MATE-Desktop for fedora - Page 11

raveit65 · #**151** 27th June 2012, 04:02 PM

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.

Nice release, exept the 'rhgb' issue after installation.
I don't think that we really need 'rhgb', because i want to see what happens at boot time, but a lot of user use it..... so it's better you fix the issue.
I tested the x86_64 release in virtualbox.

---------- Post added at 03:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:53 PM ----------

New packages in mate-desktop-fedora-new-application-testing repo.

-- mate-mplayer (fork of gnome-mplayer)
features:
- caja extension, which shows properties of audio and video files in the properties dialogue
- ipod support
- dvb support
- 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. Useful for lirc
- vdpau and vaapi support
- etc.

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

lovyagin · #**152** 1st July 2012, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raveit65

Nice release, exept the 'rhgb' issue after installation.
I don't think that we really need 'rhgb', because i want to see what happens at boot time, but a lot of user use it..... so it's better you fix the issue.
I tested the x86_64 release in virtualbox.

Thanks! Indeed I don't need one, but... well, I don't know how to fix it, it might be video drivers conflict. Not sure if it will appear on non-virtual machine. For example, I can't user rhgb along with NVidea driver but it switches to non-graphical dark-blue-white line...

I wish to draw a normal logo and name release properly first of all... (oh, their stupid hot dog, really).

raveit65 · #**153** 1st July 2012, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lovyagin

Thanks! Indeed I don't need one, but... well, I don't know how to fix it, it might be video drivers conflict. Not sure if it will appear on non-virtual machine. For example, I can't user rhgb along with NVidea driver but it switches to non-graphical dark-blue-white line...

I wish to draw a normal logo and name release properly first of all... (oh, their stupid hot dog, really).

Yes, this hot dog has to be tread in a ton.....
I think i've found the issue.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop to

Code:

DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/mdm

In virtualbox your relase starts well now with 'rhgb' on.

lovyagin · #**154** 1st July 2012, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raveit65

I think i've found the issue.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop to

Code:

DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/mdm

In virtualbox your relase starts well now with 'rhgb' on.

Oh, it means I was to add splash_quit_command="plymouth quit":

Code:

	elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = MATE ]; then
		preferred=/usr/sbin/mdm
		splash_quit_command="plymouth quit"

to /etc/X11/prefdm to accept DISPLAYMANAGER=MATE properly. Looks like works fine after that. Strange, new GDM doesn't need it maybe old one needed too. Well, to set DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/mdm and don't touch prefdm was much more simply, indeed.

raveit65 · #**155** 1st July 2012, 04:18 PM

give me a hint if you've updated your release,
then i wiil publish it at fedoraforum.de
Mate-forum should be another good address where you can publish your release.

lovyagin · #**156** 3rd July 2012, 02:33 PM

ok, i'm finishing making and testing release and logo's packages now, so it'll take few days to compile and upload all the CDs... by the way, wouldn't it be better if you change dependency of mate-desktop-release package from fedora-release to system-release? fedora-release is trademarked, but fedora-release provides system-release as well, so generic-release do, and my fedora-remix-mate-release will do, but now it makes deps problem of mate-desktop-release requires fedora-release in my media...

raveit65 · #**157** 3rd July 2012, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lovyagin

ok, i'm finishing making and testing release and logo's packages now, so it'll take few days to compile and upload all the CDs... by the way, wouldn't it be better if you change dependency of mate-desktop-release package from fedora-release to system-release? fedora-release is trademarked, but fedora-release provides system-release as well, so generic-release do, and my fedora-remix-mate-release will do, but now it makes deps problem of mate-desktop-release requires fedora-release in my media...

You mean generic-release? There is no package system-release.

Code:

generic-release conflicts with fedora-release-16-1.noarch

Your proposal will make it impossible to install mate-desktop-release on a system where fedora-release is installed.
Most of the users install fedora in a standard way first and then mate-desktop.

lovyagin · #**158** 3rd July 2012, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raveit65

You mean generic-release? There is no package system-release.

Not quite, yup, system-release is not a package, but a provided thing, fedora-release.spec contains:

Code:

Summary:	Fedora release files
Name:		fedora-release
...
Provides:	redhat-release
Provides:	system-release = %{version}-%{release}
...

so generic-release do. I can't use fedora-release in my CDs because it is trademarked, but I can use generic-release (and fork it). So, probably they called it system-release as generalization to made remixes possible correctly:

Code:

$ yum whatprovides system-release
...
fedora-release-17-1.noarch : Fedora release files
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Provides    : system-release = 17-1

generic-release-17-1.noarch : Generic release files
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Provides    : system-release = 17-1

fedora-release-17-1.noarch : Fedora release files
Repo        : @anaconda-0
Matched from:
Provides    : system-release = 17-1

For example, RPMFusion's rpmfusion-free-release.spec contains:

Code:

Name:           rpmfusion-%{repo}-release
Version:        17.0.3
Release:        1
Summary:        RPM Fusion (%{repo}) Repository Configuration
...
Requires:       system-release >= 17
...

probably it's more correct to set dependency on system-release (I suppose same with fedora-logos and fedora-release-notes, they provides system-logos and system-release-notes).

raveit65 · #**159** 4th July 2012, 12:15 PM

Ok, thx for explanation.
It's no problem for me to switch to system-release.
New mate-desktop-release package are uploaded to repo.

lovyagin · #**160** 6th July 2012, 06:33 PM

Thank you, I've updated all CDs, now seems to me everything works properly including graphical boot and new logo.

johncena · #**161** 11th July 2012, 11:55 AM

I can't set up Mate-desktop on Fedora 17. When I'm trying to set up it with a command
"yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop"
there seems to be something incorrect with repository:
"http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/x86_64/caja-1.2.2-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Mistake 404 -

raveit65 · #**162** 11th July 2012, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johncena

I can't set up Mate-desktop on Fedora 17. When I'm trying to set up it with a command
"yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop"
there seems to be something incorrect with repository:
"http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/x86_64/caja-1.2.2-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Mistake 404 -

I recreate the repo data. Do a yum clean all and try again.
A feedback would be nice.

solo2101 · #**163** 16th July 2012, 07:14 AM

for those interested. This is a GnoMenu fork... or a port to mate better said.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilomenu/

you will need the phyton python-mate* and numpy packages. and of course all the GnoMenu deps as well.

Code:

yum install phyton python-mate* numpy

solo2101 · #**164** 17th July 2012, 09:09 PM

In an atempt to learn how to use github.com Tilo-Menu is there now there....

https://github.com/solo2101/Tilo-Menu

Geezus!!! does it really need to be that hard to upload to github????

raveit65 · #**165** 23rd July 2012, 02:05 PM

For the forthcoming Mate 1.4.x release i have rearranged the repo. dropping out old packages......
If you've problems now with yum, do a 'yum clean all'

sorry for this