Questions tagged [ubuntu-mate]
Ubuntu MATE is an official flavor of Ubuntu, using the MATE desktop environment. Use this tag for questions specific to this flavor.
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Unable To Change The Voice In Orca To Use Festival In Ubuntu 18.04
I am assisting a blind friend with the transition from Windows to Linux. We have installed Ubuntu-MATE 18.04. Unfortunately, he hates the default voice used by Orca, and we have thus far been ...
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Disable global search in GTK file chooser
As of Ubuntu Mate 19.04, the "Open File" dialog (GtkFileChooserDialog) will search through the whole file system instead of just the current folder whenever I start typing. How can I revert this to ...
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How to set the Preferred applications on Ubuntu MATE 20.04, for a given user?
On Ubuntu MATE 18.04, I could add and set preferred applications, for a given user, this way:
# Create an application entry
cat > ~/.local/share/applications/browser.desktop << EOF
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No sound - Ubuntu Mate 21.04 + Chromebook
When I open sound settings, No profile options are listed for "Built-in audio" except for "Off".
Machine is a Acer Chromebook Spin 713 with MrChromeBox coreboot firmware and Ubuntu ...
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Monitor rotation is disabled in Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 on Raspberry Pi 3
I opened Monitor Preferences dialog in Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 on Raspberry Pi 3 and clicking on Rotation button shows only Normal option. Is there a way to set portrait (90 degrees rotation) mode?
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Webcam / Video Playback Problems in Ubuntu MATE 15.10
I have tried both Cheese and guvcview. The vids play back fine in the recording apps themselves, but when I load them up in VLC, OpenShot, or Cinelerra, all I get is the initial frame (frozen) and the ...
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Taking screenshots is suddenly very slow
Lately, I have noticed that mate-screenshot has become very slow. I keep up with the 20.04 LTS updates, and I don't know what packages were updated recently that caused this.
Interestingly, the ...
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Alt+* has to be pressed twice in Mate 18.04
After upgrading to Ubuntu Mate 18.04, I have to press Alt+Tab or other Alt+something combos twice to get them work. Very annoying.
I walked through all thinkable options, and can't find where it can ...
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Can't enlarge swap partition on LVM - 256 extents needed, but only 0 available
some days ago I installed the latest release candidate of Ubuntu (mate) 17.04 on my PC and configured it for LVM usage.
I just have 4Gb of RAM and I found out that the swap space created on my SSD ...
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Ubuntu MATE window list app icon rows
After I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.04, the Window List app at the bottom of my screen displays two rows for the window buttons. This is hard on my eyes. I'd like to have just one row, like it was before I ...
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Generic ASM1064 4-Port SATA Controller works under Manjaro but not under Ubuntu, why?
I've just installed a generic SATA PCIe x1 4-port controller in my Ubuntu 21.10 Mate, (with kernel 5.13) box and found it didn't work. (Well the drives were detected but gparted hangs and errors). It ...
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Ubuntu MATE 21.04: Keyboard shortcut to show notifications list
I'm trying to find keyboard shortcuts to:
(1) Show notifications list
(2) Clear notifications list
I have gone through this AskUbuntu thread:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1325785/create-a-custom-...
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Menu Bar missing in LibreOffice 6 under Ubuntu 20.04
desperate Question:
How do I get the menu bar back in LibreOffice 6?
Above you see: LibreOffice 5.1 under my old faithful Ubuntu-MATE 16.04.
Below you see: LibreOffice 6.4 under fresh installed ...
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Zoom not closing properly
I have Zoom installed as a snap.
When I close Zoom, it stays in memory as shown in top.
And if I start it again it just creates more copies in memory.
I then have to
killall -9 zoom
Is there a fix?
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dnet: Failed to open device wlan0
I'm running the latest version of MATE on a raspberry pi 3B+. Nmap works fine on a standard account, but I want to use the -O param, which requires root privs.
i ran nmap 192.168.1.0/24 -p 22,80,443 -...
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