cinnamon VS execa

Compare cinnamon vs execa and see what are their differences.

cinnamon

A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features. (by linuxmint)
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cinnamon execa
118 20
4,374 6,349
0.8% -
9.2 9.6
7 days ago 5 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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cinnamon

Posts with mentions or reviews of cinnamon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-20.
  • The Bun Shell
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024
    Many mobile apps are written in JS/TS with React Native.

    Linux desktop environments like Cinnamon [1] also use JavaScript for the UI. Linux Mint with Cinnamon is invariably among the top 3 Linux desktop distributions (on distrowatch [2]).

    If anything, stats probably don't accurately capture how ubiquitous JS is.

    [1] https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon

  • GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge"
    1 project | /r/linux | 8 Dec 2023
    Will it be ported to Gutter and Cinnamon? There's a feature request open from 2022 but no answer https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/11141
  • Can't install Mint
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 6 Dec 2023
  • "Devs have better things to do"/"Linux is not Windows" excuses for bad UX
    1 project | /r/linuxsucks | 28 Nov 2023
  • Lobotomizing Gnome
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023
    I agree that there is a balance between customization and "cleanness" in design and implementation.

    However, I think the GNOME 3 and 4 designers went too far and alienated many users:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4...

    https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wte7tr/gnomes_design...

    https://linuxreviews.org/GNOME_Developers_have_Made_Their_Mo...

    https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming...

    When a designer's "coherent vision" eclipses the needs of the software's users then users get frustrated and either fork the project or go to another project. MATE (https://mate-desktop.org/), Cinnamon (https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon), and Unity (https://unityd.org/) exist largely because of how far the GNOME 3 designers went and how they were not willing to compromise their "coherent vision":

    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162

    https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910

    https://web.archive.org/web/20101129161856/http://www.pcworl...

  • Scale my screen greater than 200% ?
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 23 Jun 2023
  • Memory Leak in Cinnamon? (LMDE5 with default Cinnamon)
    1 project | /r/CinnamonDE | 21 Jun 2023
    I'm not sure what the devs want to see in a case like this, but I'd try to report it either on the LinuxMint-Forums or on the cinnamon issue tracker on github.
  • Fedora Cinammon and KDE, are they Wayland and secure boot on as Gnome?
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 17 Jun 2023
    And I read Cinnamon being not yet out with a Wayland session as meaning that it’s in the works, but according to the Cinnamon team, “We still don't have any specific plans for implementing Wayland support…and we're not in a hurry to do so” (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10787)
  • Wayland transition attempt, 2023 edition
    2 projects | /r/kde | 17 May 2023
    Mind you, it's much easier to crash a Wayland compositor than an X11 window manager because so much more has to be done in the compositor process; Cinnamon devs mentioned this flaw as a major reason they won't support Wayland yet, because if a panel widget crashes, it will also crash the entire desktop.
  • F38 (Cinnamon): mouse cursor not stopping at right edge of screen on HDMI tv
    2 projects | /r/Fedora | 30 Apr 2023
    I tried a few searches through open cinnamon issues but nothing really stood out yet OTOH, I know some of the recent changes to Nemo/Cinnamon had caused issues which I've run into myself in F37 (such as the new themes, some Nemo drag-and-drop issues, and another issue with Nemo's input focus when clicking the toolbar button to a new folder while you are renaming a file) so still plausible this could be a Cinnamon-specific bug.

execa

Posts with mentions or reviews of execa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-09.
  • Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    I’m partial to Sindre Sorhus’ execa, this document outlines the differences:

    https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/blob/main/docs/scripts...

  • Execa: Process Execution for Humans in Node.js
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024
  • The Bun Shell
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024
    Yeah, or over https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?

    And given the existence of those npm packages, is there any aspect of Bun Shell that required it to be built into the Bun runtime instead of published to npm?

    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024
    For something which works across all JS runtimes (Deno, Node) and achieves basically the same, check out the popular JS library Execa[1]. Works like a charm!

    [1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa

  • Building Reactive CLIs with Ink - React CLI library
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Nov 2023
    To simplify the process of running the commands, I will use execa - abstraction library on top of Node.js child_process methods.
  • How to run DB migrations in CICD Pipeline
    2 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 21 Apr 2023
    Hello, this is an interesting problem. At https://stacktape.com (where we're creating a developer-friendly abstraction of AWS), we're recommending 2 options: - use a "deployment script" (basically a custom-resource lambda function that runs during the CloudFormation deployment). You can install prisma into it, and then execute the migration command from the lambda function using something like execa, if you're using Javascript/Typescript. You can easily do this with Stacktape anytime. - use a bastion (EC2) instance (deployed to the the VPC where your RDS db is). The cheapest instances cost ~4.5$/month, so it shoudln't be too costly. You can also securely connect to it using EC2 instance connect, that leverages IAM to grant permissions to connect to it. (this is something we're currently implementing as Stacktape, and will be ready in ~2 weeks).
  • Fluent shell scripts with JavaScript
    1 project | /r/javascript | 13 Mar 2023
  • Testing in ReScript
    8 projects | dev.to | 2 Jan 2023
    For FE, it’s usually Cypress or Playwright; for BE, it’s to run a server and start sending requests; for CLI, I like the tool called execa.
  • How to use execa@6 with NestJs?
    2 projects | /r/node | 6 Jan 2022
    Since version 6 execa is pure ES module. An attempt to import a package into NestJS project results in an error:
  • Getting vim ex command output without a TTY?
    1 project | /r/vim | 14 Dec 2021
    Essentially when I run this from my shell I get a listing of keymaps configured for vim. However, when I run it from a program without a PTY or TTY (e.g., via Rust's Command or Node's execa) I get an exit code of 0 and no output.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cinnamon and execa you can also consider the following projects:

ulubis - A Wayland compositor written in Common Lisp

zx - A tool for writing better scripts

asus-fan-control - Fan control for ASUS devices running Linux

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

mint-themes - Mint-X, Mint-Y..

nodegit - Native Node bindings to Git.

smplayer - Free Media Player for Windows, Linux and Mac OS with YouTube support.

schemapack - Create a schema object to encode/decode your JSON in to a compact byte buffer with no overhead.

roll20-character-sheets - Character sheet templates created by the community for use in Roll20 VTT. Submit a ticket at roll20.net/help if critical hotfixes are to be requested.

hypernova - A service for server-side rendering your JavaScript views

Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux

nan - Native Abstractions for Node.js