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Hi. I'm thinking about migrating to MATE because the Cinnamon desktop isn't what it used to be anymore but the default appearance of the panel is a major turn off for me. So I need to ask: is there an applet for MATE that works the same as GroupWindowList for Cinnamon - icon only and displaying numbers for the number of windows of the same app (see the screenshot)?

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In my testing on Artix Linux, I found MATE is using the same RAM as LXQt+OpenBox, while LXQt+KWin would use more RAM than MATE. XFCE today is using a lot more RAM than all of those. with MATE 1.28 I also got much friendly UI and better porformance than XFCE 4.18 (confirmed with benchmark and gaming fps).

OS was Artix+dinit with an old 8GB ram system (on 16GB system all the options will use a bit more ram than 8GB for sure )

DE:

LXQt+OpenBox idle at 357MB

MATE+Marco idle at 357MB sometimes even lower

LXQt+KWin idle at 383MB

XFCE idle at 436MB

Bonus:
https://github.com/getsolus/brisk-menu this is a must for MATE, like it.

Cons would be XFCE has a lot more distro adoption/as default , a lot more users, a lot more developers. A lot more features. But this could also be MATE's pro, because XFCE has baked in so many features that you would not use, and rapid development/changes could break things much more often

If you take a look at my profile, you'd see a similar question regarding XFCE. Now, I am using MATE on Arch Linux and that problem still persists.

If you look at both images, you would be able to see that the menubars on those windows are supposed to be on the panel, but thing is that they aren't.

On XFCE, it nicely put the menubar applets on the panel as how I wanted to. I need to know how you can do the same but on MATE.

I am using `vala-panel-appmenu-mate`^(AUR) for the global menu.

Hi I don't like caja much as it was slow when browsering a folder with huge numbers of files/images. I like MATE desktop and same time I want to use Dolphin file manager from kde team.

I have encountered a problem that though I have set preferred application for image, double click in dolphin always ask me to use which application to open. Installed applications for images are not listed here. Even I manually type say

/usr/bin/qmigv or xnviewmp, and tick remember. It will not remember.

I guess its compatibilty issue between MATE and dolphin. Because preferred application for image works in caja / thunar.

Is there a way to get those two working together happily?

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Am hoping someone "official" from MATE sees this and replies ...

First, go here: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/what-is-this-new-bug-in-panel/28147

Second, please look at the pictures I've included below:

Look at the boundary around the icon. Is this a new thing for MATE?

Look at the blank space with a boundary around it. This is definitely a bug.

The thread link I shared from the Ubuntu MATE forum explains more. Is this a new thing with MATE? Is this intentional? Or a bug/regression? Would love to use MATE, but ... this wacky behavior doesn't help at all. Really hoping someone "official" from MATE can shed some light on everything. Thanks very much.

EDIT: Please also be sure to note the other pictures I included about the Firefox icon, etc.

EDIT # 2: Tagging u/bickman2k and u/flexiondotorg (Martin, I sincerely hope you reply - thanks).

EDIT # 3: Has anyone else seen this behavior, too, in MATE? Please report it if you have ...

I've recently installed GhostBSD with MATE desktop environment.

I find MATE to be very beautiful but am finding that the lock screen clock shows a date/time which is 15 hours ahead of my actual date/time which I set up by clicking on the date/time shown on the right hand top corner of the MATE screen (on the top panel). Is there a way to fix this?

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The letters have been combined for a while and I don't know why it happens, what should I do?

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i'm using this theme https://www.mate-look.org/p/1701546/

Running different flavors (mint, unbuntu, popos, etc....) have different releases of Mate. I'd like to run mint or popos with the newest MATE, but haven't found a repo exactly to make it an easier upgrade. How are others staying current? Like 1.28 would be great right now. :)

The title.

Am wanting to continue using Compiz, but Wayland is a Compiz killer. Does anyone have any tips for disabling Wayland so as to be able to use Compiz on x11? Am a bit of a noob when it comes to the whole wayland-vs-x11 landscape, but am wanting to find a way to make this happen. I hate to have to leave Fedora for something like Sparky (which still supports Compiz). Compiz is the most advanced work-flow manager I've ever come across and losing it is close to a deal breaker.

Fedora 40 Mate

Some inxi spew: Kernel 6.9.9-200.fc40.x86_64

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1 driver: X:

loaded: modesetting dri: swrast gpu: virtio-pci resolution: 1531x900~75Hz

EDIT: typo corrections

Just thinking which one of them are you guys using? Ubuntu mate , mint mate , sparky mate or debian mate. Also if you guys used any of the above stated distros , how was the experiance.

Manjaro removed the Mate desktop version, making a mistake in my opinion. Opensuse does not give the possibility to install it immediately. Debian from an old version 1.26 also on Sid. Let's hope that Mint doesn't close its Mint version, now I'm on edevouros with Mate 1.2.8.2, it's increasingly difficult to find a version that includes Mate desktop by default, I don't even consider ubuntu-mate, such a flawed version, full of bugs .

Hi all. I recently installed Fedora 40 MATE onto my ThinkPad T480, but one thing that for some reason I am not understanding is how to suspend the laptop after a period of inactivity. See, I can go into control panel and change when the laptop sleeps and when the display turns off, but for whatever reason this is what happens:

• My laptop screen will either turn off, but not lock, meaning a movement of the mouse or keyboard will immediately turn the screen back on
• My laptop will go to the login page, but will display a black screensaver, and not actually sleep or turn off the display, which causes battery life to be wasted

I am not sure if I am missing an obvious "Suspend after XX minutes" setting, but any insight would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

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I'm running Mate Desktop Environment 1.26.0 on Pop!_OS 22.04.

I'd like to change the colors that show as I alt-tab through open apps.

The highlight color is too similar to the background color and I can't distinguish between the selected and not-selected apps.

I'm using a custom combination of themes (Adapta-Eta for Controls, Adapta-Nokto for Window Border).

I explored the css files associated with these themes, but I don't know what to change or where to change it.

In /usr/share/themes, the Adapta-Eta theme directory has this structure:

Adapta-Eta/
├── gnome-shell
├── gtk-2.0
├── gtk-3.0
├── gtk-3.22
├── gtk-3.24
├── index.theme
├── metacity-1 -> ../Adapta/metacity-1
├── plank -> ../Adapta/plank
└── telegram -> ../Adapta/telegram

The gnome-shell and gtk* directories have a bunch of css files that look like the they hold the things I need to change, but don't know which file(s) hold the selector(s) that I need to change. Or, maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

I found a few threads out there, but they didn't narrow this down enough that I could efficiently do some trial-and-error.

Any insights are much appreciated!

I have a problem launching Menu apps that need Admin-privileges. Stuff like Synaptic, but even AbiWord has joined that madness too. Not sure if it is MATE or Mint but is danged annoying.

They just show the "wait" spinner for about 20-seconds then nothing. I can run them OK from the CLI with "sudo."

I used sudo users-admin dialog and it shows "account-type" as custom and it will not allow me to change that or any of the other options.

I just checked Mint+MATE-21.2 and the same thing. Update, upgrade and dist-upgrade have not changed things.

Hi everyone, so I am new to this sub Reddit and relatively new to mate and I would like some assistance if anyone can help me so I’m wondering is there a place online somewhere that I can find all of the mate documents available in the yelp help browser? Some of the reasons I’m asking is because I am completely blind and I use orca with mate because I am completely blind and for the most part things seem to work pretty well, but for whatever reason in the yelp help browser, I seem to be running into some accessibility issues when I get into an article to read I can’t figure out where the text is to listen to the article so if anyone could help me, I would really appreciate it. Thank you

[Edit- solved, see below]

Running the MATE Spin of Fedora 39. My ergonomic keyboard has "Insert" on the same key as F12. So I can only use Shift+Insert if the "Fn" lock is on, which unfortunately breaks all the other Function keys I do use. What would be the best way to make it so Shift+F12 would perform the paste operation?

I can't see a way to do it in the Keyboard Shortcuts app. Would using xmodmap be the right way? Or something else?

Hello,

I’m running MATE Desktop with Trisquel on a MacBook. Received OSCP error in Firefox and Abrowser, unable to access internet. Online article says to fix time and date. Time on MATE Desktop is off by almost 12 hours.

In the Time and Date Manager I receive an error called ‘Set Ntp sync’ where it says NTP not supported. The Time HMS boxes aren’t responsive.

How can I change the time? Should I consult Trisquel help change it in Konsole?

vivaldi stopped running after TW update to mate 1.28 on 4/10/24. When starting in terminal, the error messages are shown below.

(base) tom@localhost:~> vivaldi
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/virtio_gpu_drv_video.so init failed
[7858:7858:0410/133535.192861:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(196)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
[7803:7896:0410/133535.217924:ERROR:login_database.cc(1046)] Password decryption failed, encryption_result is 2
[7803:7803:0410/133535.280831:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)] GLib-GObject: cannot register existing type 'GtkWidget'
[7803:7803:0410/133535.280861:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)] GLib-GObject: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
[7803:7803:0410/133535.280867:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)] GLib-GObject: cannot register existing type 'GtkBuildable'
[7803:7803:0410/133535.280872:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)] GLib-GObject: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed
[7803:7803:0410/133535.280877:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)] GLib: g_once_init_leave_pointer: assertion 'result != 0' failed
[7803:7803:0410/133535.280880:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)] GLib-GObject: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
[7803:7803:0410/133535.280884:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)] GLib-GObject: g_type_register_static: assertion 'parent_type > 0' failed

Vivaldi runs fine in kde desktop.

Anyone have vivaldi running in mate 1.28?

I've got a very odd issue with MATE, where it starts up with a weird display setting that only occupies a fraction of the screen, and no window manager. I can fix it after startup by running a trivial script:

xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 1.5
nohup xmonad --replace &

but i have not been able to figure out why it is happening or where to fix it properly. A new user account did not display the problem, so I figure if I can just get rid of all my settings the issue should resolve itself.

Someone here testing this?

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-wayland-session

Apparently, Mate 1.28 has been released: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/releases/tag/v1.28.1

I haven't seen any announcements yet.

Does anyone know if there are release notes somewhere or if they plan to include this on any upcoming distro release?

Hi there! Since I couldn't find a generic contact email in your website, I'm leaving a comment here.

I'll get straight to the point: The fact that MATE is so configurable, even allowing me to use a window manager of my choice, has been a godsend for me.

Add to that the amount of super useful write-up around the web for how-to's, the simple back-up and restore with dconf, and the usefulness of the control center and you have what seems to me like the best experience linux desktop has to offer (outside of the typical Windows/MacOS wannabe canned solutions like gnome or KDE, which I'm not a fan of).

Since I started fucking around with WM, I've always missed the comfort of having all relevant settings in one place, as well as the occasional GUI for navigating settings I'm unfamiliar with.

However, I just couldn't go back to a mouse centric workflow (not least because of my wrists).

Plus, my WM config is under VCS, which is super important since I use multiple machines and often need to do clean re-installs.

I have tried achieving this with other DEs but without much luck.

Somehow I missed the fact (until recently) that I could have the best of both worlds just by using MATE with my usual i3WM.

This has been an absolute game changer and I wanted to just say thanks for supporting this level of customizability.

Most users will probably never notice and of those who do only some will care.

But for those of us who do, it's really appreciated.

Here's hoping (although I think I'm being a bit too optimistic here) that whenever Wayland actually takes X's place, this kind of functionality won't be lost.

Have a great week!