MATE-Desktop for fedora - Page 10

raveit65 · #**136** 17th June 2012, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fredex

ok, so having gotten Mate working on F17 (for the curious, I posted about a day ago regarding my own stupid failure to do it right), it seems to be working fine.

however, every time I log in I get an error box that says:

Code:

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject

I click OK and it goes away. AFter that, everything seems to work fine, as far as I can tell.

Clues?... thanx!

Fred

Can you check in 'mate-session-properties' if there is only one entry for 'PolicyKit Authentication Agent'' with the command line '/usr/libexec/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1' ?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by nanonyme

Btw, regarding the configuration, something like

Code:

NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
%configure ...

prevents configure from being run twice.

This is true, and wanted

fredex · #**137** 17th June 2012, 06:35 PM

where do I find 'mate-session-properties' ??

raveit65 · #**138** 17th June 2012, 06:42 PM

It's System/Preferences/startprogramms or type it in a terminal.

szilagyic · #**139** 20th June 2012, 07:33 PM

Is it possible to install MATE on Fedora without Gnome installed? For example, I installed Fedora 17 without any desktop environments. Then I enabled the MATE repository and installed MATE with "yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop" which succeeded. There is no graphical logon even though it is enabled for systemd. And, when I run "startx", X11 starts but I get a popup error saying "Failed to load session Gnome" and there's a Logout button which kills X. The X errors include:

Unable to find required component 'gnome-shell'
Unable to find required component 'gnome-settings-daemon'
... and others all related to Gnome.

I've been running in circles to try and figure this out. Basically, I'm just trying to install a Fedora17 system with MATE as the default desktop environment without having Gnome 3 at all on the system. Is this possible? Thanks in advance..........

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Chris

raveit65 · #**140** 20th June 2012, 07:58 PM

Yes,
for a working startx command you have to edit/create ~/.xinitrc with

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exec ck-launch-session mate-session

check if consolekit daemon is enable.
Another way is to install 'mdm' (mate-display-manager)
and

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systemctl enable graphical.target

for changing start option from (old) runlevel 3 to runlevel 5

szilagyic · #**141** 21st June 2012, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Another way is to install 'mdm' (mate-display-manager)
and

Code:

systemctl enable graphical.target

for changing start option from (old) runlevel 3 to runlevel 5

That worked perfectly, thank you. Now the regular graphical login screen comes up.

I noticed that there are some native Gnome applications installed (like Totem, Rhythmbox, etc) , and they use a very ugly and boxy theme. I've tried using gnome-tweak-tool to change the Gnome theme, but the changes don't seem to take effect. Is there a way that this theme can be changed? The MATE theme is set and is OK.

Thank you very much!

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Chris

jonathonp · #**142** 21st June 2012, 02:24 AM

XFCE includes Gnome packages:

[jonathon@HPProbook ~]$

Code:

 rpm -q gdm
gdm-3.4.1-3.fc17.x86_64

[jonathon@HPProbook ~]$

Code:

 rpm -q gnome-session
gnome-session-3.4.2-1.fc17.x86_64

szilagyic · #**143** 21st June 2012, 03:45 AM

Quote:

I noticed that there are some native Gnome applications installed (like Totem, Rhythmbox, etc) , and they use a very ugly and boxy theme. I've tried using gnome-tweak-tool to change the Gnome theme, but the changes don't seem to take effect. Is there a way that this theme can be changed? The MATE theme is set and is OK.

Ah ha... found the issue with the ugly themes issue, this is a posted fix:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/issues/7

raveit65 · #**144** 21st June 2012, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by szilagyic

Ah ha... found the issue with the ugly themes issue, this is a posted fix:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/issues/7

It's already posted here in this topic.

Use 'mate-themes-extras' wich includes GK2/3 themes.

den23513 · #**145** 21st June 2012, 11:51 AM

Hello,
I want to introduce my DeniX-OS distro. This is Fedora 17 based Linux system with build-in MATE desktop and included all Fedora updates up to 20.06.2012
It included multimedia codecs, adobe flush plugin, skype (in 32bit version only), and all other software for everyday usage.
Default configuration includes adjustments for gtk2/3 themes , grub2 graphical theme and more.

Download links from my website:
http://os.vc/index.php?action=content_get_denix_os

Or mirror links:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/86384341/denix-17-i386.iso
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/86819301/denix-17-x86_64.iso

Riff Gaffer · #**146** 22nd June 2012, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raveit65

It's already posted here in this topic.

Use 'mate-themes-extras' wich includes GK2/3 themes.

Thankyou so much for this! This is excellent and makes me happy.

I installed this on a bare F17 LDXE - this may seem like a noob question (I admit it) but howdo I make MATE the default desktop?

raveit65 · #**147** 22nd June 2012, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riff Gaffer

I installed this on a bare F17 LDXE - this may seem like a noob question (I admit it) but howdo I make MATE the default desktop?

I think you're using lxdm as display manager?
see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDM for changing default session

- per user ~/.dmrc

Code:

[Desktop]
Session=mate

or

Code:

[Desktop]
Session=mate-session

- system wide
Edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

Code:

session=/usr/bin/startx

For this you need a ~/.xinitrc , (see in some previous post)

Hope this work, i'm not expert with lxdm

lovyagin · #**148** 22nd June 2012, 07:14 PM

I've made Live CDs of Fedora Remix with Mate. Can be find here.

These are fully bootable and can be installed to hard disk as usual Fedora Live CD. MDM is used as a login manager, so I've patched prefdm and SELinux labels to accept it. Also default user autostart contains xhost +SI:localuser:root to accept executign root GUI applications at user's X server.

Since one can't call them Fedora and use Fedora logos, so I used generic-logos and generic-release. That's the reason of yum check missing dependency mate-desktop-release requires fedora-release. (I think it would be better not to make this requirnment for mate-desktop rpm.) Unfortunately I don't have good taste and can't made proper logos, hope someone can help.

Riff Gaffer · #**149** 23rd June 2012, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raveit65

I think you're using lxdm as display manager?
see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDM for changing default session

- per user ~/.dmrc

Code:

[Desktop]
Session=mate

or

Code:

[Desktop]
Session=mate-session

- system wide
Edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

Code:

session=/usr/bin/startx

For this you need a ~/.xinitrc , (see in some previous post)

Hope this work, i'm not expert with lxdm

Thanks but I needed to run the 32bit version to get Second Life going - I've only got 4 gigs of ram so it made more sense to reinstall the standard version and now I've got MATE running nicely on that. It seems it remembers my choice for desktop anyhow.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lovyagin

I've made Live CDs of Fedora Remix with Mate. Can be find here.

These are fully bootable and can be installed to hard disk as usual Fedora Live CD. MDM is used as a login manager, so I've patched prefdm and SELinux labels to accept it. Also default user autostart contains xhost +SI:localuser:root to accept executign root GUI applications at user's X server.

Since one can't call them Fedora and use Fedora logos, so I used generic-logos and generic-release. That's the reason of yum check missing dependency mate-desktop-release requires fedora-release. (I think it would be better not to make this requirnment for mate-desktop rpm.) Unfortunately I don't have good taste and can't made proper logos, hope someone can help.

I looked at this, but they seemed to be in Russian so I couldn't read it. I'm afraid I found that a touch offputting. I liked the idea though. You could call your spin "My mate's homburg" or something though

lovyagin · #**150** 24th June 2012, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riff Gaffer

I looked at this, but they seemed to be in Russian so I couldn't read it. I'm afraid I found that a touch offputting. I liked the idea though. You could call your spin "My mate's homburg" or something though

That's weird, CDs has English as basic language. I've checked them on Virtualbox. Just "narod" download page is in Russian, but "1fichier" is in English although it is much slower (they are seems to be the two fastest free file sharing to accept 5Gb files, if I've not missed an other). Well... anyway I've made "passworded" version to choice liveuser language before loggin in...