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A fork of GNOME 2 that offers a more traditional desktop environment.

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2 created as an alternative to the new approach to the desktop used by GNOME 3 and in response to the drop of support for GNOME 2. MATE uses a more traditional desktop metaphor, compared to GNOME Shell or Unity.

Its stated focus is on improving, refining and maintaining the vitality of the GNOME 2 style desktop environment

MATE desktop fully supports GTK+ 3 as of version 1.14.0, released in April 2016.

Screenshot of MATE on Ubuntu, from SuperUser

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Ubuntu 16.04 slow boot (apt-daily.service)

My boot is horribly slow, and I don't know why. $ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 10.975s (kernel) + 49.732s (userspace) = 1min 708ms $ systemd-analyze blame 34.971s apt-daily.service 20.590s snapd.refresh.service …
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How do I disable emoji input in Ubuntu Mate 18.04?

Just noticed this annoying emoji input ("Emoji Choice") popping up every time I press Ctrl+Shift+E in 18.04. I really need this shortcut to switch to the file explorer in Visual Studio Code but instead I only get the emoji input. Is there a way to…
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Free software to share mouse and keyboard between linux and windows?

I have a doubt, there is a free program to share mouse between linux and windows, I have a PC and a laptop, on the laptop I have w10 and ubuntu mate 18.04, and the pc w10, when I use the PC and laptop with w10, I use the windows software called…
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How do I install MATE (the desktop environment)?

I have seen several youtube videos that are showing MATE (The Gnome 2.x fork) installed in 11.10. How can I install it to test it out in 11.10 and above. If it helps the only sources I know of are: SourceForge, GitHub, and Matsusoft
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How do I remove XFCE from my computer?

My computer is overheating because I got too many desktop environments installed like: MATE, Cinnamon and XFCE. I uninstalled them, but XFCE failed to uninstall. I get this error. sudo apt-get purge xfce4 Reading package lists... Error! E:…
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Not authorized to control networking

I have Ubuntu 13.04 Gnome with Mate. If I click on the networking icon on the top tool bar and try to do something like add a never before used Wifi or simply click Hardwire Connection 1 when I have changed to a new network, I get 'Connection…
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What's the difference between ubuntu-mate and ubuntu?

I understand MATE is a desktop environment, but what is the difference between ubuntu with a MATE desktop environment and ubuntu-mate ? EDIT: Difference Between Ubuntu and Ubuntu-Gnome is not a duplicate of my question because there is a dedicated…
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High resolution screen creates tiny icons and text with Mate desktop

I find it odd that in the year 2015, there is still a problem with operating systems not dealing correctly with higher DPI values. So if the resolution is high for the same screen size, all fonts, icons, panels, windows etc. will be relatively too…
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Keyboard shortcut for switching between different keyboard layouts in Ubuntu Mate

Is there a pre-assigned keyboard shortcut for switching between different keyboard layouts in Ubuntu Mate?
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How to reset default window positions and sizes?

Short Version How do you reset the default window positioning and sizing rules? As in, when an application starts, it remembers its last position and size. I want it to not do that, and start in whatever position it would have started in a fresh…
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Window snapping in Ubuntu MATE

I know how to enable window snapping in MATE Desktop, and it works. My problem is this. By default, Window A fills half the screen, and Window B fills half the screen, and you can't click and drag the edges of the window to resize without unsnapping…
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Remote Desktop -- blue screen after login

I've installed mate and xrdp on Ubuntu 18.04. Now I try to connect to this PC from another Ubuntu with Remmina: I press OK, login window disappears background is same,nothing happens. My ~/.xsession contains mate-session. xrdp.log contains stuff…
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Cannot move VirtualBox window

I have a weired sympton with a fresh Windos 10 guest OS under VirtualBox 5.1.28 under Ubutunu-MATE 16.04: I can't move the window at all, when [x] Auto Capture Keyboard is on. Neither dragging the outer windows borders (resize), nor the titlebar…
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How do I restore MATE panel settings from old backup

I was playing around with the MATE Tweak tool and suddenly a stupid option removed all my panel applets and replaced with a default layout - that thing doesn't even confirm the destructive action first! However, I do have a backup of my home folder…
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Lock keys panel indicator for MATE Desktop

I have no indicator LEDs on my keyboard to show whether Caps-Lock is on (I don't have Num-Lock and Scroll-Lock keys so the best option would be to have an indicator only for Caps Lock, but three indicators would be better than none) I would really…
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