Re: The mate-user-guide is inaccessible.

2020-05-20 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello John, In Debian Buster Mate is at version 1.20 but in Slint currently it is at version 1.24. This could explain (or not: to be honest I didn't check) some of the differences. This being said the sources files of the various components of Mate come from the same repositories, but the cho

Re: The mate-user-guide is inaccessible.

2020-05-20 Thread John J. Boyer
Hello, All right, I can use yelp, but the procedure is rather weird. I have Debian Buster. Originally it was CLI only. I first tried Gnome, but that kept crashing and burning. Mate is much better. I have a Focus 40 Braille display. When I start yelp I can arrow down from the top. Things flash

Re: The mate-user-guide is inaccessible.

2020-05-20 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello John, As Alex said, at least here (Slint distribution) there are several ways to access the help for the Mate desktop: 1. With the focus on the desktop, just press F1. 2. Press Alt + F1 to put the focus on the Application menu, arrow right twice to switch to the System menu, then Arrow do

Re: The mate-user-guide is inaccessible.

2020-05-20 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Didier in CC told me mate-user-guide is accessible so it could probably told you the trick to make it working Best regards. Le 20/05/2020 à 16:13, John J. Boyer a écrit : Hello, Thanks Alex. I have tried going to wiki.mate-desktop.org/#!index.md with both firefox and Chromium. I couldnt mak

Re: The mate-user-guide is inacessible.

2020-05-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you checked the places and about tabs out thoroughly yet? On slint there's a control on one of them that opens up the mate user guide. Once opened it will also help to turn on caret navigation. On Wed, 20 May 2020, John J. Boyer wrote: > Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 10:13:34 > From: John J. Boyer

The mate-user-guide is inacessible.

2020-05-20 Thread John J. Boyer
Hello, Thanks Alex. I have tried going to wiki.mate-desktop.org/#!index.md with both firefox and Chromium. I couldnt make head or tail of the site. The help option in Mate does not work. How can I read the mate-user-guide? My opinioon is that they should have made it a simple Web page. That i

Re: Restarting Mate

2020-05-20 Thread Alex ARNAUD
You can restart your whole session with: sudo service lightdm restart Best regards. Le 20/05/2020 à 11:48, John J. Boyer a écrit : Hello, How do I restart Mate when its performance seems to be deteriorating? Thanks, John

Restarting Mate

2020-05-20 Thread John J. Boyer
Hello, How do I restart Mate when its performance seems to be deteriorating? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses live. Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA Mission: develo