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Ubuntu MATE is an official flavor of Ubuntu, using the MATE desktop environment. Use this tag for questions specific to this flavor.

Ubuntu MATE is an official flavor that uses MATE Desktop, a continuation of the GNOME 2 environment that offers a more traditional desktop metaphor than Unity or GNOME Shell.

The project's developers stated aims include offering accessibility to all users, and a suitable alternative for older, less powerful hardware as well as new devices.

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and earlier still use GTK+ 2, but in 16.10 will move to GTK+ 3. The current version of MATE Desktop has full GTK+ 3 support, and GTK+ 3 can be installed in Ubuntu 16.04.

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Further information can be found on the Official Ubuntu MATE website

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How do I disable touchpad when using a mouse

I can disable my touchpad but if I'm away from my bluetooth mouse or forget my wireless dongle for my backup mouse, I'm SOL. Linux Mint had a nice setting that allowed the touchpad to be disabled when using a mouse. I'm now on Ubuntu MATE 16.04…
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How do I remove an incomplete or broken snap installation of nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi?

First the caveat: I understand that this question involves Mate and a Raspberry Pi so if you consider it outside the realm of this forum just ignore it. But on the chance that it may be helpful or typical of something involving snaps or that…
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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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upowerd hogging CPU while iPhone is connected

It appears that upowerd is hogging my cpu time, I killed the process, but it has returned, and is climbing in resource consumption. Do I need upower? can I disable it? I am using ubuntu Mate 16.04. heres a screen-shot from the top command
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Is it possible to avoid Firefox as Snap installation and keep deb-version on Ubuntu 21.10 flavor?

I have just installed fresh Ubuntu MATE 21.10 system. Then I ran update-manager manually to check and get some new updates. It showed a surprise for me - it will remove Firefox deb-package as shown on below screenshot to replace it with…
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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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tar.xz extracting error "xz: (stdin): File format not recognized"

I am trying to extract a .tar.xz file on my Ubuntu Mate computer. No matter what I do, I get this error: xz: (stdin): File format not recognized tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I have done the following…
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Display brightness cannot be adjusted 18.04

I have recently installed Ubuntu mate 18.04 on my XPS 15 9560. I cannot adjust the display brightness through any means. I have tried the following: Set the acpi_backlight=vendor in boot parameters used xbacklight, which gives the following results…
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How to disable the keyboard shortcut to switch between workspaces?

There are a ton of questions and guides about how to make Ctrl + Alt + Arrow work to switch between workspaces -- I'm having the opposite problem. "Switch between workspaces" works just fine -- but I want to disable it because it overrides the Ctrl…
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How to have more than 4 desktop spaces in Ubuntu mate

I have a pretty hefty computer and tend to use the extra work spaces a lot. But I want more than 4 because I often run applications in one work space and then switch to the next and run a different application and I tend to run out of space in my…
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How do I get my desktop Icons back on my primary display?

So, I have read several questions - with and without answers - and though this is similar to others, I have found nothing particular to the issues I am experiencing. It is a three-part problem and I think they're all related erego why they are being…
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PKCS Signature error/warnings running dmesg on Ubuntu Mate 18.04

I'm on a clean install of Ubuntu Mate 18.04, the system itself is working with no issues, but I am running dmesg to look at errors and warnings. I like to try to get them all dealt with if possible even if they aren't causing obvious issues right…
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mapping between dconf dump output and gsettings schemas

For example : dconf dump / | grep mouse [org/mate/desktop/peripherals/mouse] .... So if I want to make a gsettings command based on this output, I look to gsettings to list the schemas, but.... (output edited to include only likely candidates…
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How to make Eclipse installed via snap use a differerent configuration when started from global menu

Files from software installed via snap are read-only. To configure Eclipse, however, we need to change its eclipse.ini file. How to do it so, when pressing the Super key and clicking on Eclipse's logo, it uses the new configuration?
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