MATE-Desktop for fedora

[lovyagin]

Oh, thank you a lot for extra packages on Fedora 18, but is there any chance to install MDM and mdm-user-switch-applet on Fedora 18? Old version are incompatible... or maybe to make user-switch-applet some other DM-friendly?

[raveit65]

Sorry,
i postet first a wrong installation link on Wednesday morning.
The first link was for a privat repo which includes Mate-1.4.0.
If you have used this link
dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-18/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-release-18-1.fc18.noarch.rpm
revert all changes.
Pls, remove the release package 'mate-desktop-release'.
Than remove all installed packages from the dropbox repo,
and downgrade all updated packages back to fedora's version.
To revert all changes in yum use:

sudo yum history

and

sudo yum history info <id>

The right download link is

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-18/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-18-1.fc18.noarch.rpm

This repo link doesn't update any fedora package.
MDM and mdm-user-switch-applet aren't include in this repo because of changes with mare-panel-1.5 and missing patches in fedora's mate-desktop, mate-session and caja.

Big sorry for that confusion

[raveit65]

compiz packages are in updates-testing now.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=287822

[ddan]

Greetings,

In on Fedora 17 and I would like to use the Gnome volume control. How would I go about that?

I have a USB headset and I can not direct the output to the headset instead of the speakers. In the Gnome volume control I can select whether I want to use the internal sound card or the USB headset.

ddan

[raveit65]

Greetings,

In on Fedora 17 and I would like to use the Gnome volume control. How would I go about that?

I have a USB headset and I can not direct the output to the headset instead of the speakers. In the Gnome volume control I can select whether I want to use the internal sound card or the USB headset.

ddan

You need gnome-sound-applet for this which is include the control-center package.
After installation you will find two sound-applets in autostart.

Pls can you give a favor and use mate forum for questions like this?
It's not the point that i'm not willing to help you here, but this is a installation quide and every software or debuging question makes this topic confusing.

Thank you

[solo2101]

Mate wallpaper slide show:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mateslideshow/files/

Since MATE 1.5 is using gsetting and it also supports "fading" wallpapers, its posible to have a slideshow as a backgorund...
Mate-wallpaper-slideshow is up to date... enjoy ...(~_^)...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mateslideshow/

[raveit65]

Since MATE 1.5 is using gsetting and it also supports "fading" wallpapers, its posible to have a slideshow as a backgorund...
Mate-wallpaper-slideshow is up to date... enjoy ...(~_^)...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mateslideshow/

Sorry, for my repo i don't want enable crossfading backgrounds again because this will break the background of MDM.
In general i don't thing that i will update f17 to forthcomming MATE-1.6 release.
This will break MDM completely and a lot of other packages which won't work anymore with 1.6.
Gsettings port, libmatepanelapplet API change, removing of python-mate .....
Not to update is not a real problem because f17 reached his EOL in 3 or 4 month, imo.
Also, an update to (1.5.x +) is never tested in a release cycle and i quess users will run in big problems with their working desktop.

If someone wants to change to fedora's version when 1.6 is released, pls post it here and i will write a quide to do this.
But as i say it isn't simple because of 'epoch' tag in versions of packages.

[solo2101]

Hey...

just wanna say that I really like the improvements of Mate default Themes... TraditinalOK, TraditionalGreen, and now works with GTK3... great work...

[raveit65]

The linuxmint guys did some great work with mintmenu the last weeks, it works well now with MATE-1.5.x/1.6.x
So i decided to povide this Advanced MATE Menu in the f18 repo, feel free to test it.

[raveit65]

IMPORTANT !

Fedora updated f18 to MATE-1.6. For testing you will find updated packages in updates-testing repo. see
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates ... e1d4797519
This update will also remove old obsolete packages like mateconf, mate-vfs, libmate, etc. from your system.
In result users of my external addititional repo (f18) have to remove some packages by hand which use mate-conf and mate-vfs, if they are installed on your system.
Otherwise you'll get a yum dependency error during the update.
I have removed those packages from the repo.
Here is a list of packages which have to remove first before you doing the update.
- bastile
- caja-sound-converter
- libmate-media-profiles
- mate-gmail-notifier
- all package with python-mate-................
- python-corba

After that the update to MATE-1.6 should runs smootly.

have fun

[raveit65]

Additional MATE repository for fedora 19

This is an additional reop for forthcoming fedora 19 release, which includes community packages which aren't in fedora's official repo's.
They are full compatible with MATE-1.6 and fedora's MATE packages.

Package list:
-- caja-actions
Caja actions is an extension for Caja, the MATE file manager.
It provides an easy way to configure programs to be launch on files
selected in Caja interface.

-- caja-dropbox
Dropbox extension for caja file manager
Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across
your computers automatically.

-- caja-terminal
Caja Terminal is a terminal embedded in Caja, the MATE's file browser.
It is always open in the current folder, and follows the navigation
(like an automated "cd" command).

-- mate-color-manager
mate-color-manager is a session framework that makes it easy to manage, install
and generate color profiles in the MATE desktop.

-- mate-disk-utility
This package contains the Palimpsest disk management application.
Palimpsest supports partitioning, file system creation, encryption,
RAID, SMART monitoring, etc.

-- mintmenu
An advanced "slab" style menu for Linux. MintMenu supports filtering,
favorites, auto-session, and many other features. MintMenu can either be
added to your mate-panel or launched in its own window.

-- mate-mplayer
MATE MPlayer is a simple GUI for MPlayer. It is intended to be a nice tight
player and provide a simple and clean interface to MPlayer. MATE MPlayer has
a rich API that is exposed via DBus. Using DBus you can control a single or
multiple instances of MATE MPlayer from a single command.
This package provides a full-featured binary.

-- mate-nettool
MATE Nettool is a front-end to various networking command line
tools, like ping, netstat, ifconfig, whois, traceroute, finger.

-- mate-themes-extras
The mate-themes-extras package contains a collection of GTK2/3 desktop
themes for all gtk based desktops.
These themes can change the appearance of application widgets, icons,
window borders, cursors, etc.
This package is optimized for GTK3-3.6.x.

-- faience-icon-theme (needed for mate-themes-extras)
-- gnome-colors-icon-theme (needed for mate-themes-extras)
-- gtk-smooth-engine (needed for mate-themes-extras)
-- python-caja (needed for caja-terminal)

Installation:

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-19/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-19-1.fc19.noarch.rpm

Now you can install the packages via yum. I also add a group install information which installs all packages except mate-mplayer (rpmfusion needed)

yum groupinstall mate-desktop-extra

Feel free to test and use those packages.

[raveit65]

Do you wanna quick help?
Pls join us at freenode irc, chanel #fedora-mate .

[raveit65]

I did removed mintmenu from f18/19 repos, because it is now in fedora's repos for F17/18/19

[raveit65]

mate-themes-extas for f19 support now GTK3-8 and called mate-themes-extras-4.
F19 repo is updated.

[raveit65]

NEWS !

caja-dropbox is now available at rpmfusion-nonfree for f18/19/20.