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* On small screens, the workspace switcher in the lower right corner is hard to click. A tweak to increase the size: Right-click the workspace switcher (for how-to see [[MATE#Input]]), click Preferences, double-click the first workspace name and change it to e.g. "- 1 -", change the second to "- 2 -" etc., finally check "Show workspace names in switcher". Pure spaces before/after the numbers are ignored, therefore a sign like the dash is needed. Between the number and the dashes, one or more spaces can be placed to "adjust" the size. Unfortunately, when showing the wokspace names, there is no miniature view of the windows placed on the workspaces. | * On small screens, the workspace switcher in the lower right corner is hard to click. A tweak to increase the size: Right-click the workspace switcher (for how-to see [[MATE#Input]]), click Preferences, double-click the first workspace name and change it to e.g. "- 1 -", change the second to "- 2 -" etc., finally check "Show workspace names in switcher". Pure spaces before/after the numbers are ignored, therefore a sign like the dash is needed. Between the number and the dashes, one or more spaces can be placed to "adjust" the size. Unfortunately, when showing the wokspace names, there is no miniature view of the windows placed on the workspaces. | ||
* When yellow comment labels like e.g. "Click to view month calender" remain visible due to some combination of clicks, a right-click on the according item (in this example on the clock) helps to get rid of the label. | * When yellow comment labels like e.g. "Click to view month calender" remain visible due to some combination of clicks, a right-click on the according item (in this example on the clock) helps to get rid of the label. | ||
* The classic menu with categories "Applications, Places, System" can be replaced by a more compact menu (remove the classic menu by right-click, add the classic menu by right-click, move the icon by right-click). The more advanced "MATE menu" ([https://screenshots.debian.net/package/mate-menu screenshot]) | * The classic menu with categories "Applications, Places, System" can be replaced by a more compact menu (remove the classic menu by right-click, add the classic menu by right-click, move the icon by right-click). The more advanced menus "Brisk Menu" ([https://screenshots.debian.net/package/mate-applet-brisk-menu screenshot]) and "MATE menu" ([https://screenshots.debian.net/package/mate-menu screenshot]) aren't packaged in Alpine Linux, unfortunately. | ||
* The default battery icon doesn't show the percentage. Here are two possibilities how to add this information. If you have a small screen and space in the panel is limited, richt-click the clock, preferences, uncheck "show the date". | * The default battery icon doesn't show the percentage. Here are two possibilities how to add this information. If you have a small screen and space in the panel is limited, richt-click the clock, preferences, uncheck "show the date". | ||
** Recommended: Right-click the upper panel in an empty area, add to panel, command, add, close, right-click the newly clock-looking icon, preferences, enter command <code>sh -c 'echo $(cat /sys/class/power_supply/rt5033-battery/capacity) %'</code> (adapt the battery path to your device), set the interval to e.g. 30 seconds, close, right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon (hard to hit), uncheck "lock to panel", right-click the new percentage icon, move, click on the clock (percentage icon jumps next to the clock), right-click the percentage icon, lock to panel, right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon, lock to panel. | ** Recommended: Right-click the upper panel in an empty area, add to panel, command, add, close, right-click the newly clock-looking icon, preferences, enter command <code>sh -c 'echo $(cat /sys/class/power_supply/rt5033-battery/capacity) %'</code> (adapt the battery path to your device), set the interval to e.g. 30 seconds, close, right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon (hard to hit), uncheck "lock to panel", right-click the new percentage icon, move, click on the clock (percentage icon jumps next to the clock), right-click the percentage icon, lock to panel, right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon, lock to panel. |
Revision as of 19:36, 11 October 2022
![]() Default MATE configuration running on samsung-serranove | |
Name | MATE |
---|---|
Graphics stack | Marco on X11 |
Toolkit | GTK 3 |
In postmarketOS | |
Package | postmarketos-ui-mate |
Status | Available |
MATE is a desktop environment forked from the maintained code base of GNOME 2. It is installable on postmarketOS. However, it's less touch-friendly and configurable than Xfce4.
Installation
Run pmbootstrap init
and choose mate
in the interface section.
Additional software can be added at pmbootstrap init
in step "Extra packages" or later on by sudo apk add ...
, see also MATE#Additional_software.
Panel
- On small screens, the workspace switcher in the lower right corner is hard to click. A tweak to increase the size: Right-click the workspace switcher (for how-to see MATE#Input), click Preferences, double-click the first workspace name and change it to e.g. "- 1 -", change the second to "- 2 -" etc., finally check "Show workspace names in switcher". Pure spaces before/after the numbers are ignored, therefore a sign like the dash is needed. Between the number and the dashes, one or more spaces can be placed to "adjust" the size. Unfortunately, when showing the wokspace names, there is no miniature view of the windows placed on the workspaces.
- When yellow comment labels like e.g. "Click to view month calender" remain visible due to some combination of clicks, a right-click on the according item (in this example on the clock) helps to get rid of the label.
- The classic menu with categories "Applications, Places, System" can be replaced by a more compact menu (remove the classic menu by right-click, add the classic menu by right-click, move the icon by right-click). The more advanced menus "Brisk Menu" (screenshot) and "MATE menu" (screenshot) aren't packaged in Alpine Linux, unfortunately.
- The default battery icon doesn't show the percentage. Here are two possibilities how to add this information. If you have a small screen and space in the panel is limited, richt-click the clock, preferences, uncheck "show the date".
- Recommended: Right-click the upper panel in an empty area, add to panel, command, add, close, right-click the newly clock-looking icon, preferences, enter command
sh -c 'echo $(cat /sys/class/power_supply/rt5033-battery/capacity) %'
(adapt the battery path to your device), set the interval to e.g. 30 seconds, close, right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon (hard to hit), uncheck "lock to panel", right-click the new percentage icon, move, click on the clock (percentage icon jumps next to the clock), right-click the percentage icon, lock to panel, right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon, lock to panel. - Alternatively, install packages
mate-indicator-applet
andayatana-indicator-power
, right-click the upper panel in an empty erea, add to panel, indicator applet complete, add, close, log out (system -> logout user), log in (happens automatically by default), there should be a new battery icon, open a terminal and enter the commandgsettings set org.ayatana.indicator.power show-percentage true
(if doing this via ssh, prependDISPLAY=:0
), now there should be the percentage next to the new battery icon, go to system -> preferences -> hardware -> power management -> tab general -> choose "never display an icon" (this disabled the default battery icon), right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon (hard to hit), uncheck "lock to panel", right-click the new battery icon, move, click on the clock (new battery icon jumps next to the clock), right-click the new battery icon, lock to panel, right-click the three dots left of the speaker icon, lock to panel.
- Recommended: Right-click the upper panel in an empty area, add to panel, command, add, close, right-click the newly clock-looking icon, preferences, enter command
Display
Follow the Display guide to optionally change it to landscape mode or fix display related issues.
Input
- To simulate right mouse clicks with the touchscreen, long-click the return key of the onboard keyboard to get some mouse click options at the right side of the keyboard. For other possibilities of right mouse click emulation, see Input_methods#Simulate_secondary_click.
- Clicking the onboard icon in the panel shows or hides the virtual keyboard. In the settings of onboard, a bigger floating icon for show/hide can be enabled.
- If you can't grab something by touchscreen, use the keyboard (tab key to go through the elements, arrow keys to choose).
- Hiding the cursor is done by autostart command
unclutter-xfixes --start-hidden --hide-on-touch
(just for information).
Lock screen
The screen lock kicks in when the screen saver gets active. For unlocking, onboard keyboard with layout "Phone" is called.
For devices with a hardware keyboard, this is unfavorable. The virtual keyboard can be disabled by command gesttings set org.mate.screensaver embedded-keyboard-enabled false
.
For touch devices with bigger screen, the layout can be changed to e.g. "Compact" by gesettings set org.mate.screensaver embedded-keyboard-command 'onboard -e -l Compact'
. For more options of the onboard command see e.g. debian manpage.
The onboard keyboard takes quite some time to show up when unlocking. Alternatively, matchbox-keyboard
can be installed and then applied by gsettings set org.mate.screensaver embedded-keyboard-command 'matchbox-keyboard --xid'
. However, it's not as configurable as the onboard keyboard.
LightDM
Autologin is configured by default. If you want to use LightDM as a login screen, see Display_manager#LightDM how to set this up.
Disk management
With the set of installed software, additional drives are not shown in the file manager. Install package udisks2
to make them available. (For more information see also pmaports#1377.)
As a graphical interface for formatting drives or image writing, e.g. package gnome-disk-utility
can be installed (this installs udisks2
as well). After installation, it's at Accessories -> Disks.
Bluetooth
For bluetooth management package blueman
is installed.
The tray icon needs right-clicking (for right-clicking see MATE#Input above). Alternatively use System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Bluetooth Adapters and Bluetooth Manager, and sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth
or block
respectively to enable/disable.
The audio output can be changed at System -> Settings -> Other -> PulseAudio Volume Control -> Output Devices -> click the check button at the device you want to use.
For more information and troubleshooting see Xfce4#Bluetooth and Bluetooth.
Additional software
udisks2
to make "removable" drives available.- As a browser, install e.g.
firefox
orfirefox-esr
. To enable touch screen behaviour, add a new filesudo vi /etc/profile.d/firefox-touch-scrolling.sh
and writeexport MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1
, inabout:config
changedom.w3c.touch_events.enabled
from 2 (default, auto-detect) to 1 (enabled). For better touch screen usability, install packagemobile-config-firefox
(more information). - For phone applications, try
calls
,chatty
andgnome-contacts
, which are used in Phosh. Packagemodemmanager
needs to be installed (gets installed automatically with these packages), start the service bysudo rc-service modemmanager start
, add it permanently bysudo rc-update add modemmanager default
and reboot. - To view PDF files, install package
atril
, for alternatives see PDF#PDF_viewers. - Graphical interface for formatting drives or writing images e.g.
gnome-disk-utility
. alsa-utils
to investigate sound issues, it contains commandsalsamixer
,aplay
,arecord
, which are helpful.
Gallery
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MATE running on Samsung Galaxy S Advance (i9070)