Questions tagged [mate-desktop]
mate-desktop is an alternative desktop environment to traditional GNOME . It uses gtk+ components and has less memory power usage than GNOME uses. Most of the tools are named in spanish for e.g. caja which is supposed to be mean 'box' in Spanish and so on and so forth.
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MATE Desktop: misbehavior: alt-tab switching across workspaces
mate-desktop 1.26.1-1
6.4.12-arch1-11
Previous/desired behavior: alt-tab cycles through windows in workspace.
New behavior: alt tab cycles through windows of the the focussed application.
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How to install the System Monitor plugin for Mate panels?
I am using MX Linux 21.3 with Mate desktop. I have already installed mate-system-monitor (Mate System Monitor 1.24.1). This apparently does not give me the System Monitor plugin that I want for the ...
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Mate: How to change the default monitor that Chrome (or any app) opens on?
I am currently on MX Linux 21.3 and the desktop is Mate.
I have two monitors: an LCD TV and the laptop's built-in monitor. xrandr output is attached at the end. The LCD TV is at 1360x768 (primary) and ...
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How to let text editors (or Gtk text view component) respect my font settings for leading whitespace for correct indentation?
In the MATE desktop environment (Debian Linux 12), the width of the rendered leading spaces seems to be different according to different languages, in rich text like components. Including the text ...
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Mageia 8 mate, after a startup problem when the system reworks Alt F2 short cut and windows right up cross lost
After a problem on start, a soft was running and the system didn't start after the start page of Mageia 8. I fix this problem (Jackett.service).
After the restart, Alt F2 short cut, to open ...
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link cursor changed to hand for all browsers: how to change back
mate-desktop 1.26.1-1
6.3.9-arch1-1`
Mozilla Firefox 114.0.2
Brave Browser 114.1.52.129
Chromium 114.0.5735.198 Arch Linux
When hovering mouse over link on web page the cursor switches to hand. ...
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Multi-boot Linux-mate with Windows 7, 10 & 11
I have a mini-XTA box 64b Intel with UEFI disabled. It has been running Mate, W7 & W10 for some time just fine. Mate and W7 are on one SSD and W10 is on a second SSD. GRUB finds and starts these 3 ...
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Fedora's Gnome Terminal's Monospace font changed?
I was running Fedora 34 until now. Fedora 38 came out and I moved to that. I'm using MATE with Gnome Terminal. The font is set to Monospace 13 in both systems. Yet there's a difference in the font. ...
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What is the process for installing MATE desktop into Centos Stream 9?
From that little info that is available I gather that the group "MATE Desktop" has been renamed into something different. This is the group that many write-ups and videos show how to install....
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How to make terminal bell not so loud (quieter)?
I use Debian and Mate, also I use vim a lot.
There are a lot of answers about how to disable that loud beeping sound, it is called "terminal bell" in mate-terminal settings, but actually the ...
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Fedora 37 takes several minutes to "warm up" after logging in or resuming
I foolishly posted a related question on stackoverflow and was chastised for not asking a programming question. I hope this is the right place. I'm running Fedora 37. I prefer cinnamon but am ...
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How to reset Mint Mate desktop to factory default?
I need to reset Mate to its defaults, because I need to overwrite some of its configuration files that I believe are messed up (more details on the issue here).
I have renamed some of the config ...
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mintMenu quits unexpectedly each time I open a file
I am in Linux Mint with Mate desktop. Each time I open a file (text file, image file, libreOffice, mp3...) I receive the following error:
The problem does not occur if I open filebrowser windows.
If ...
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unable to adjust xterm pointer color
No matter what I set for pointerColor or pointerColorBackground, it remains black foreground and white background when hovering over xterm. I am using AWS Linux Workspace. All other settings are ...
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Fedora mate top bar disappeared, mouse right click does not respond
There is no top bar, i can not open terminal. Right clicking to desktop does not do anything. I can just write commands on tty. Suddenly happened. How can bring back the top/menu/task bar?
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How to set application installed via flatpak as default aplication for some type of files?
I have installed pycharm via flatpak on linux Mint 21.1. I want to open every .py file in the PyCharm application. But when I right click and choose "open with other application" PyCharm is ...
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Weird Artifacts on Thinkpad T60/Mobility Radeon X1400
I'm Running Arch (Kernel 5.15.86-1-lts) on my Thinkpad T60 with an AMD ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 GPU with the Radeon drivers installed. I'm using the Mate Desktop environment, but I've also ...
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Where do I define the path for a log of notifications send
I saw this question -
https://askubuntu.com/questions/770218/how-can-i-log-all-notify-send-actions
And while it has a beautiful script I do not understand where to define the path as well as how to ...
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linux mint mate panel: move time and date to the right of volume
I have Linux Mint 20.3 with MATE 1.26.0.
After messing with some external monitors, and the resolution, and which monitor is the main one, my panel got all messed up.
I managed to "move all the ...
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debian bullseye unable to unlock mate-screensaver
I'm running debian bullseye (was a fresh install but with old $HOME) and mate desktop.
Whenever I lock my Notebook with mate-screensaver; I can not unlock it neither with my main user nor an ...
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Resolution in Fedora MATE-Compiz Desktop 37 with AMD GPU via HDMI Stuck at 1024x768
Version and Desktop Information:
Fedora Release 37
Kernel Linux 6.0.7-301.fc37.x86_64 x86_64
Mate 1.26.0
lspci | grep VGA shows this:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX &...
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Linux pastes clipboard at "random" times
I'll be editing files, actively using a keyboard and sometimes a mouse, especially to switch windows and such. My programs open under edit suddenly have syntax errors which, ultimately come from ...
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How to change the color of selected text in Linux Mint MATE document viewer (xreader or evince)?
The selected text is always on this whitish color and become unreadable. I think changing the color of selection would work as well but I can't find any way to do it. I already tried changing the ...
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Duplicate only one of dual monitors on a Smart e-Blackboard
I am trying to set up the teacher's computer in a university room, having two identical displays on the table. One of these displays should be duplicated on the e-Blackboard connected via HDMI. ...
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Debian 11, MATE, crippled GUI yellow
Got dedicated server with preinstalled Debian 11 without GUI.
Have ssh connection to it.
Installed MATE.
apt install mate-desktop-environment lightdm
Made it login itself. Installed anydesk.
With ...
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TigerVNC Server Crashes when Client Connects
I've installed "tigervnc-standalone-server" on my Raspberry PI 3 model b+ with Ubuntu Mate "Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS" (not raspbian), configure and set-up vncserver as system service.
I'...
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mate-screenshot 1.26.0 suddenly producing corrupt screenshots?
Looking for first steps to diagnose this strange change in behavior: If I launch mate-screenshot and choose Copy to Clipboard, no program will paste the image, including:
The StackExchange form I'm ...
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KeePassXC suddenly always modal...possible causes?
Background: KeePassXC 2.6.6 is the latest version from June. My computer is newer than that, so this is the only version I've ever run on it, installed from deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/phoerious/...
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how can I stop mint/mate before the mate environment loads
I have a mint 20 install with mate. I ran out of disk space on the boot device. I booted off an external medium, erased files and now have a residual issue with Mate. I had the system configured to ...
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Mate DE Seems to have been broken by NVIDIA update
So, I just installed the latest edition of Nvidia 495 on my system, independent of any other upgrades. (I upgraded my kernel to version 5.4.0-92 beforehand, but that seemed to be working fine.) Now, I ...
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In Mint 20.2 with Mate, is it possible to close all the open windows of the File Manager?
I use Mint 20.2 with Mate File Manager.
I am new to Linux, and I am a long time user of MacOS.
I am looking for a way to close all the open windows of the File Manager with one command, possibly just ...
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Keyboard layout selector is missing from the indicator applet in ubuntu mate
I'm running Ubuntu Mate 20.04.03.
At some point in the past, it was possible to select between multiple keyboard layouts using a drop-down in the indicator-applet in the panel. This is no longer the ...
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MP3s/Youtube have stopped playing
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 with the Mate 1.8.2 desktop.
A couple of days ago, i had a strange issue where I couldn't play an mp4 video in Chrome. I rebooted and it was fine.
Then, at some point yesterday ...
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Mate desktop does not display properly in CBL-Mariner Linux
I have been running MS CBL-Mariner Linux in vmware and I am able to compile, install, and run NsCDE, Lxde, and xfce properly. The only issue I have is that when I downloaded and compiled and installed ...
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Linux Mate: keepassxc icon is stretched disproportionally. How to fix?
I am running a Linux Mint with Mate window manager on board. For some reason, some of the icons in the tray are resized to fit the panel height, others are not. Weird thing is happening to the ...
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Where does MATE keep the contents of its application drop down?
Fedora 34
Xfce 4.12
mate-desktop-1.26.0-1.fc34.x86_64
I have both Xfce and MATE installed on my desktop. I choose which one I want at logon.
I have a ton of intellectual property in Xfce's panel 0 ...
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Lost DVI output [closed]
I have tried to install the OpenRazer software for a keyboard in Linux Mint Mate, it worked well but after a reboot my secondary monitor connected with DVI port is not working anymore. I did not ...
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Disable font ligatures in pluma text editor or for the whole system
I have built a debian Bullseye live-dvd using live-config and live-build. The live-dvd has the MATE desktop environment and pluma text editor.
The problem is that pluma is doing font ligatures when I ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 with MATE desktop - task bar graphical corruption
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with the MATE desktop (Mate Desktop 1.8.2). (I use Ubuntu 16.04 for work since it's the version running on our server).
This problem only started happening in the last month or ...
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Linux - Holding down a key acts like key repeating
I'm running Debian 10 with MATE GUI and even when I disabled "Key presses repeat when key is held down", the key i'm holding still acts like I'm pressing it:
Are there any other option I'm ...
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How do you create a functionnal desktop folder after deleting it?
On Mate desktop I accidentally did a rm -rf * in home folder, now every file that I create inside this folder appears on the Desktop, I created a new Desktop folder but it's not enough to fix it.
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Sorry mime the second (mate-control-center vs. firefox)
My OS is Debian stretch (mate Desktop) Since about 2 years I have a problem with default setting for application browser(in mate-control-center) and firefox.
whenever I let firefox set itselfs as ...
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On Linux (Mint) MATE How Can I Make ALT+TAB Switch Between Only The Current Workspace's Windows
For some reason my version of Linux Mint MATE is configured to switch between applications on any workspace when I use ALT+TAB.
Simple question: is there any way to limit it to only switch between ...
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How to replace "Lock Screen" option with another command in MATE
I dont want to use mate-screensaver for several reasons, but I use the MATE desktop environment. I can replace the screensaver/lock screen with a different program to auto lock my screen, but in the &...
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MATE desktop background not redrawing
My MATE desktop 1.16.2 has stopped redrawing the background. The effect being that when I move a window, the locations where the desktop background would normally be shown, now shows smeared out ...
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Debian Mate Desktop Eclipse scoll bar slider button size huge
I am on Debian Buster, Mate Desktop theme Menta, OpenJdk 11.0.9.1, eclipse 2020-06.
My scroll bar sliders in eclipse are huge.
I tried resizing them by a custom gtk-3 css file but this did only ...
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Removing logout/restart from mate session
So I have an Ubuntu bionic with mate desktop and I'm trying to remove the restart/logout options from the menu. At the moment I'm using the Brisk menu but could switch to anything else.
I already ...
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How to fix no audio on Parrot Sec 4.10
I have no audio and I don't know why:
I tried:
sudo alsa force-reload
It returns:
sudo: alsa: command not found
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Run Linux with or without monitor
I am trying to run a program on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 that needs to have a graphical output to function. Sometimes I will attach a monitor and sometimes I will not. I would like to configure my computer(a ...
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Broken mimetype defaults? default apps dont work
On arch linux default programs do not matter.
When I open a file I downloaded from my browser, whether its a pic, archive or otherwise, It always just opens the file in another browser, which ...
