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A fork of GNOME 2 that offers a more traditional desktop environment.

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Open new Mate-Terminal in home folder

Googlers, if you rather want to open a new terminal tab (to have some convenience, while keeping the old tab open...) mate-terminal --tab --working-directory=/home/frank/mount/bare see man mate-terminal …
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Adjust window resize sensitivity

Annoying, old bug, also mentioned elsewhere. Changing your current theme (see here) would be the most perfect option. The easiest one, withou changes, is probably: be near the window border (in a ge …
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3 votes
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LibreOffice 7.1 Writer flickers and crashes

I am using Libreoffice 7.1.4.2 under Ubuntu-MATE 21.04. According to the LO's about dialog: User Interface: UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 I only use the text processing „Writer“, nothing else. …
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Skype minify under Ubuntu-Mate

I am running Skype 8.20 under Ubuntu-MATE 16.04. …
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Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 - missing Network Connections

I did another attempt (with no significant changes anywhere) to add the indicator applet. Now I got it including all I wanted, also the crucial ↑↓ bit (the nm-applet aka networkmanager, afaik). Includ …
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How to hide a specific mate-panel in Ubuntu?

if [ "$hide" == "true" ] then #unhiding dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/bottom/auto-hide false dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/bottom/size 140 dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/ … bottom/orientation "right" else #hiding dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/bottom/auto-hide true dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/bottom/size 2 dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/bottom …
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Can't use Win+E / Mod4+E shortcut under Ubuntu 18.04

As it turns out, the ibus package isn't even installed at all in Ubuntu MATE 18.04. Also, setting the general language input method from ibus to none in general language settings is not helping. … this got hardwired into Ubuntu 18… The only thing that does work I found on superuser: $> gnome-language-selector set "Keyboard input method system: XIM" (apply system-wide is not necessary.) $> mate-session-save …
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2 votes
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Screen refresh / repaint issues with Ubuntu MATE both 16.04 and 18.04

I am using two different Lenovo laptops and even two different Ubuntu-MATE versions 16.04 and 18.04, yet ever since I started with Ubuntu, I suffer refresh / repaint problems (on a multitude of monitors …
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Ubuntu 21.04 – make rectangular area screenshots by keyboard shortcut

Credits go to @24601 for his comment above (post an answer, 24601, and I will accept it) sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:linuxuprising/shutter sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -q -y shutter In …
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3 votes
1 answer
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Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 - missing Network Connections

I have a shiny new Lenovo P14s 2nd gen ( installed with dual boot, Win10 and… ) Ubuntu MATE 20.04.2 LTS. And I can't connect by Wi-Fi. …
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Ubuntu 21.04 – make rectangular area screenshots by keyboard shortcut

I have used a keyboard short calling shutter -s and making an rectengular area screenshot under Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 for many years. No problems ever. … already running... the redundant call would simply do it's job of captuing (and or tell the original instance, either way, no problem, proper capture, proper display in shutter window) Now, under Ubuntu-MATE
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Skype minify under Ubuntu-Mate

Gotcha :-) I apparently had forgotten, that I manually added Skype to ‚autostart‘ (learning that right now, trying to disable its autostart behaviour. Which neither works from the regular internal sk …
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2 votes
1 answer
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How to hide a specific mate-panel in Ubuntu?

I often want to hide my sidebar (from mate-panel's point of view it is called the bottom panel). Just to have more space. And unhide it, with a keyboard shortcut. …
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1 vote
1 answer
340 views

Can't use Win+E / Mod4+E shortcut under Ubuntu 18.04

I am having problems in Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 to use the Windows-E shortcut alias Mod4+E to start caja (the standard “File Explorer” of MATE). … this worked flawlessly on multiple Ubuntu-MATE 16.x machines. also: SHIFT+Mod4+E does work(!) Who or what captures my Win-E under 18.x? …
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2 votes
1 answer
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mate-panel: Finding auto-hide in dconf editor [closed]

Most parameters in the mate-panel properties directly relate in the dconf editor to /org/mate/panel/toplevels/top/ resp. … $> dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/bottom/auto-hide true $> dconf write /org/mate/panel/toplevels/bottom/auto-hide false …
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