Comment 40 for bug 1650977

I have seen that Cinnamon 3.4 is out and that it should have a desktop grid for rasterizing it's icons.
So I searched the internet for a way to upgrade my cinnamon 3.2.2 to 3.4 on my test Mint 18.1 box but apparently that is not yet possible unless you want to build the packages yourself.

There is a way to easily install it on Ubuntu though and so I tried that.
I installed Ubuntu 17.04 and installed cinnamon 3.4 on it (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/05/install-cinnamon-3-4-ubuntu-ppa).

I was really, really pleasantly surprised because it does not only have a good working grid but my dual-screen setup also worked as you might expect.
The primary display does not have to be set as the left one but it also works correctly if you set your right display as your primary display.

Furthermore, you can place icons on both displays if you make the setting that the icons can be shown on all displays of cause and after a reboot all icons will come back in the same place where they were when you shutdown you system.
Also I saw that both my screens in my dual screen setup have their own settings.
That means you can set your primary display to not automatically arrange your icons but align them to the grid but set the other display to automatically arrange the icons so they all align top left down and so on.

Now they say that cinnamon 3.4 is not a major but a bug fix release with no major changes.
I totally disagree because it solves all the bugs as far as I can tell that are mentioned in this bug and adds lots of options on top of that.

From cinnamon version 3.4 and up, cinnamon this will be the leading GUI for any Linux distribution that will be ahead of KDE, GNOME, Unity and any other one.
Cinnamon 3.4 apparently is a part of Linux Mint 18.2 so that will be one upgrade I will be looking forward to.