Setting up Cinnamon so that the boot disk is encrypted has been a source of frustration for 3 releases now.

Most recently I installed Saucy. As with Roaring it doesn’t seem to be possible to install onto an encrypted root successfully with the desktop installer. Everything seemed to work until it was time to install the boot loader. That seems to have failed and I wasn’t able to get it to work.

Ultimately, I went back to installing the server version, and then doing an apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. Although this seemed to work out of the chute, I had a few issues.

The configuration files for lightdm changed structure, and my “after the reinstall script” which endeavours to restore all the tweaks I have in config files, put a file named /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf out there, which seemed to croak lightdm. When I moved the file into the new lightdm.conf.d scheme that problem was solved. All that was about getting synergy client running as soon as the display manager comes up.
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