---
name: "cinnamon-settings"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cinnamon"
version: "6.6.9-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cinnamon-settings"
---

# cinnamon-settings(1)

Configuration panel for cinnamon

## NAME

cinnamon-settings - Configuration panel for cinnamon

## SYNOPSIS

**cinnamon-settings \[-h\]**\
 **cinnamon-settings** MODULE \[**-t** TAB\]\
 **cinnamon-settings** **applets**\|**panel** \[**-p** PANEL\]\
 **cinnamon-settings** **applets**\|**desklets**\|**extensions**\|**themes**\|**actions** \[**-t** TAB\]\
 **cinnamon-settings** **applets**\|**desklets**\|**extensions**\|**themes**\|**actions** -t download **\[-s SORT\]**

## DESCRIPTION

**cinnamon-settings runs the graphical user interface allowing to configure Cinnamon. Command line arguments can be used to open a specific module and even a tab within that module.**\

**Run cinnamon-settings --help to see a list of modules.**\
 **Run cinnamon-settings MODULE --tab help to see the available tabs for a particular module.**

## PANEL

**When the applets or panel module are specified, PANEL can specify the id of a specific panel operate on.**

## SORT

- **Possible choices are:**

   **- name or 0**\
  \
    **- score or 1 (default value)**\
  \
    **- date or 2**\
  \
    **- installed or 3**\
  \
    **- update or 4 (upgradable Spices first, then acts as date)**

## OPTIONS

**The following options are supported:**

- **-h, --help**

  **Print a help text describing the supported command-line options, and then exit.**

- **-s SORT, --sort=SORT**

  **Specific to the 'download' tab (see below) for applets, desklets, extensions, themes and actions modules.**

- **-t TAB, --tab=TAB**

  **Select the tab to switch to in the module. Specifying --tab=help will print a module's available tab names then exit. Not all modules have multiple tabs.**

- **-p PANEL, --panel=PANEL**

  **Select the panel ID to operate on. Only valid with the applets and panel modules.**

## EXAMPLES

- **To open System Settings:**

  **$ cinnamon-settings**

- **To add some applets on the second panel (if it exists):**

  **$ cinnamon-settings applets --panel 2**

- **To open the download tab of the applets module:**

  **$ cinnamon-settings applets --tab=download**\
   **or**\
   **$ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1**

- **To open the applets download tab and sort by 'name':**

  **$ cinnamon-settings applets --tab=download --sort=name**\
   **or**\
   **$ cinnamon-settings applets -t 1 -s 0**\

## SEE ALSO

[**cinnamon-menu-editor**(1)](/cinnamon-menu-editor/1.md)

## CONTRIBUTORS

**Claude Clerc (claudiux) and Nicolas Bourdaud (nbourdau).**