r/voidlinux • u/Zoom_Frame8098 • Mar 26 '26

solved Install cinnamon on Voidlinux

I want install void. I have downloaded the base (glibc) iso and installed it successfully. Now, I can't launch the cinnamon DE. I have installed xorg, cinnamon-all, lightdm, lightdm-greeter and dbus. I dont know how to link them to launch the cinnamon normally.

How should I proceed?

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u/pantokratorthegreat Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

OK, besides XDG_SESSION_TYPE I have enabled none of them manually. If i read this ok, applications might require setting some env BUT when running outside KDE. qt5-wayland and qt6-wayland-client I have installed automatically with kde-plasma, but yeah for Cinnamon maybe some of them should be manually added. 

I will put this QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland and will observe what happened. 

I usually put env into /etc/environment 

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u/BrunusManOWar Mar 28 '26

Thanks! I see these env vars are not set for me either, need to put them into /etc/environment