On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 22:46 -0600, Robert Nichols via users wrote:
> In my newly upgraded Fedora 42 VM, the greeter offers me only "GNOME" and
> "GNOME Classic" even though dnf reports:
> Package "mate-desktop-1.28.2-4.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 22:46 -0600, Robert Nichols via users wrote:
> In my newly upgraded Fedora 42 VM, the greeter offers me only "GNOME"
> and "GNOME Classic" even though dnf reports:
> Package "mate-desktop-1.28.2-4.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
FWIW, the upgrade was from a Fedora 41 VM in which my MATE desktop was working
just fine.
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On 3/6/25 22:46, Robert Nichols via users wrote:
In my newly upgraded Fedora 42 VM, the greeter
In my newly upgraded Fedora 42 VM, the greeter offers me only "GNOME" and "GNOME
Classic" even though dnf reports:
Package "mate-desktop-1.28.2-4.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
I tried reinstalling mate-desktop, but that did not help. How can I get MATE
de
I have a laptop running Fedora 30 and I want to run vncserver (from
tigervnc-server rpm) with a MATE desktop.
My .vnc/xstartup file looks like this:
!/bin/sh
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
dbus-launch /usr/bin/mate-session &
Everytime I s
Folks,
I upgraded one of my F28 systems to F29. I installed th Gnome
Classic and MATE desktops. When the system boots up and I login using
the MATE desktop the screen is completely garbled. A message appears
saying something like "required virtual size does not fit", however it
Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, John Morris sent:
> Dunno about the other problems but those two behaviors are normal.
> ~/Desktop is a standardized location so both desktop environments
> will see a .desktop file dropped there.
Well some window managers will use that for any file that's visib
d. When I logged out of Gnome Classic and logged
> back in to MATE the display configuration had changed from what it was
> before, now under MATE the external monitor was no longer a clone of the
> laptop display as it was previously, and there was now an icon for the
> terminal app
d logged back in to MATE the display
> configuration had changed from what it was before, now under MATE the
> external monitor was no longer a clone of the laptop display as it
> was previously, and there was now an icon for the terminal app on the
> MATE desktop which there was not previo
external monitor was no longer a clone of the
laptop display as it was previously, and there was now an icon for the
terminal app on the MATE desktop which there was not previously. I also
was unable to mount any external drive under Gnome Classic either, and I
got no message about not being
On Thu, 17 May 2018 08:39:24 -0700
Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> on my F27 system with MATE desktop. First issue is that when I tried
> to logout it didn't, even though it prompted for logout. What's
> The second issue is that now whenever I plug in an external USB drive
>
Folks,
yesterday afternoon I started having some strange things occurring on
my F27 system with MATE desktop. First issue is that when I tried to
logout it didn't, even though it prompted for logout. What's
interesting is that the "System" pulldown menu was missing th
Greg Woods wrote:
Do others have as much trouble as I do accessing their Android phones from
a Fedora desktop?
I never liked using MTP to transfer music to and from my android
devices. For years after many Android devices dropped USB mass
storage access, I simply installed an ssh daemon on t
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
>
>
> what about this:
> https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-
> connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/
Thanks for that. I probably should have guessed some of that myself,
especially the part about needing exclusive acce
On 11/24/17, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On 11/23/17, Dave Stevens wrote:
>> what about this:
>> https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/
This bash script that sets udev rules and automounts mtp devices also
looks promising... (FYI / FWIW / YM
On 11/23/17, Dave Stevens wrote:
> what about this:
> https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/
>
> dave
>
Thanks Dave! Media Transfer Protocol huh. Missed that one.
The article is a bit inaccurate on this statement
"because the file system
Allegedly, on or about 23 November 2017, Fernando Cassia sent:
> All looks very nice, except that the devices are NOT mounted as
> regular filesystem folders. I can only see them on the GUI through
> Caja.
That problems down to the external device not offering a straight-
forward method of access
On Thu, 2017-11-23 at 23:19 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On my previous usage of Gnome 2 many moons ago (Sun JDS) this wasn't
> the case, I remember USB mass storage devices magically appeared on
> the desktop, and that's what I expect here too... but somewhere along
> th
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:19:47 -0300
Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I'm curious as to what is the technical name given to these
> pseudo-URLs used by Caja (formerly Nautilus) on Mate Desktop...
>
> When I plug USB flash drives / Thumb Drives / Pen Drives (use your
> naming
I'm curious as to what is the technical name given to these
pseudo-URLs used by Caja (formerly Nautilus) on Mate Desktop...
When I plug USB flash drives / Thumb Drives / Pen Drives (use your
naming choice) I get those automagically mounted (automount).
But when I plug my Samsung An
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 10:52:12 -0600
Chris Adams wrote:
> I have a brand-new Dell Precision workstation, on which I'm trying to
> install Fedora 23 (with my preferred desktop environment, MATE), which
> is turning into the most frustrating Linux install I've experienced in a
> long time (and I've be
On 12/09/2015 10:59 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said:
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:52:12AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
I started with Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-23 on a thumb drive. I
booted, selected automatic partitioning and MATE, and it started
downloading R
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller said:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:52:12AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> > I started with Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-23 on a thumb drive. I
> > booted, selected automatic partitioning and MATE, and it started
> > downloading RPMs. When it finished downloadin
On Dec 8, 2015 10:52 AM, "Chris Adams" wrote:
> Now, when I get to the graphical login, my USB is dead. I can boot
> single-user mode and the keyboard works fine; as soon as the graphical
> login loads, USB appears dead (keyabord is like it is powered off, no
> Numlock, Capslock, etc.). Tried un
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:52:12AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> I started with Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-23 on a thumb drive. I
> booted, selected automatic partitioning and MATE, and it started
> downloading RPMs. When it finished downloading, it rebooted.
> Apparently, there's a conflict
I have a 10'year old dell laptop. I did the f23 install.. A while back.. And I
run mate. I think I did a gnome install, then did the dnf install mate-desktop
or something similar to that
Sent from my iPad
> On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
>
> I have a
I have a brand-new Dell Precision workstation, on which I'm trying to
install Fedora 23 (with my preferred desktop environment, MATE), which
is turning into the most frustrating Linux install I've experienced in a
long time (and I've been using Linux since before Red Hat existed).
I started with F
thanks for you information
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2015, at 02:33 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> Not sure if it is 1.12 but I run mate desktop on f23.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Nov 9, 2015, at 2:11 AM, William Biggs wrote:
> >
&
On Sun, 08 Nov 2015 23:11:24 -0800
William Biggs wrote:
> can MATE Desktop 1.12 installed in the mate spin of fedora 23
>
You can go here,
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=696706
and download the appropriate binary rpm package from f24 and try to
local install it
On 11/09/15 15:11, William Biggs wrote:
> can MATE Desktop 1.12 installed in the mate spin of fedora 23
It would appear that the MATE desktop supplied with F23 is 1.10.
If you're asking if you can replace that with a newer version I suppose you can
get but it
would be &quo
You can have as many desktops as you like. There's no limits to
install them. Though sometimes they poorly interact between them
provoking issues.
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dnf grouplist
on F23 gives me
...
MATE Desktop
...
so it must be possible to do
dnf groupinstall "MATE Desktop"
suomi
On 11/09/2015 11:33 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
Not sure if it is 1.12 but I run mate desktop on f23.
Sent from my iPad
On Nov 9, 2015, at 2:11 AM, William Bi
Not sure if it is 1.12 but I run mate desktop on f23.
Sent from my iPad
> On Nov 9, 2015, at 2:11 AM, William Biggs wrote:
>
> can MATE Desktop 1.12 installed in the mate spin of fedora 23
>
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On 06/04/2015 10:59 PM, William Biggs wrote:
How do I more link to folder in the move to and the copy to When I
right click any thing ?
Not sure what you mean, but if you're trying to copy multiple items
from one folder to another using one of the GUI file managers, typically
holding down the C
How do I more link to folder in the move to and the copy to When I
right click any thing ?
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but it does not help in my case.
Can someone tell which packet should be installed?
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> > For low-end systems it can also be worth switching to XDM:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDM_(display_manager)
> >
> > yum info xorg-x11-xdm
> > Description : X.Org X11 xdm - X Display Manager
>
> There are other problems with XDM. As far as I know, it has problems
> de
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:41:49PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:20:39PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. reboot normally.
> > >
> > >Result: gnome-shell is started at the login screen:
> > >
> > > ps axuww | grep -w gdm
> >
> > Did you login to Gn
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:20:39PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi Mihai,
>
> I do not think you are following what I mean. I'll try to illustrate.
>
> First some comments on your tests:
>
> > Tests:
> >
> > 1. reboot normally.
> >
> >Result: gnome-shell is started at the login screen:
> >
On 08/28/2013 09:41 AM, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
Hi Ben,
For low-end systems it can also be worth switching to XDM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDM_(display_manager)
yum info xorg-x11-xdm
Description : X.Org X11 xdm - X Display Manager
I suspect that XDM is less likely to b
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:20:39PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> I do not think you are following what I mean. I'll try
> to illustrate.
>
> First some comments on your tests:
>
> > Tests:
> >
> > 1. reboot normally.
> >
> >Result: gnome-shell is started at the login screen:
> >
> > ps
Hi Mihai,
I do not think you are following what I mean. I'll try to illustrate.
First some comments on your tests:
> Tests:
>
> 1. reboot normally.
>
>Result: gnome-shell is started at the login screen:
>
> ps axuww | grep -w gdm
Did you login to Gnome? If so, of course gnome-shell
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:29:52PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:23:38PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> >
> > The discussion was about the high CPU drain on slow GPUs due
> > to gnome-shell, apparently triggered by gdm. This means that
> > gnome-shell runs, not just i
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:23:38PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
>
> The discussion was about the high CPU drain on slow GPUs due
> to gnome-shell, apparently triggered by gdm. This means that
> gnome-shell runs, not just is installed as dependency. :-)
>
> I use gdm + MATE and have gnome-she
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:23:44AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > $ rpm -e --test gdm
> > > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > > > gdm is
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > > >
> > > > $ rpm -e --test gdm
> > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > > gdm is needed by (installed)
> > > > xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-8.fc18.x86_64
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > > >
> > > > One thing I noti
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > >
> > > One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a
> > > system w/o
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> >
> > One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a
> > system w/out
> > accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a
> system w/out
> accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if you
> log into
> MATE.
I don't think that is correct, I have gdm ins
On 25/08/13 22:43, Fred Smith wrote:
> One that has been fixed is that on a laptop it wouldn't sleep when the
> lid was closed. some related symptoms that seem to go away once that
> was fixed include several of the computer-specific function keys on
> my Acer Aspire netbook didn't work but now d
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 09:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> sudo yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"
>
Thanks, Pat,
This will help. I did look through the software list, but couldn't
figure out the root of the desktop.
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On 08/26/2013 08:28 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a
system w/out
accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if
you log into
MATE.
Hi
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a
> system w/out
> accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if
> you log into
> MATE.
>
Is that an actual experience or are you speculatin
On 08/26/2013 01:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Les Howell mailto:hlhow...@pacbell.net>> wrote:
What is the key to getting MATE installed and run on a user?
sudo yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"
Will the GNOME3 version of Ev
Am 25.08.2013 20:00, schrieb Les Howell:
> My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop. She did like GNOME2, so I have
> found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2. I have looked at the
> software menu (on x86_64 F19) and see lots of stuff related to MATE.
> What is the ke
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On 08/26/2013 02:00 AM, Les Howell wrote:
> My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop. She did like GNOME2, so I have
> found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2. I have looked at the software
> menu (on x86_64 F19) and see lots of st
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Les Howell wrote:
> What is the key to getting MATE installed and run on a user?
>
sudo yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"
Will the GNOME3 version of Evolution, Firefox, etc all run?
>
Should do, but it's easier just to try it. If yo
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 01:43:28PM -0700, Dave Johansen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Les Howell wrote:
> > My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop. She did like GNOME2, so I have
> > found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2. I have looked at the
> > so
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Les Howell wrote:
> My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop. She did like GNOME2, so I have
> found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2. I have looked at the
> software menu (on x86_64 F19) and see lots of stuff related to MATE.
> What is t
Quoting Les Howell :
My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop. She did like GNOME2, so I have
found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2. I have looked at the
software menu (on x86_64 F19) and see lots of stuff related to MATE.
What is the key to getting MATE installed and run on a
My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop. She did like GNOME2, so I have
found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2. I have looked at the
software menu (on x86_64 F19) and see lots of stuff related to MATE.
What is the key to getting MATE installed and run on a user? Will the
GNOME3 versi
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:17:25 -0400
"Kevin J. Cummings" wrote:
>
> vdpau and XvMC
>
> When nouveau support them, I'll reconsider. Buts its been years now,
> and still no support for them in nouveau.
The development of XvMC and vdpau support is in progress right now ---
take a look at
http:/
On 07/23/2013 11:03 PM, Roger wrote:
> After that I tried to upgrade from nouveau to NVIDIA drivers.
>
> Why?
vdpau and XvMC
When nouveau support them, I'll reconsider. Buts its been years now,
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:29:30AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:22:42PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > On 07/19/2013 07:32 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > On F19 with Mate desktop, sometimes after login 8 or 9 or even 10 copies
> > > of Caja (Ma
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:22:42PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 07/19/2013 07:32 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On F19 with Mate desktop, sometimes after login 8 or 9 or even 10 copies
> > of Caja (Mate File Manger) are started up.
>
> Fred,
> I upgraded a test
After that I tried to upgrade from nouveau to NVIDIA drivers.
Why?
I have used the nouveau drivers since Fedora 16 they work very well and
it saved me a lot of heartache and time. I use mate on one system, Gnome
on another and cinnamon on the desktop.
I do graphic intensive work and developm
On 07/19/2013 07:32 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> On F19 with Mate desktop, sometimes after login 8 or 9 or even 10 copies
> of Caja (Mate File Manger) are started up.
Fred,
I upgraded a test F17 system to F18 using fedora-upgrade, and it seemed
successful. The next thing I did was to i
On F19 with Mate desktop, sometimes after login 8 or 9 or even 10 copies
of Caja (Mate File Manger) are started up.
Most of the time not, but perhaps once every day or two this will happen.
the rest of the time it's completely normal.
I found these /var/log/messages entries at around the
On 01/31/2013 06:12 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> I have a query from a non-subscriber.
> Is Mate Desktop included in F18-DVD.
>
It is not there on the DVD, but available for installation from the
Fedora repositories.
So if you are installing from DVD, you need to select from among Gnome
I have a query from a non-subscriber.
Is Mate Desktop included in F18-DVD.
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