I know I should go to EPEL with this, but thought to ask here in case anyone else uses Mate and may know more about it than I do.
I had installed the MATE 1.12 packages from epel testing a few days ago, but since that did not include some of the devel packages, I just removed it and reinstalled all the MATE 1.10 packages from epel-7.
they all installed fine, but now my desktop has a background, and top and bottom panels and nothing else. right-click on the desktop produces no context menu.
Anyone know what I've missed (or messed) ?
thanks!
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
Anyone know what I've missed (or messed) ?
It might be an issue with a version mismatch of configuration files and settings.
I'd log out of the graphical environment, switch to a text console (or boot to a non-graphical systemd target) and attempt to reset the MATE settings for your user.
mv ~/.config/mate ~/.config/mate_old
Brandon Vincent
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 08:27:01PM -0700, Brandon Vincent wrote:
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
Anyone know what I've missed (or messed) ?
It might be an issue with a version mismatch of configuration files and settings.
I'd log out of the graphical environment, switch to a text console (or boot to a non-graphical systemd target) and attempt to reset the MATE settings for your user.
mv ~/.config/mate ~/.config/mate_old
don't seem to have .config/mate or .config/mate_old.
but after doing some more work getting rid of 1.12 files and replacing them with the 1.10 ones, more stuff is working... i.e., all the desktop stuff reappeared as if by magic while I was looking at something else.
There is one minor nit left, perhaps you can suggest a solution: the right-click menu on the desktop wallpaper used to have an entry for "open in terminal" but it now doesn't. Any idea how to re-add it?
thanks!
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 01:03:12 -0500 Fred Smith wrote:
There is one minor nit left, perhaps you can suggest a solution: the right-click menu on the desktop wallpaper used to have an entry for "open in terminal" but it now doesn't. Any idea how to re-add it?
yum install caja-open-terminal
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 12:07:43AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 01:03:12 -0500 Fred Smith wrote:
There is one minor nit left, perhaps you can suggest a solution: the right-click menu on the desktop wallpaper used to have an entry for "open in terminal" but it now doesn't. Any idea how to re-add it?
yum install caja-open-terminal
Thanks Frank! will test that as soon as I get back to that computer.
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 04:49:41PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 12:07:43AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 01:03:12 -0500 Fred Smith wrote:
There is one minor nit left, perhaps you can suggest a solution: the right-click menu on the desktop wallpaper used to have an entry for "open in terminal" but it now doesn't. Any idea how to re-add it?
yum install caja-open-terminal
Thanks Frank! will test that as soon as I get back to that computer.
Yes, that did the trick. Thanks, again!
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 22:22:23 -0500 Fred Smith wrote:
they all installed fine, but now my desktop has a background, and top and bottom panels and nothing else. right-click on the desktop produces no context menu.
add caja to startup applications if desktop icons are missing
hi there I'm currently testing mate desktop on epel 7, I don't find issue yet. I'm sure than your issue is mix of packages testing and stable packages.
feedback is welcome.
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:59:37PM -0600, Peter Q. wrote:
hi there I'm currently testing mate desktop on epel 7, I don't find issue yet. I'm sure than your issue is mix of packages testing and stable packages.
probably you're right. I did find some more 1.12 stuff lurking in dark corners, removed those and reinstalled to no obvious benefit, but after a while all the desktop bits reappeared.
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