Mate Desktop Environment - GNOME2 fork

VlaoMao · 2011-11-22 16:01:57

Why so? There is a dark theme for each

nixIT · 2011-11-24 00:33:22

Hello all,

Has anyone tried gaming under wine while running Mate?

--k

Perberos · 2011-11-24 01:43:21

yes, gaming is the main reason of the born of MATE.

If you have nvidia, and do a recently update, try reboot first.

VlaoMao wrote:

Why so? There is a dark theme for each
http://imagepost.ru/thumbs/p/ro/prob.png

I fixed it recenlty.

https://matsusoft.com.ar/uploads/perber … 124_48.png

Last edited by Perberos (2011-11-24 21:11:19)

Kopfweh · 2011-11-24 21:08:51

nixIT wrote:

Hello all,
Has anyone tried gaming under wine while running Mate?
--k

Perberos wrote:

yes, gaming is the main reason of the born of MATE.
If you have nvidia, and do a recently update, try reboot first.

Yes indeed, I loved playing with Gnome2! I'm playing with PlayOnLinux(.com), a graphical frontend for wine in Mate and both games that I love, Age of Empires 3 as well as Company of Heroes are working perfectly with the proprietary nvidia-driver and wine-version set to 1.3.33(the newest one).

nixIT · 2011-11-25 03:36:20

Kopfweh wrote:

Perberos wrote:
yes, gaming is the main reason of the born of MATE.
If you have nvidia, and do a recently update, try reboot first.
Yes indeed, I loved playing with Gnome2! I'm playing with PlayOnLinux(.com), a graphical frontend for wine in Mate and both games that I love, Age of Empires 3 as well as Company of Heroes are working perfectly with the proprietary nvidia-driver and wine-version set to 1.3.33(the newest one).

Thanks all that responded. First thing in the AM, Mate is going on my machine.

Once you installed Mate, did you uninstall Gnome 3?

One other question, what is the preferred way to install Mate? through AUR, or one of the 2 Mate repos mentioned in the Wiki?

--nixIT

Last edited by nixIT (2011-11-25 03:37:32)

nixIT · 2011-11-25 14:55:27

hey gang,

having some trouble installing mate. I tried from AUR, but kept getting errors saying I didn't have package "xyz" (mate-common was the first one) installed.

I then tried adding the Mate repo:

[mate]
# Contains official mate desktop packages
Server = http://matsusoft.com.ar/repository/archlinux/mate/$arch

and when I run pacman -S mate, I get the following:

libmateweather-201... 13.8M 53.3K/s 00:04:24 [######################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'mate-backgrounds-2011.11.16-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from matsusoft.com.ar
error: failed retrieving file 'mate-icon-theme-2011.11.16-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from matsusoft.com.ar
mate-session-manag... 295.1K 694.5K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
mate-themes-2011.1... 2.0M 185.7K/s 00:00:11 [######################] 100%
warning: failed to retrieve some files from mate
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Am I doing something incorrectly?

--nixIT

nixIT · 2011-11-25 17:01:18

I seem to have installed, but not sure if done correctly.

per this link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MA … plications

I cannot run mate-conf, or any of the extras, I get:

bash: mate-terminal: command not found

yet, caja works.

--k

VlaoMao · 2011-11-26 10:51:34

nixIT wrote:

hey gang,
having some trouble installing mate. I tried from AUR, but kept getting errors saying I didn't have package "xyz" (mate-common was the first one) installed.
I then tried adding the Mate repo:
[mate]
# Contains official mate desktop packages
Server = http://matsusoft.com.ar/repository/archlinux/mate/$arch
and when I run pacman -S mate, I get the following:
libmateweather-201... 13.8M 53.3K/s 00:04:24 [######################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'mate-backgrounds-2011.11.16-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from matsusoft.com.ar
error: failed retrieving file 'mate-icon-theme-2011.11.16-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from matsusoft.com.ar
mate-session-manag... 295.1K 694.5K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
mate-themes-2011.1... 2.0M 185.7K/s 00:00:11 [######################] 100%
warning: failed to retrieve some files from mate
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Am I doing something incorrectly?
--nixIT

try
Server = ftp://tridex.net/repo/archlinux/mate/$arch

VlaoMao · 2011-11-26 10:54:24

VlaoMao wrote:

Why so? There is a dark theme for each
http://imagepost.ru/thumbs/p/ro/prob.png
I fixed it recenlty.
https://matsusoft.com.ar/uploads/perber … 124_48.png

there the whole applet "notification area" has wrong color

nixIT · 2011-11-26 11:56:18

VlaoMao wrote:

try
Server = ftp://tridex.net/repo/archlinux/mate/$arch

When I use that server and perform a pacman -Syyu, I get this:

:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: mate-document-viewer: local (2011.11.21-1) is newer than mate (2011.11.09-2)

karol · 2011-11-26 12:19:11

nixIT wrote:

VlaoMao wrote:
try
Server = ftp://tridex.net/repo/archlinux/mate/$arch
When I use that server and perform a pacman -Syyu, I get this:
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: mate-document-viewer: local (2011.11.21-1) is newer than mate (2011.11.09-2)

For some reason the 64-bit repo has the current and the older versions present: ftp://tridex.net/repo/archlinux/mate/x86_64/

File:mate-document-viewer-2011.11.09-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 	1128 KB 	22.11.2011 	18:32:00
File:mate-document-viewer-2011.11.09-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 	1129 KB 	22.11.2011 	18:32:00
File:mate-document-viewer-2011.11.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 	1152 KB 	22.11.2011 	18:32:00

nixIT · 2011-11-26 15:15:58

I currently have mate installed, uninstalled gnome 3. when I uninstalled gnome 3, I lost sound in mate. Any way to get the sound back?

I checked alsaconf and alsamixer, all channels are on, and my SB card is the default.

Perberos · 2011-11-26 22:56:25

sorry for the mess

about sound, install mate-applets, and then add it.

nixIT · 2011-11-26 23:20:14

Perberos wrote:

sorry for the mess
about sound, install mate-applets, and then add it.

Thanks, this gave me the volume applet, however, still no sound. I think I need to get into the "Volume control" and when I click on that through the volume applet, I receive an error:

Failed to start Volume Control: Failed to execute child process "mate-volume-control" (No such file or directory)

If I do a complete re-install of arch, and then choose Mate as my Desktop Environment, would the volume work then?

I don't think this issue is a mate issue, but more of a F'ed up alsa in arch.

hope I can get it fixed without a re-install.

--nixIT

biert · 2011-11-27 02:47:42

Perberos, you are doing great work, thank you very much, you make my arch work faster, it`s great.

biert · 2011-11-27 02:53:57

nixIT wrote:

Perberos wrote:
sorry for the mess
about sound, install mate-applets, and then add it.
Thanks, this gave me the volume applet, however, still no sound. I think I need to get into the "Volume control" and when I click on that through the volume applet, I receive an error:
Failed to start Volume Control: Failed to execute child process "mate-volume-control" (No such file or directory)
If I do a complete re-install of arch, and then choose Mate as my Desktop Environment, would the volume work then?
I don't think this issue is a mate issue, but more of a F'ed up alsa in arch.
hope I can get it fixed without a re-install.
--nixIT

try to install alsa-utils or alsa-plugins or if you use pulseaudio install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa

Last edited by biert (2011-11-27 02:55:43)

nixIT · 2011-11-27 04:00:51

biert wrote:

try to install alsa-utils or alsa-plugins or if you use pulseaudio install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa

Thanx,

I ran through the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa#Installation

multiple times, everything checks out, just no sound.

went all the way down to the "Configuration" section, which I know I didn't have to go through when I installed Arch a couple months ago.

any ideas?

--nixIT

nixIT · 2011-11-27 13:38:47

Check out my post here, I have a part of my problem solved: Moving the rest of my sound issues to this thread.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130964

if you have any ideas, would appreciate it.

--nixIT

Perberos · 2011-11-27 14:53:42

maybe the problem is pulseaudio. Try with and without, do not forget to reboot.

mate-volume-control is on mate-media package.

Last edited by Perberos (2011-11-27 14:55:14)

nixIT · 2011-11-27 16:10:06

Perberos wrote:

maybe the problem is pulseaudio. Try with and without, do not forget to reboot.
mate-volume-control is on mate-media package.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried to install mate-media

pacman -S mate-media

and I got a target not found.

Should we be using Mate from AUR or from the other repositories?

--nixIT

ps. Great job so far Perberos!!!

Last edited by nixIT (2011-11-27 20:05:09)

karol · 2011-11-27 17:48:21

mate-media is in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53259

nixIT · 2011-11-28 23:15:37

think I just fubared my system. Uninstalled mate, didn't reboot yet, but instead installed via AUR:

yaourt -S mate-desktop-environment

everything looked cool up until:

Continue building libmatecomponent ? [Y/n]
==> ------------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for libmatecomponent:
The URL http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=multiinfo&arg[]=mate-corba returned error : 500
==> Restart building libmatecomponent ? [y/N]
==> -----------------------------------------

uhhh. not sure what to do.

NEVERMIND: installed bison and a few other things that were not installed.

--nixIT

Last edited by nixIT (2011-11-28 23:34:59)

flaque · 2011-11-28 23:55:25

I have a question: Why is mate EULA licensed???

nixIT · 2011-11-29 03:48:53

Me again.

when I try to install mate-text-editor from AUR, I am getting this:

 Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading mate-text-editor.tar.gz...
--2011-11-28 22:47:16--  http://matsusoft.com.ar/uploads/gnu-linux/mate/mate-text-editor.tar.gz
Resolving matsusoft.com.ar... 190.49.55.43
Connecting to matsusoft.com.ar|190.49.55.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2011-11-28 22:47:17 ERROR 404: Not Found.

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading mate-text-editor.tar.gz
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build mate-text-editor.
==> Restart building mate-text-editor ? [y/N]
==> -----------------------------------------
==>

is there something I can change to get it to install?

--nixIT

nixIT · 2011-11-29 17:21:32

should we be using the AUR for mate, or one of the other repositories? What's the preferred method for installing/updating mate?

--nixIT

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