Hi everyone,
I want to share some experience with you about F43 Cinnamon spin. The conditions are:
Host: ThinkPadX1CarbonGen10 Kernel: 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64
bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.12 Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Cinnamon)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21CBCTO1WW v: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Integrated RGB Camera driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.20 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.6 renderer: Mesa Intel Iris
Xe Graphics (ADL GT2)
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
The issue was: When I entered my password at the login screen and hit enter I got a black screen with the mouse pointer only. I could change to a TTY and login in and work that way to reboot for example. This phenomenon vanished after I picked the Wayland entry from the login screens menu which has three entries: X11, Wayland and a third with “experimental” I think. So I switched from X11 classic to Wayland and logged in successfully with a full cinnamon desktop working. Then I realized I had the US keyboard layout which is not my default and whatever I tried I could not change this and all setting where set to my preferred language and keyboard layout which is German (QWERTZ). Nevertheless I could not get rid of the US-kb-layout. Then I logged off, changed the Cinnamon-setting back to X11 and everything was working as expected.
It’s strange behaviour, but I thought if anyone else has issues of that kind, it might be helpful to know.
Have a nice time
stippi
Edit: It was a fresh installation on a clean, brand new NVMe, by the way.