linuxmint/Cinnamon — Issue #490: Possible Cinnamon bug
Author: nefnef
Created: 2012-03-06 21:53:23+00:00
State: open

When I login using Cinnamon (and this only occurs with Cinnamon) some applications (e.g. Inkscape and Google Earth) create popups that persist, can't be moved and appear on all desktops, on top of any program I am using. See this picture, which I uploaded ( http://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=9773 ). This behaviour does not occur when using Mate or Gnome or even Cairo Dock alone; only with Cinnamon. The popups are removed when I close the program that creates the popup.

It is most annoying. I suspect it is a bug, since the noted applications work when I do not login with Cinnamon but, instead, using a different desktop environment.

I am using, if it matters, Mint 12. My machine is home made: an I5 processor on a gigabit Z68 type motherboard, Nvidia GeForce GTX 550Ti graphics card and 8 gb memory.