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 sddm

From a gnome tarball:

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

lightdm

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

Lock Password

If your screen lock is not accepting your password, try rebuilding PAM:

root # emerge -av1 pam