cinamon-3.2.8-alt1 and GNOME 3.24 don't play well together resulting in particular in black desktop background; maintainer has suggested a workaround in the mean time: start dconf-editor and append these to org.cinnamon.cinnamon-session.autostart-blacklist until cinnamon update arrives: 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.A11yKeyboard', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.A11ySettings', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Clipboard', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Datetime', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Mouse', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Orientation', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.PrintNotifications', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Rfkill', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.ScreensaverProxy', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sharing', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Smartcard', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sound', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XRANDR', 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings' This has hit alt-p8-cinnamon-20170912 starterkit unfortunately.
It has turned out that gnome-settings-daemon has been pulled in by gnome-session (required in its turn by gnome-color-manager and gnome-power-manager); fixed by gnome-color-manager-3.24.0-alt2.M80P.1 and gnome-power-manager-3.24.0-alt1.M80P.1.