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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How do I disable touchpad when using a mouse
I can disable my touchpad but if I'm away from my bluetooth mouse or forget my wireless dongle for my backup mouse, I'm SOL. Linux Mint had a nice setting that allowed the touchpad to be disabled ...
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How do I disable emoji input in Ubuntu Mate 18.04?
Just noticed this annoying emoji input ("Emoji Choice") popping up every time I press Ctrl+Shift+E in 18.04. I really need this shortcut to switch to the file explorer in Visual Studio Code but ...
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How do I remove an incomplete or broken snap installation of nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi?
First the caveat: I understand that this question involves Mate and a Raspberry Pi so if you consider it outside the realm of this forum just ignore it. But on the chance that it may be helpful or ...
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upowerd hogging CPU while iPhone is connected
It appears that upowerd is hogging my cpu time, I killed the process, but it has returned, and is climbing in resource consumption. Do I need upower? can I disable it?
I am using ubuntu Mate 16.04.
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Is it possible to avoid Firefox as Snap installation and keep deb-version on Ubuntu 21.10 flavor?
I have just installed fresh Ubuntu MATE 21.10 system.
Then I ran update-manager manually to check and get some new updates.
It showed a surprise for me - it will remove Firefox deb-package as shown on ...
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Cannot move VirtualBox window
I have a weired sympton with a fresh Windos 10 guest OS under VirtualBox 5.1.28 under Ubutunu-MATE 16.04:
I can't move the window at all, when [x] Auto Capture Keyboard is on.
Neither dragging the ...
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Remote Desktop -- blue screen after login
I've installed mate and xrdp on Ubuntu 18.04. Now I try to connect to this PC from another Ubuntu with Remmina:
I press OK, login window disappears background is same,nothing happens. My ~/.xsession ...
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Display brightness cannot be adjusted 18.04
I have recently installed Ubuntu mate 18.04 on my XPS 15 9560. I cannot adjust the display brightness through any means. I have tried the following:
Set the acpi_backlight=vendor in boot parameters
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tar.xz extracting error "xz: (stdin): File format not recognized"
I am trying to extract a .tar.xz file on my Ubuntu Mate computer. No matter what I do, I get this error:
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not ...
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How do I get my desktop Icons back on my primary display?
So, I have read several questions - with and without answers - and though this is similar to others, I have found nothing particular to the issues I am experiencing. It is a three-part problem and I ...
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PKCS Signature error/warnings running dmesg on Ubuntu Mate 18.04
I'm on a clean install of Ubuntu Mate 18.04, the system itself is working with no issues, but I am running dmesg to look at errors and warnings. I like to try to get them all dealt with if possible ...
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How to make Eclipse installed via snap use a differerent configuration when started from global menu
Files from software installed via snap are read-only. To configure Eclipse, however, we need to change its eclipse.ini file. How to do it so, when pressing the Super key and clicking on Eclipse's logo,...
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How to have more than 4 desktop spaces in Ubuntu mate
I have a pretty hefty computer and tend to use the extra work spaces a lot. But I want more than 4 because I often run applications in one work space and then switch to the next and run a different ...
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mapping between dconf dump output and gsettings schemas
For example :
dconf dump / | grep mouse
[org/mate/desktop/peripherals/mouse]
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So if I want to make a gsettings command based on this output, I look to gsettings to list the schemas, but....
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Sleep Timer to Suspend in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS [duplicate]
is there a way (best would be with GUI) to suspend my Computer after xx minutes?
I am using Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS and tried everything, including Power management.
Thanks, philipp
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