Questions tagged [mate]
A fork of GNOME 2 that offers a more traditional desktop environment.
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Tripping off and usb on virtual machine
Please I'm new to this Ubuntu mate.
I'm having some issues.
It trips off by itself often whenever I'm working on something , entering a site or even opening some files.
Can't locate USB on the ...
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Elements not showing in Brave browser after updating Ubuntu MATE
I recently installed Ubuntu MATE on an old laptop, and installed Brave on it. I used it with no problems for about a week and today I was prompted to perform a system update. After I did, Brave is ...
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MATE on Ubuntu 22.04 / Caja file manager issue: File download window: Search begins when trying to alter the name of a file
I am a MATE user, because I need a task bar that lists the opened windows in a multi-screen environment. I have been using MATE for over 10 years on CentOS and recently switched to Ubuntu 22.04. I ...
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Scite on Ubuntu 22.04 Mate: cannot read text when selected (selection fully black)?
I usually use Scite as my primary text editor, and I just have a new install on Ubuntu 22.04 with Mate desktop, where I noticed the following - when I type text normally, all is good:
But when I ...
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After upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 Control Center no longer opens and Appearance no longer available
Least technical post you may find.
Upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04.
Control center now fails to open even though it shows as being installed and up-to-date. Therefore I can't change my appearance or ...
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Connect Trial Version of Ubuntu Mate to Network
I have plugged into my HP laptop a flashdrive with the trial version of Ubuntu Mate on it. Upon running the trial version, the network icon in the top bar is black. When I right click on it, no ...
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How to switch between Gnome & Mate desktops?
When I reinstalled OS, I had only one -- Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome desktop -- option. I got used to Mate desktop. Therefore, I installed Mate desktop too. Having two desktops -- Mate & Gnome -- how to ...
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How best to bring a broken desktop (MATE) back?
At power-up, the greeter window provides for each of my 4 login ID's these desktops: Gnome, Gnome Classic, Ubuntu, Ubuntu w/ Wayland, MATE, Budgie, KDE/Plasma, and a few others.
Something about the ...
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Stop MATE panel being dragged with touch
I have a touch screen computer running Ubuntu MATE 22.04.
When I accidentally touch on the MATE panel, the panel is dragged to another location, which is very inconvenient, because sometimes I end up ...
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Screen is slightly blurred after rotating upside down
I am using Ubuntu MATE 22.04 in a laptop. After rotating the screen upside down in Displays, the screen becomes slightly blurred (and becomes normal after restoring the orientation).
Is there any way ...
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Touch sensor does not rotate after flipping the screen orientation
This question is for computers without a rotation sensor. For computers with a rotation sensor, autorotate can work in GNOME and KDE. See this question.
I have a touch screen Chromebook (natively) ...
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How to enable hot corner in MATE desktop?
Is there any way to show/hide desktop and spread all windows by hovering the mouse cursor to the corners of the screen in MATE desktop?
This feature is available in KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, and also in ...
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Trying to track down the Firefox Gnome Integration addon from Ubuntu 10.4ish [closed]
I'm currently using the Pale Moon browser with the Mate DE. Integration isn't perfect, so I thought about using an old default Firefox extension to see if that would fix the few issues. Since Mate is ...
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How to make redshift even more red in Ubuntu MATE 22.04? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu MATE 22.04. Towards night, redshift sets a color temperature of 4500K.
How to reduce the color temperature even further? Unlike the Night Light feature in GNOME/KDE, Redshift does ...
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What is Zeitgeist Data Hub background process?
I am running Ubuntu MATE 22.10. I noticed the background process zeitgeist-datahub in htop. What is this process doing? Can I safely disable it?
I found a package of the same name. https://packages....
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Cursor stuck in position using MATE on Xubuntu
Every single time I log into the MATE Desktop, the cursor is always stuck in a position, and I can't move it. Pulling up a terminal with ctrl+alt+t and typing in sudo modprobe -r psmouse and sudo ...
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Is it possible to open files with a single click in touch screen and with usual double click when using mouse?
I am using Ubuntu MATE 22.04 in a touch screen chromebook.
Is it be possible to open files and directories with a single click when using the touch screen, and with the usual double clicks when using ...
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Items missing from desktop when using rdp
I access Ubuntu 22.04 Mate from Windows remote desktop. When I log in, the top and bottom bars are missing from the desktop. While searching for a solution, I found that the command mate-panel --...
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DVD drive activates every time I save a text file, and at other inappropriate times
I am writing a text file on my laptop.
However, every time I save the text file, the DVD drive activates. The DVD drive also activates at other inappropriate times.
I could eject the DVD of course, ...
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Accidentally install ubuntu-desktop, how to get MATE back?
I'm using Ubuntu MATE 22.04.1 and I had a problem where my login screen disappeared so I tried to get it back by installing ubuntu-desktop. This brought the GUI back but also replaced MATE with Gnome ...
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Getting a Studio workstation with my prefered DE
I've been an Ubuntu Studio user since 12.04, but honestly I'm not a huge fan of KDE which is the default desktop that ships with Ubuntu Studio.
In the past, I've installed Ubuntu Studio, then ...
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How to make media keys work on a Chromebook running Ubuntu MATE or Kubuntu?
I have installed Ubuntu MATE 22.04 and Kubuntu 23.04 on two Chromebooks with amd64 architecture.
The media keys are not working. I can change brightness from system settings, but the media keys are ...
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How to make ubuntu show image previews for image icons
I updated my Ubuntu Mate 20.04 to 22.04, and my settings, themes and general appearances all changed. My pictures, formerly would show the image as a preview. now its some icon which makes things ...
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X / desktop configuration for dynamic multi-screen setup
I have a relatively minor configuration problem with my multi-monitor system that has been bugging me for years now.
My desktop computer has three monitors connected to it. The center and right ...
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Why my Ubuntu MATE freezes and loops the audio? [duplicate]
I'd like to know based of my problem, if is a problem of my Ubuntu MATE or in the worst of the cases my hardware.
When I read online news it doesn't seem to happen anything.
But when I watch a video ...
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how can i install the mate login screen on ubuntu 20.04?
I just installed mate's desktop on ubuntu focal fossa 20.04. I already have ubuntu unity downloaded on my pc. so the login screen is unity's login screen. how do I change it to mate's login screen via ...
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Consistently unable to connect to Odroid N2+ with remote desktop with xRDP (Please help me! D:<)
So I've been trying to get xrdp to work on my Odroid N2+ for a few weeks now and it's pulling teeth, but you never fully pull them out (no release, just constant pain). I really would like to be able ...
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How to make LightDM login screen have the same background as the desktop background in Ubuntu MATE?
I am using Ubuntu MATE 22.04.
Back when Ubuntu used Unity, the background of the LightDM login screen automatically changed when a different desktop background was selected.
Can something like that ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: cannot find camera
my Ubuntu HP laptop cannot find its camera, so I cannot use video.
Camera shows "No Device Found" does not help.
From that question,
sudo lshw -class video
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*-display ...
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22.10 new install won't accept password after several successful boots, now won't open in Mate desktop
I installed 22.10 yesterday and ended up with the white screen of death. After finding a way around that, I found that it was asking for my password twice for some reason, but it would open in Mate ...
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Keep Caja windows from resizing automatically?
Weird question. but is there a way to keep the folders from resizing when I open a subfolder? I have subfolders that have slightly longer names, and I like the windows to be snapped to the side of the ...
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Unable to install Nvidia driver version > 470 on Ubuntu 20.04 MATE desktop
Running Ubuntu 20.04 with MATE desktop installed. Nvidia driver version 470 works ok, but some Steam games complain and want a version > 499.
When I install any Nvidia driver version > 500 using ...
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Missing menu bar and other symbols (22
Menu bar date and time connection symbol etc Missing
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Ubuntu Mate theme has no "Traditional" option after update to Jammy
I updated my computer, and now the theme is all screwed up. The panel applets in Mate don't work, the icons are wrong or missing. In Mate-Tweak, the option I would usually choose, "Traditional&...
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Will upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 cause loss of UI settings / choices?
Due to a software program I use, I am compelled to upgrade to (at least) the 20.04 release. I believe I have a Gnome / Mate desktop. I suspect when the upgrade finishes, my "look & feel&...
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Sound or streaming issue while on console
If I have music playing in Ubuntu Mate 22.04 (same issue in 18.04), it stops playing several seconds after moving to tty1-6. This happens with any music streaming on a browser (youtube, pandora, etc) ...
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multiple problems after upgrade to 22.04
I have multiple problems after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I get random screen flickering that comes and goes. Amd stoney graphics on a hp laptop. All the solutions I have seen are for intel. The ...
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Changing Icon for Main Menu in MATE-Panel with dconf-editor
I am aware that this question was already posed in a similar way. I then got a perfect answer to do it via dconf-editor -> org -> mate -> panel -> objects. INstalling now MATE with the ...
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Firefox vanishes from apps menu unless I remove translations from .desktop file (MATE, non-snap FF)
Plain Ubuntu 22.04, removed snap, installed Firefox from Mozilla repository
Firefox works well and shows up in apps menu
Installed MATE 1.26.0 from the repositories, set it as default desktop
Firefox ...
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MATE drawer config
I have a number of panel drawers on a Ubuntu MATE system (20.04.5 LTS) which contain a number of application launchers with fairly complex command arguments. I have another system running MATE (22.04....
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How to get MATE desktop when logging on remotely?
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04.1 on my Raspberry Pi and set my account to use the MATE desktop when I logged on from the physical console. (I really don't like the default desktop at all)!
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Mate IBus not accepting changes to "next input method"
I'm on Ubuntu Mate, and when I change the "Next Input method" to "Alt Shift" so that I can switch input methods like I do on Windows.
However, even after restarting, typing "...
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Ayatana keyboard indicator blends into background
After upgrading Ubuntu MATE 20.04 to 22.04, it seems the new standard way of getting indicator icons in the panel is via the Ayatana indicator system. I've added the keyboard layout indicator by ...
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How to set standby time for an Intenso external HDD or alternatively reduce VLC video cache on Ubuntu Mate 20.04
When I watch movies with VLC from my external Intenso SATA drive on my Ubuntu Mate 20.04 system, some minutes of the video apparently are somehow loaded temporarily, so that the drive will go to sleep ...
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A Wine program (maybe a service?) is auto-starting. How are automatic Wine tasks scheduled?
I installed Buffalo NAS Navigator on my WINE instance, and later uninstalled it. However it left something behind -- two DLLs, and one program, "nassvc.exe". The EXE auto-starts every few ...
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How to change text color in top/bottom menu bar in Ubuntu MATE
I want to use the black color of the panel, but in this case the black text on a black background is not visible. How to change the text color?
I use BlueMenta theme.
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X2Go no longer works in 22.04, black screen, then closes
X2Go with MATE desktop used to work fine, but after upgrading to 22.04 it has broken, and I haven't been able to fix it for months. If I try to connect with MATE (from Windows X2Go client), it shows ...
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speaker and mailbox MATE 22.04 panel indicator applet
My wife and I both use stock 22.04LTS with MATE installed under 22.04. She has both a speaker icon and a mailbox icon on her upper panel. I had these two icons in the past. On my wife's machine when ...
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Both Shift keys not working on old laptop Samsung RV411 under Ubuntu MATE 22.04
After searching and reading all of the related questions in here, after doing all the workarounds suggested in the answers (there's too many so I won't describe them), my shift keys, both left and ...
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MATE Indicator Applet Complete No Indicators failure
I fully understand that this general list is not the MATE list. However, I am NOT running MATE Ubuntu, I am running stock Ubuntu 22.04 LTS current using a MATE desktop GUI. I have done this in 18....
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