Mate Desktop

[Sproggy]

Hi All ...

i will be uploading to the testing section of the 32bit repo the Mate Desktop rpm's for testing ...

these are purely alpha and can and will break a working install ... i would advise only testing in VM at the moment and not a production system

http://phinxdesktop.slyip.net/images/mate.png

Please leave all findings and testing here ... Please also be advised that this is a requested environment and is not the default for Phinx ... my knowledge in testing and tweaking is limited with this environment so testing is only for advanced users who know what they are doing

Kori

[Louis King Jr]

Kori, I am going to test MATE simply because I have it installed on a few other distros but this may seem like a dumb question but do I need to add something other than "unsupported" to your repo? say something like "testing? thanks.

[Sproggy]

Hi Louis ....

i am currently syncing the repo ... but yes add testing to your repo ...

Kori :D

[Louis King Jr]

danke :)

[Louis King Jr]

okay well, I installed everything I could find or think of related to MATE but when I try to log in to the MATE session, I just get a black screen with a busy cursor. I must of missed some packages.

[Sproggy]

i had that at first ... hang onwill upload an archive of the mateconf directories to put in ya /home/user directory

have patience lol

[Louis King Jr]

okie doke

[Sproggy]

ok download and extract the following to your /home/user directory ... these are the mat configuration directories .... GDM has a few issues creating them

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5639762/mate.tar.xz

then reboot .... at gdm screen select 05MATE as the session and choose for this time only ... it will apply the extracted configs then :D

[Louis King Jr]

well, lol, I got to a desktop however, none of the windows have titlebars and there is some strange graphics glitch.

[Sproggy]

in terminal run marco --replace ... that should give you your window borders back and resolve desktop glitches ... if that doesnt work ... install metacity for now until i can figure out what has happened

[Louis King Jr]

this is running really slowly like the cpu is at 100%

here's what I got when I ran maro --replace
[louis@phinx ~]$ marco --replace
Window manager warning: "(null)" found in configuration database is not a valid value for mouse button modifier
**
marco:ERROR:core/prefs.c:2482:meta_prefs_get_workspace_name: assertion failed: (workspace_names[i] != NULL)
Aborted

[Louis King Jr]

btw, this didn't seem to break the xfce session except alt-f2 no longer brings up the command line.