$ cinnamon-settings applets --tab=download
or
$ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1

To open the applets download tab and sort by 'name':

$ cinnamon-settings applets --tab=download --sort=name
or
$ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1 -s 0

Contributors

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