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MATE panel not showing

21.04 MATE up to date today. My MATE desktop comes up without panels. Each time I have to issue $ mate-panel reset This restores the panel but also displays the message Unable to open desktop file screensaver.toggle.desktop for panel…
Stephen Boston
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Ubuntu Mate 20.04 keyboard layout panel indicator missing

After upgrade to 20.04 and resetting the panel settings I can no longer see the keyboard layout indicator on the panel. Not sure about exact steps to reproduce it. I suppose, you can remove the "Indicator Applet Complete" and re-add it to the panel.…
Stanley Mitchell
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How do I stop programs from closing when I right click them on the taskbar?

I'm using a laptop, and I keep accidentally right clicking on programs in the taskbar. As it's currently set up, when I right click an item on the taskbar, it closes that program. How do I change it so that right clicking a program does not close…
Drakinite
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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 --replace would bring up the missing menu and bottom…
Buck
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20.04 MATE desktop - clock in panel occasionally shows UTC

Testing a newly upgraded Ubuntu 20.04 system with the MATE desktop installed. The panel clock normally shows the desired US Central Time. But every now and then it sneakily reverts to UTC - This screenshot was taken at 7:30 am local When I click on…
Organic Marble
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Status indicator on the status-bar based on the return value of a periodic execution of a command

I want to execute a command periodically and based on its output to have a visual indication of its last return value (0: green, non-zero: red). e.g. by using the command below I can check whether my vpn connection is still alive and healthy.…
Marinos An
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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 dislocating the panel while trying to move an…
Archisman Panigrahi
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Program launchers suddenly do not respond in MATE

Today when I turned on my computer running Ubuntu 20.04, Mate 1.24.0, I encountered very curious behavior. The top panel contains Application Places System and various program launchers. None of these respond to a mouse click, neither left nor…
Roger House
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Change Icon of Main Menu in Panel (Mate)

I already was able to change the icon of the Main Menu in the panel of Mate using these suggestions Change icon on MATE main menu Yesterday, suddenly menu was gone, I fixed it and eanted to assign "my" icon again, doing the same procedure. This time…
Buelent
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Change default media player on Ubuntu Mate Indicator Applet Complete

Little help. Where on Ubuntu Mate do you set the default app that displays on the "Indicator Applet Complete" when you click the speaker/sound icon? I have checked many settings and options. They are all set to Rhythmbox. But Firefox is set and I…
RayJ
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How to correctly get command output while using Command Applet in MATE?

I have added Command Applet to the MATE Panel. I planed to use a command with some scripting inside to check server availability - something like wget --quiet https://someserver -O - | grep -s somedata > /dev/null && echo "S OK" || echo "S…
N0rbert
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