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

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2 created as an alternative to the new approach to the desktop used by GNOME 3 and in response to the drop of support for GNOME 2. MATE uses a more traditional desktop metaphor, compared to GNOME Shell or Unity.

Its stated focus is on improving, refining and maintaining the vitality of the GNOME 2 style desktop environment

MATE desktop fully supports GTK+ 3 as of version 1.14.0, released in April 2016.

Screenshot of MATE on Ubuntu, from SuperUser

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What's the difference between ubuntu-mate and ubuntu?

I understand MATE is a desktop environment, but what is the difference between ubuntu with a MATE desktop environment and ubuntu-mate ? EDIT: Difference Between Ubuntu and Ubuntu-Gnome is not a duplicate of my question because there is a dedicated…
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How do I pronounce Mate

I always wondered how do I pronounce Mate in 'Ubuntu Mate'. I am listening to a podcast and one of the two people always says 'mahteh'. It sounds very weird to me, because I pronounce it 'mate' like the english word for friend. There is also…
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MATE menu is missing

I have freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I installed MATE using apt-get install mate-desktop-environment (and before that, I added needed repositories from mate official website). Everything worked fine. However, when I started a MATE session, it…
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Will MATE ever be in the official repos?

I was wondering if mate will ever show up in the official repos and be installable without the ppa?
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install mate desktop core on 18.04

Is there a way to install the core of the mate desktop on Ubuntu, without all of the extras that come with this method (ubuntu-mate-desktop): How do I install MATE (the desktop environment)? I can obviously remove all of the extra stuff,…
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Does Ubuntu comes with MATE flavor?

I know about Linux Mint, but is there any 'Ubuntu' out there with MATE?
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How to do I install gddrescue and ddrescuegui on Ubuntu Mate 18.04.2?

I've installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.2 to its own 40GB partition on an 80GB HDD. The computer is online, and I've updated Ubuntu with all offered updates. I want to run ddrescue to copy files from an ailing drive to a new one. Both drives are the same…
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Restore MATE Applications menu without mozo

While attempting to edit the MATE menu via mozo, I tried to drag a folder to a different position, and the next thing I knew was that the entire menu was empty. When I now open the Applications menu, I get a completely empty menu. When I try to edit…
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MATE system settings

I have Ubuntu 15.04 and using MATE. I am unable to find the tool for settings system preferences. Anybody know what to do about this?
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How to upgrade Mate 1.6 to 1.8 in Ubuntu 12.04

I installed Mate using the official directions (http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download) but it installed 1.6 instead of 1.8. How can I upgrade in Ubuntu 12.04?
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How can I set panel to bottom, after installing MATE 1.4?

How can I move the Ubuntu 12.10 top panel to bottom, after installing MATE 1.4? How can I do that after removing it from top ?
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Is there a way to use Window Spread in MATE?

I run Precise with Unity3D on my primary laptop, and have grown very fond of the Window Spread feature in Compiz, which I have set to be activated with a top-left Hot Corner. I have recently acquired an HP Mini 210 and have installed Precise on it…
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Run Mate without using a different operating system

Is it possible to use MATE Desktop on top of standard LTS Ubuntu? I would like to try MATE. But I would like to stick with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
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Cannot install Mate Desktop

After installing Mate Desktop sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-core ubuntu-mate-desktop I got some errors so I run sudo apt-get -f install but I got these errors: tomsk@tomsk-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists...…
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Converting Ubuntu to Ubuntu Mate Problem!

I tried converting Ubuntu to Ubuntu mate using sudo apt-get install mate-desktop and I supposedly removed the Gnome desktop but my screen appears blank. Even in the screen shots it appears but in reality it isn't.
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