Mate Desktop Environment - GNOME2 fork

[stovenator]

Just out of curiosity, do you think it would be a wise idea to remove all of nautilus when putting in MATE so there's no conflict of what needs to have dominance on or in the system...and/or gnome...or would that be a bad idea...all comments are welcome....thanks and cheers


Andrew

Nautilus is still on the system, as Gnome3 is installed on your system. So if you have not updated the Mate preferred applications (System->Preferences->Preferred Applications->System->File Manager) to use Caja, you may still be using Nautilus for some things. If you were to completely remove Nautilus, and then open a session in Gnome3, things would break (as the desktop requires Nautilus).

In actuality, removing Nautilus would trigger apt to uninstall all of Gnome3.

[andrew5859]

Ok.....that's out of the way...everything is up and running, but I did notice that when I minimize a widow, it just goes away into the bottom corner of the screen....it's not docked anywhere....why is that...is there a way to fix it..thank you guys for all your assistance...I really do appreciate it

[andrew5859]

Nevermind....got it figured out...sorry

[AlexSL]

Thank you for fixing my bugs, but some bugs not fixed yet.

1. In latest MATE (from tridex repo) stickynotes applet can't save a note. I can make new note, but when I reboot or poweroff all notes are lost. In Gnome 2 this applet work fine. This bug is very important for me.
2. In mate-terminal when I open any man page, I can't scroll it with mouse wheel. I can scroll with mouse wheel in mate-terminal, but not in man page. In gnome-terminal I can scroll man page with mouse wheel.

Please correct this bugs.

PS: I use Linux Mint 12 64-bit with MATE from tridex repo.

[AstroGeek]

I found a solution to the resize arrows on the panel:

Add this to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. Create the the file if you don't have one (I didn't have one in my Linux Mint 12 MATE, so I created it).

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style "default-style"
{
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 0
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 0
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"


Now the resize arrows on the bottom-right of the MATE panels are gone Thanks goes out to stinkeye on the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1771057) for the tip.

Thank you for that! I've been waiting and hoping that I'd be able to get rid of those eventually!

[andrew5859]

Can't seem to be able to install mate-core on mint 12 lisa 32 bit...there are a whole lot of dependency issues going on...anyone have any ideas.....and are there any additional repos besides the tridex.net repo...cheers


Andrew

[stefano-k]

Can't seem to be able to install mate-core on mint 12 lisa 32 bit...there are a whole lot of dependency issues going on...anyone have any ideas.....and are there any additional repos besides the tridex.net repo...cheers

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/doku.php/d ... linux_mint

edit /etc/apt/preferences

[andrew5859]

Thanks stefano.....I completely forgot about that...I appreciate it greatly....cheers

[bdantas]

mate-screensaver was working fine until I did some updates recently. I'm just using one of the default screensavers (the artsy blue squares). Now, after my computer has been inactive for the designated time (5 minutes), the screen starts to go dark but then the desktop shows up again instead of the screensaver starting. It seems that MATE is interpreting the screensaver coming on as somehow representing user activity?! Does anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it?

Another bug I've noticed is that sometimes when caja is open and showing a folder's contents and I type something to search for a file, caja crashes (i.e., it disappears and I am back to the desktop). It never crashes when I type only the first letter of what I am looking for, but with 2 or 3 letters it crashes sometimes. This didn't happen this morning (I am at work now and don't have my laptop with Mint 12 MATE 64 bit with me) so maybe the recent caja update fixed it.

[stefano-k]

Another bug I've noticed is that sometimes when caja is open and showing a folder's contents and I type something to search for a file, caja crashes (i.e., it disappears and I am back to the desktop). It never crashes when I type only the first letter of what I am looking for, but with 2 or 3 letters it crashes sometimes. This didn't happen this morning (I am at work now and don't have my laptop with Mint 12 MATE 64 bit with me) so maybe the recent caja update fixed it.

do you have ibus where caja crashes?

[bdantas]

Good call, Stefano. YES, caja only crashes when I try to search a folder with ibus turned on. Half the time I'm on the computer I do have ibus turned on (for writing in Portuguese or Esperanto). Is ibus the culprit, or caja? If caja, will this be fixed for MATE 1.2/Mint 13? In the meantime, is there anything I can do short of turning ibus off each time I want to search a folder while using caja?

Also, any idea why the screensaver no longer works? I haven't changed any screensaver or power settings since it worked last, so I am at a loss as to what may have caused it to stop working.

Btw, Stefano, I have immense respect and admiration for your work on MATE. I'm committed to MATE all the way and will never even consider a different DE as long as MATE exists--Gnome2 was the best DE until the devs left its users out to dry. I am not a programmer but I can definitely help with donations and reporting bugs. Do donations to Mint help support the MATE project, or should I be donating to each project separately?

[Trapper]

Uh ... where's this mate-screensaver you all are talking about? I am using Mint 12 and MATE. I have no settings for a screensaver anywhere that I can find nor can I find a mate-screensaver package through synaptic.

[bdantas]

Hi, Trapper. Enable the tridex repo and all sorts of MATE-specific goodies will show up in Synaptic. Here are the step-by-step directions, courtesy of stovenator:

1. sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://tridex.net/repo/ubuntu oneiric main"

2. sudo apt-get update

3. sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring

4. gksudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences

5. Add the following to /etc/apt/preferences then save and close the file:
Package: *
Pin: origin tridex.net
Pin-Priority: 700

6. sudo apt-get update

7. sudo apt-get upgrade

[Trapper]

Enable the tridex repo and all sorts of MATE-specific goodies will show up in Synaptic.

Thank you for this information bdantas. I suspected there was more than I was being offered in the repos.

[xpander]

new versions are allmost perfect.
just missing the caja-dropbox extension now to be able to get links from the dropbox folder.
currently have to use nautilus just for that task.

anyway... good work so far and keep it up

[bdantas]

just missing the caja-dropbox extension now

Yes. I'd also add a menu editor, ability to connect remotely, and reliable scrrensaver. Then it would be just like on my old Gnome2

[xpander]

just missing the caja-dropbox extension now

Yes. I'd also add a menu editor, ability to connect remotely, and reliable scrrensaver. Then it would be just like on my old Gnome2

ohh yes... except screensaver i dont care that much. cuz i like it switches my monitor standby instead of screensaver ..but would be good anyway for those who need..but i see there is some screensaver allready in the new 1.1 versions.

looking allmost perfect for me:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screen ... 0%3A46.png

also dockbarx works somehow..basically its just set to transparent and to the right so its over the top of the mate-panel... allmost like real deal

i tryed to modify nautilus-dropbox sourcecode for caja..but im too noob in that..it didnt work
waiting for solution from smarter people.

[stefano-k]

Good call, Stefano. YES, caja only crashes when I try to search a folder with ibus turned on. Half the time I'm on the computer I do have ibus turned on (for writing in Portuguese or Esperanto). Is ibus the culprit, or caja? If caja, will this be fixed for MATE 1.2/Mint 13? In the meantime, is there anything I can do short of turning ibus off each time I want to search a folder while using caja?

this bug is solved in nautilus, so I'll apply the same patch on caja... this will be solved soon

Also, any idea why the screensaver no longer works? I haven't changed any screensaver or power settings since it worked last, so I am at a loss as to what may have caused it to stop working.

can you try to change settings and check if screensaver come back to work?

Btw, Stefano, I have immense respect and admiration for your work on MATE. I'm committed to MATE all the way and will never even consider a different DE as long as MATE exists--Gnome2 was the best DE until the devs left its users out to dry. I am not a programmer but I can definitely help with donations and reporting bugs. Do donations to Mint help support the MATE project, or should I be donating to each project separately?

at the moment, the MATE team has not started asking donations... because money brings corruption so, it's useful to report bugs

[bdantas]

Thanks, Stefano. I will wait for the patched caja, then. I will try changing my power and screensaver settings and will report back later. I will continue reporting any bugs that I find...until MATE 1.2 comes along and there are no bugs left to find

[xpander]

cant get the dropbox working with caja. downloaded nautilus-dropbox,
changed the stuff in files replaced NAUTILUS with CAJA, libnautilus with libcaja (extension stuff) and nautilus with caja.
all compiled fine and installed fine also but still doesnt show up the links in the folders (yes i restarted caja)