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.