Tuesday, October 6, 2015

MATE Desktop 1.10.0 Released, Install on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Install MATE Desktop 1.10.0 on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana


MATE is an open source desktop environment, a fork of the GNOME 2 window manager, specifically designed to be used by Linux OS developers who want to create lightweight, yet usable distributions that run on low-end computers.

Similar to GNOME Classic

Just like the GNOME desktop environment, MATE is comprised of several independent packages, which means that users can install the base and then add as many packages as they want.

Default applications

When taking a peek inside the desktop environment, we can immediately notice the Caja file manager forked from Nautilus, Pluma text editor forked from Gedit, Eye of MATE image viewer forked from Eye of GNOME, and Atril document viewer forked from Evince.

Additionally, the Engrampa compression utility is a fork of File Roller, the terminal emulator app is called MATE Terminal and it’s a fork of GNOME Terminal, and the Marco window manager has been forked from Metacity.

What's new in MATE 1.10.0:
  • Turn MateRRScreen, GnomeRRConfig and GnomeOutputInfo into a GObject. Thanks to monsta for helping to test this.
  • Add gobject introspection
  • Many RANDR fixes
  • interface: add automatic-mnemonics key for Gtk xsetting
  • use GDK_WINDOW_XID for inter-GTK compatibility
  • Updated mpaste for website change
  • Added org.mate.debug GSettings schema
  • Added MateColorButton class to have traditional color selection dialog with GTK3
  • Removed desktop-docs
  • Removed user guide
  • Removed libunique optional dependency
  • Added MateAboutDialog class to have traditional about dialog with GTK3 too

How to install Mate 1.10.0 on Ubuntu 14.10 systems:

Add the needed PPAs to your system and update the local repository index:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/utopic-mate
$ sudo apt-get update
Install the minimal MATE desktop:
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core
Install the complete MATE desktop:
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Install the complete MATE desktop + some extras:
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras

How to install Mate 1.10.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 systems:

Add the needed PPAs to your system and update the local repository index:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/trusty-mate
$ sudo apt-get update
Install the minimal MATE desktop:
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core
Install the complete MATE desktop:
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Install the complete MATE desktop + some extras:
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras

How to install Mate 1.10.0 on Linux Mint 17.1 and Linux Mint 17 systems:

Add the needed PPAs to your system and update the local repository index:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/trusty-mate
$ sudo apt-get update
Install the complete MATE desktop for Linux Mint:
$ apt-get install mint-meta-mate

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

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