MATE Desktop

On the way to get MATE officially available on OpenSUSE, the community repositories have to be changed in YaST. For that, go to YaST -> Software -> Software Repositories and remove X11:MATE:Factory repo and next, click on the following links … Continue reading →

On July 20th Stefano presented his talk on MATE at openSUSE Conference!

The team is proud to announce the release of MATE Desktop 1.6. This release is a giant step forward from the 1.4 release. In this release, we have replaced many deprecated packages and libraries with new technologies available in GLib. … Continue reading →

The team is proud to announce the new themes for MATE 1.6. Menta will be the default theme for the upcoming new release. It consists of a nice GTK2/3 theme (based on Mint-Z Improved, no longer maintained, customized for MATE … Continue reading →

There are a lot of people in the world who get access to their GNU/Linux desktops via thin clients, and one of the longest running thin client projects out there is the LTSP project. The MATE desktop offers a fantastic … Continue reading →

We’re proud to announce our newest package on GitHub: MATE University! It will be targeted at all levels of developers (including beginners) to learn how to develop new panel applets, Caja (file manager) extensions, pluma (text editor) and eom (image … Continue reading →

In MATE 1.6 mate-notification-daemon has a new feature that allows users to select which monitor they want to display notifications on. The current behavior only displays notifications on the monitor which is currently active (where the pointer is). The behavior … Continue reading →

First Colo, operating a top modern data center in Germany, is going to switch to MATE Desktop in their offices, and donated us a new dedicated server to support our work. We like to thank Martin Verges and his staff … Continue reading →

UPDATE 11/11/2012: I’ve been told that the repo is back up. I’ve also been made aware that the Dropbox repo and the repo included in Fedora conflict and can make the desktop unusable. Please consult #fedora-mate for help if you … Continue reading →

Recently, Clement Lefebvre of Linux Mint has had discussions with the developers of Geany about possibly creating a lightweight version of Geany (we’ll call it Geany Lite in this post). At this point, Geany Lite is nothing more than an … Continue reading →