Cinnamon: Option to disable popup menu animations in 3.2

[jaszhix]

I'm not sure if this has to do with new API changes, but is there a way to disable the slide up/down animation for panel popups? I prefer no animations, and always disable window animations, but it doesn't seem to be disabling popup animations.

[leigh123linux]

Does disabling 'effect on menus' in effects tab help?

[jaszhix]

No it doesn't.

[jaszhix]

I see this in .xsession-errors when I toggle that option, though:

(cinnamon:2221): St-CRITICAL **: st_widget_get_theme_node called on the widget [0x561c13ce4ff0 StScrollView.popup-sub-menu] which is not in the stage.

[JosephMcc]

Turning off "Effects on menus" in Cinnamon Settings->Effects should do exactly that. It does here.

[jaszhix]

I built Cinnamon from the git source a few days ago, then switched to the nightly PPA. Do these versions look current?

jason@jason-virtual-machine ~ $  dpkg -l | grep cinnamon
ii  cinnamon                                     3.2.1-20161111040014-xenial                amd64        Modern Linux desktop
ii  cinnamon-common                              3.2.1-20161111040014-xenial                all          Cinnamon desktop (Common data files)
ii  cinnamon-control-center                      3.2.0-20161111013030-xenial                amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
ii  cinnamon-control-center-data                 3.2.0-20161111013030-xenial                all          configuration applets for Cinnamon - data files
ii  cinnamon-control-center-dbg                  3.2.0-20161111013030-xenial                amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop - debug symbols
ii  cinnamon-desktop-data                        3.2.0-20161111000245-xenial                all          Common files for Cinnamon desktop apps
ii  cinnamon-doc                                 3.2.1-20161111040014-xenial                all          Cinnamon documentation
ii  cinnamon-l10n                                3.2.1-20161111040122-xenial                all          Translation files for the Cinnamon desktop
ii  cinnamon-screensaver                         3.2.0-20161111013004-xenial                all          Cinnamon screen saver and locker
ii  cinnamon-screensaver-webkit-plugin           3.2.0-20161111013004-xenial                all          Webkit plugin for cinnamon-screensaver
ii  cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin                3.2.0-20161111013004-xenial                all          XScreensaver plugin for cinnamon-screensaver
ii  cinnamon-session                             3.2.0-20161111043005-xenial                amd64        Cinnamon Session Manager - Minimal runtime
ii  cinnamon-session-common                      3.2.0-20161111043005-xenial                all          Cinnamon Session Manager - common files
ii  cinnamon-settings-daemon                     3.2.0-20161111004505-xenial                amd64        daemon handling the Cinnamon session settings
ii  cinnamon-settings-daemon-dev                 3.2.0-20161111004505-xenial                amd64        Headers for building applications communicating with cinnamon-settings-daemon
ii  cinnamon-themes                              2016.05.03                                 all          Cinnamon themes
ii  gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0                   3.2.0-20161111000245-xenial                amd64        Introspection data for CinnamonDesktop
ii  libcinnamon-control-center-dev               3.2.0-20161111013030-xenial                amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
ii  libcinnamon-control-center1:amd64            3.2.0-20161111013030-xenial                amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
ii  libcinnamon-desktop-dbg:amd64                3.2.0-20161111000245-xenial                amd64        Cinnamon library for loading .desktop files - debug symbols
ii  libcinnamon-desktop-dev                      3.2.0-20161111000245-xenial                amd64        Cinnamon library for loading .desktop files - development files
ii  libcinnamon-desktop4:amd64                   3.2.0-20161111000245-xenial                amd64        Cinnamon library for loading .desktop files
ii  libcinnamon-menu-3-0                         3.2.0-20161111012008-xenial                amd64        Cinnamon implementation of the freedesktop menu specification
ii  libcinnamon-menu-3-dev                       3.2.0-20161111012008-xenial                amd64        Cinnamon implementation of the freedesktop menu specification
ii  libcscreensaver0:amd64                       3.2.0-20161111013004-xenial                amd64        library and introspection data used only by cinnamon-screensaver
ii  mint-artwork-cinnamon                        5.2                                        all          Default artwork for the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint
ii  mint-info-cinnamon                           2016.01.11                                 amd64        Necessary information about the Linux Mint release and edition.
ii  mint-user-guide-cinnamon                     18                                         all          The Linux Mint User Guide - Cinnamon Editio

[jaszhix]

Is "Effects on menus" a new option? I see fade effects on scrollboxes.

[JosephMcc]

Ah, I think I see what the problem is. Turn "Window effects" on. This will show you the "Effects on menus" option. Turn it off, then try disabling window effects. Turning off the window effects setting should be disabling the effects on menu option as well and it may not be. If that's the case, it's a bug we need to fix.

[jaszhix]

Ahh, you're right! I've been copying my home folder for years and I guess I forgot that option exists. Thank you guys for the help.

[JosephMcc]

I'm going to go ahead and reopen this. You did stumble on a bug on our side in the settings. We need to fix that so others don't stumble into the same issue.