Sorry for late reply. I have to take the fedi in small doses. Maybe its a geographic or ISP block. Dont think you can do much about it except a VPN.

Its on https://retrogametalk.com/

You now need to create an account first. Once logged in a new section called “The Repo” will appear on the top menu, thats where cd-romance is.

With this command:

gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon

After I used the command the window list applet stopped working but a reboot fixed it

Problem has been solved. thanks for your help.

Nope :c I tested all the parameters mentioned in the thread and none worked. Thanks tho.