Re: MATE desktop does not work anymore

2025-05-26 Thread gfp
able state so that I can start to do something. thanks Gottfried Am 26.05.25 um 10:08 schrieb David Lecompte: Hi Gottfried, after updating packages and a sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/convig.scm yesterday and today still MATE Desktop does not work. The menu line at the bottom comes and di

Re: MATE desktop does not work anymore

2025-05-26 Thread David Lecompte
Hi Gottfried, > after updating packages and a sudo guix system reconfigure > /etc/convig.scm yesterday and today > still MATE Desktop does not work. > > The menu line at the bottom comes and disapears every second, > that's why the GUI is impossible to use. > I am no

MATE desktop does not work anymore

2025-05-24 Thread gfp
Hi, for your information: after updating packages and a sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/convig.scm yesterday and today still MATE Desktop does not work. The menu line at the bottom comes and disapears every second, that's why the GUI is impossible to use. I tried to delete the stale

Re: MATE desktop

2025-03-12 Thread gfp
Hi Guix, I installed Trisquel with MATE Desktop in a qemu/virtual machine. I checked if in Caja, the file manager in MATE, it is possible to change the background. In the Menu bar it is the second option: "edit" Then choose "backgrounds/emblems" (almost on the bottom o

Re: after sudo system reconfigure ... MATE desktop does not work anymore

2025-02-24 Thread Luis Felipe
: 1fbc2625d23b782d60d96b4a4cd037df6d30df40   Konfigurationsdatei: /gnu/store/y89ds8bajd59zl73h22dgd0js7wp95xh-configuration.scm I tried the process below assuming it would get me the same MATE version you're getting trouble with. The resulting virtual machine displayed the MATE desktop normally. I can us

Re: after sudo system reconfigure ... MATE desktop does not work anymore

2025-02-24 Thread gfp
/gnu/store/y89ds8bajd59zl73h22dgd0js7wp95xh-configuration.scm Am 24.02.25 um 14:57 schrieb Luis Felipe: Hi Gottfried, On 22/02/25 19:55, gfp wrote: I updated my packages and after that I did a sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm and MATE Desktop does not start properly. It star

Re: after sudo system reconfigure ... MATE desktop does not work anymore

2025-02-24 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi Gottfried, On 22/02/25 19:55, gfp wrote: I updated my packages and after that I did a sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm and MATE Desktop does not start properly. It starts but the whole application launcher with all the packages and menus showing up, doesn´t come up any more. It

after sudo system reconfigure ... MATE desktop does not work anymore

2025-02-22 Thread gfp
Hi, I updated my packages and after that I did a sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm and MATE Desktop does not start properly. It starts but the whole application launcher with all the packages and menus showing up, doesn´t come up any more. It always wants to start, but can´t. So

Re: MATE desktop

2025-02-09 Thread gfp
Hi Roman, Thank you very much for your issue tracker report. It is very exactly explained. Gottfried Am 09.02.25 um 11:22 schrieb Roman Riabenko: Hello, Gottfried. On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:49:19 + gfp wrote: It looks like the issue has not been reported yet with the Guix issue tracker.

Re: MATE desktop

2025-02-09 Thread gfp
Hi Roman, a second thing that does not work in MATE desktop, which worked earlier in other distros. I don´t know if that works in Trisquel because I haven´t installed Trisquel with MATE desktop on an other laptop. Caja the file manager has a possibility to change the backgrounds/colours

Re: MATE desktop

2025-02-09 Thread Roman Riabenko via
Hello, Gottfried. On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:49:19 + gfp wrote: > > It looks like > >> the issue has not been reported yet with the Guix issue tracker. > > Could you report it on a Guix issue tracker > because I don´t know how to do that? Here it is: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76155 Reportin

Re: MATE desktop

2025-02-08 Thread gfp
installed gnome-characters. thanks Gottfried Am 08.02.25 um 16:15 schrieb Roman Riabenko: On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 12:21:15 + gfp wrote: AFAI remember there was an app in the MATE desktop with the different languages and I was able to use the ancient greek symbols and letters. In Guix SD with

Re: MATE desktop

2025-02-08 Thread Roman Riabenko via
On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 12:21:15 + gfp wrote: > AFAI remember there was an app in the MATE desktop with the different > languages > and I was able to use the ancient greek symbols and letters. > > In Guix SD with MATE desktop there are not all symbols available. > AFAI

Re: MATE desktop

2025-02-08 Thread Roman Riabenko via
Hello, Gottfried. On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:09:45 + gfp wrote: > I have the impression (I can´t say which ones at the moment) > and others also > (AFAI remember Avron mentioned it in Trisquel), > that in Guix > e.g. MATE desktop > has less Applications available > than MAT

MATE desktop

2025-01-28 Thread gfp
Hi Guix, I have the impression (I can´t say which ones at the moment) and others also (AFAI remember Avron mentioned it in Trisquel), that in Guix e.g. MATE desktop has less Applications available than MATE desktop in Trisquel although both are GNU systems. Why is that? Does it mean that in

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-12 Thread gfp
Hi Roman, I do not think that it refers to the style of writing named "Sans". Instead, it must be referring to the font, Yes of course, I meant "font" I expressed myself incorrectly, sorry. It seems that "Sans" is a default font in MATE. I don´t know. I also don´t know how to find that o

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-12 Thread Roman Riabenko via
Hello, Gottfried. On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 08:37:45 + gfp wrote: > But many signs are not displayed, because it says: > this sign is not included into "SANS" > So there are no options to choose different styles of writing. I do not think that it refers to the style of writing named "Sans". Instea

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-06 Thread Roman Riabenko via
On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 02:39:25 + Luis Felipe wrote: > Roman, could it be that you're talking about "GNOME character map" > (whose command is gnome-character-map) instead of "GNOME Characters" > (gnome-characters)? Because the former does list characters by language, > and I see Greek in there.

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-06 Thread gfp
Hi, thanks for helping me. As Luis wrote I also don´t have a separate list of "Greek alphabet" in the left panel. But if I write: "greek" in the search panel then the greek alphabet comes up. The second method, as you described, put e.g.0370 in my search panel/Ctrl+F it comes up the greek c

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Luis Felipe
On 5/01/25 23:59, Luis Felipe wrote: On 5/01/25 22:26, Roman Riabenko wrote: Hello Gottfried On Sun,  5 Jan 2025 20:08:37 + gfp wrote: I also installed the Gnome characters app but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. I see the Greek characters in my installation of GNOME

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Luis Felipe
On 5/01/25 22:26, Roman Riabenko wrote: Hello Gottfried On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:08:37 + gfp wrote: I also installed the Gnome characters app but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. I see the Greek characters in my installation of GNOME characters in the current Guix System

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Roman Riabenko via
Hello Gottfried On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:08:37 + gfp wrote: > I also installed the Gnome characters app > but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. I see the Greek characters in my installation of GNOME characters in the current Guix System. The Greek alphabet is listed as a sep

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread gfp
doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. Gottfried Am 05.01.25 um 15:57 schrieb Luis Felipe: Hi Gottfried, On 5/01/25 13:15, gfp wrote: Hi Guix, Guix System, installing MATE desktop does not include mate-character map. I used this earlier when I have ubuntu intalled. Guix doesn´t

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi Gottfried, On 5/01/25 13:15, gfp wrote: Hi Guix, Guix System, installing MATE desktop does not include mate-character map. I used this earlier when I have ubuntu intalled. Guix doesn´t include this application. Does somebody know why? I don't know, but I would use it for an

MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread gfp
Hi Guix, Guix System, installing MATE desktop does not include mate-character map. I used this earlier when I have ubuntu intalled. Guix doesn´t include this application. Does somebody know why? I would use it for ancient greek letters to pick some letters which I can´t create. thanks

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-10 Thread Gottfried
ill toward Guix. but it takes a lot of time at the moment, My first month with Guix was one of the hardest ever. I was so desperate and felt so small, I hardly slept. My todo list was enormous, and anguish filled my heart. the MATE desktop can’t use an additional monitor besides the laptop, Is

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
d felt so small, I hardly slept. My todo list was enormous, and anguish filled my heart. > the MATE desktop can’t use an additional monitor besides the laptop, Is this under X or Wayland? Please see if the eyes in 'xeyes' follow your mouse. In X, you can try something like xrandr

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Gottfried
, that’s my aim for the moment. Then I could always switch the desktops and choose the one, which is working, in case the others don’t work for my needs. Then I would be on the save side, to at least be able to work with Guix System. The enlightenment desktop doesn’t work well. Now the MATE desktop

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:23 AM Gottfried wrote: > > It seems to me, after using Guix for 1 year, that packages for > developers like Emacs are very well maintained. You are right. For better or for worse, Guix is a speciality distribution. Some of us have higher hopes. Personally,

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Gottfried
Hi, thanks for help. The link above has instructions. I think you can select the Classic view via the little session gear in the GDM login screen. I didn’t see any link above, only underneath for gnome-classic. I remember from an earlier distro, that I looked at gnome-classic, but it is like

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 3:09 AM Gottfried wrote: > > Could it be that MATE 1.24.1 became always worse through updating gdm > because now MATE 1.26 (already in Trisquel 11 used) und MATE 1.27 is > available, and after updating to a new version the support for the older > version is no

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Gottfried
Hi, Have you tried switching into regular X.org (or into Wayland) using the little sessions sprocket in the GDM login screen? There is no possibility to do that. I have got 2 options: login to MATE or login to ENLIGHTENMENT Desktop. that’s all. Kind regards Gottfried Am 08.05.23 um 18

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Gottfried
Hi, thanks for helping me. Can it be that MATE 1.24.1 desktop with gdm is already 3 years old, and became slowly worse. Since some month I have to enter my password at login twice, now the additional monitor isn’t recognised any more, even during starting it is recognised, but after the secon

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:32 AM Gottfried wrote: > > How can I install "lightdm" instead of "gdm" I have never used lightdm but I think it is reasonably popular. You may wish to wait for more responses before making such a drastic change. Have you tried switching into regular X.org

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-08 Thread Gottfried
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Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-08 Thread Gottfried
Hi, Am 07.05.23 um 14:32 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > Have you tried clearing gdm's cache? I think something like rm -rf ~/.cache/gdm might solve the issue. I'm not sure for your other questions. > I tried this command: rm -rf ~/.cache/gdm but it didn’t help. Kind regards Gottfried Ope

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 5:12 AM Gottfried wrote: > > Am I the only one who has MATE-Desktop? There are surely others besides you. (For example, I think the Linux creator may use it, although not on Guix.) It would make sense to wait for more responses before you take any d

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-07 Thread Julien Lepiller
ot recovered. > >it seems it is a gdm problem. > >----- > >Am I the only one who has MATE-Desktop? > >- >1. >Is there a way to repair gdm >or should I wait for a next update? > >2. >Or should I inst

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-07 Thread Gottfried
Hi, I did a rollback on my guix system four times, but MATE was not recovered. it seems it is a gdm problem. - Am I the only one who has MATE-Desktop? - 1. Is there a way to repair gdm or should I wait for a next update? 2. Or

MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-06 Thread Gottfried
Hi, since 2 days MATE Desktop doesn’t start properly. The additional monitor doesn’t get a signal, so I have only the laptop. Additionally on the screen the icons are different. It seems like a basic, a save configuration. I checked the cable of the monitor, it is o.k. I checked the monitor

command to find out which packages of MATE desktop are installed and which are available

2023-04-10 Thread Gottfried
Hi, I want to find out which MATE Desktop packages are installed on my laptop and which are missing. guix package -I packages installed via guix package guix package --profile=/var/guix/profiles/system/profile -I packages installed via guix system It shows "MATE" but doesn’t spe

adding a theme in Mate Desktop

2022-06-01 Thread Gottfried
Hi Guixers, is there any possibility to add a theme to my MATE Desktop? The themes are stored in: /gnu/store and not in the usual place like /usr/... e.g. /gnu/store/09bi02ldaqsykdfi8szv225z4adl98hj-mate-1.24.1/share/themes/TraditionalGreen Gottfried OpenPGP_0x61FAF349C9FB7F94.asc

weather applet, network applet in MATE Desktop

2022-02-22 Thread Gottfried
Hi, I installed guix with MATE desktop the first time. I was wondering, why only few programs were installed. I have great trouble to add new programs and need a lot of advice. e.g. no printer, scanner, no weather applet, network applet and other applets in the quick launch bar available

help: guix mate desktop issue

2021-10-16 Thread dikasp
Hi newbie here, im just installed guixsd mate desktop with following problem: 1. mate power manager always ask authentication when brightness changed, even when it dim the screen on its own. 2. i cant fix screen flickering, usualy in archlinux im just create config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20