Cinnamon

Cinnamon

To install from a minimal tarball, and build up cinnamon the merge commands are:

root # ego profile flavor desktop
root # ego profile mix-in cinnamon
root # emerge alsa-utils cinnamon xorg-x11 networkmanager lightdm

From a gnome tarball:

root # ego profile mix-in cinnamon
root # emerge cinnamon lightdm

lightdm

Loading through Package:Lightdm is the easiest route to booting cinnamon. You must select cinnamon session in the top right corner of lightdm the first time it is loaded.

Lock Password

If your screen lock is not accepting your password try rebuilding pam:

root # emerge -av1 pam