MATÉ desktop environment

Azarien · #1 February 11th, 2012, 11:13

It seems that no one in BSD world noticed that GNOME 2 have been forked and is now called MATÉ.
http://mate-desktop.org
I believe it should be an easy task to port it to FreeBSD.

caesius · #2 February 11th, 2012, 11:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Azarien

It seems that no one in BSD world noticed that GNOME 2 have been forked and is now called MATÉ.

What makes you think no-one noticed it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Azarien

I believe it should be an easy task to port it to FreeBSD.

Excellent. Here's the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook

Azarien · #3 February 14th, 2012, 16:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by caesius

What makes you think no-one noticed it?

Well, the huge number of replies in this thread kind of proves that...

LateNiteTV · #4 February 14th, 2012, 20:19

I'm going to start working on porting this.

LateNiteTV · #5 February 15th, 2012, 18:27

I worked on this quite a bit last night. I managed to get most of the components to build after some hair pulling and wall punching. There's still a few build errors I have to deal with, but it's going a lot smoother than I thought it would. I'll be spending more time on this when I get home from work today.

Also, I am in no way, shape, or form a programmer. I hack C and Python on the weekends and that's about it. What is trivial to someone else may be a huge headache for me. If I run into anything I absolutely can't figure out I'll be hitting up the ML.

LateNiteTV · #6 February 17th, 2012, 16:20

I gave up trying to port the Makefiles over to BSD's make and started over using GNU make and things are going much smoother now.

TroN-0074 · #7 March 31st, 2012, 01:26

Big fan of Gnome here currently using KDE, I was just wondering how did you do with the mate port for FreeBSD?

Good luck to you.

zeissoctopus · #8 June 30th, 2012, 11:45

News about the MATE desktop from the freebsd-gnome mailing list: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ne/027500.html

**mezz@** · #9 July 27th, 2012, 20:56

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ly/027575.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ly/027576.html

Have fun with it!

okeeblow · #10 August 10th, 2012, 01:58

I've been testing MATE for a few days and can't really find anything broken to complain about

There was an unescaped newline in x11/mate's RUN_DEPENDS at the time, but after fixing that the install went smoothly. I've started mate-session both via GDM using the installed xsession and via SLiM using ck-launch-session mate-session in my ~/.xinitrc.

I'm running MATE with compiz-fusion started via compiz-manager as a startup item. I got my run box back in Compiz with this workaround. I currently have MATE installed alongside gnome2 but will remove that shortly since this is perfectly stable.

The volume control applet works perfectly with snd_hda, and I was able to mount local and SSH volumes.

Cheers, great work!

http://i.imgur.com/9b8qN.png

**mezz@** · #11 August 10th, 2012, 13:57

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Originally Posted by okeeblow

There was an unescaped newline in x11/mate's RUN_DEPENDS at the time, but after fixing that the install went smoothly.

Ah, looks like I have committed x11/mate before I saved it in the VIM. I will fix it when I get chance today. Thanks for report!

Quote:

Originally Posted by okeeblow

I've started mate-session both via GDM using the installed xsession and via SLiM using ck-launch-session mate-session in my ~/.xinitrc.

Glad that GDM works ok with MATE.

Quote:

Originally Posted by okeeblow

The volume control applet works perfectly with snd_hda

The sounds works. Awesome! I plan to dig in the old patches of volume/sound stuff in our GNOME 2 before it switched to pulseaudio. Just to see if there is anything useful. I have disabled pulseaudio in MATE without provide any of option. I don't know if it's a good idea or not.

I have asked my team about gstreamer VS pulseaudio and I got marcus's responed. He said, "I think gstreamer is better as it can bridge to a number of things. However, I think pulseaudio is closer to the hardware." It's one of reason I have chosen to disable pulseaudio and use gstreamer instead. If anyone like pulseaudio better for some functions (don't know if there is any difference functions?), I can add pulseaudio as an option but gstreamer still will be default.

vermaden · #12 August 10th, 2012, 13:59

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Originally Posted by mezz@

I have disabled pulseaudio in MATE without provide any of option. I don't know if it's a good idea or not.

Definitely good. We do not want Lennart shit in the BSD world

okeeblow · #13 August 10th, 2012, 22:46

I prefer to run without Pulse as well, but I don't doubt some people find a use for it

ericturgeon · #14 August 12th, 2012, 03:20

A fresh install of Mate in FreeBSD

cra1g321 · #15 August 12th, 2012, 05:43

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Originally Posted by ericturgeon

A fresh install of Mate in FreeBSD

Any plans to make a MATE version of GhostBSD ?

ericturgeon · #16 August 12th, 2012, 12:46

Yes that is why I try to help Mezz. But If you have a Fresh install of FreeBSD its simple to compile mate.

Code:

fetch http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge

If its the first time you run portsnap:

Code:

portsnap fetch extract

If not run:

Code:

portsnap fetch update

Merge Marcus ports-experimental

Code:

sh marcusmerge -u -m ports-experimental -s /usr/src

To compile Mate:

Code:

cd /usr/ports/x11/mate-base
make install clean

You should have a minimal Mate install. The rest of the application is up to you. You can can find a list in /usr/ports/MC_UNMM-ports-experimental.txt of more Mate application.

okeeblow · #17 August 12th, 2012, 17:30

I ran into the known problem of unstyled QT4 apps when built with

Code:

QT4_OPTIONS+= QGTKSTYLE

Fixed by installing misc/qt4-qtconfig and selecting "GTK+" GUI style.

**mezz@** · #18 August 13th, 2012, 14:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericturgeon

To compile Mate:

Code:

cd /usr/ports/x11/mate-base
make instal clean

You should have a minimal Mate install. The rest of the application is up to you. You can can find a list in /usr/ports/MC_UNMM-ports-experimental.txt of more Mate application.

Or just install the x11/mate if anyone want a complete MATE applications with the MATE desktop.

okeeblow · #19 August 13th, 2012, 23:52

The sleep inhibit panel applet doesn't seem to inhibit screensaver under MATE. I'm using XScreensaver instead of mate-screensaver. Since MATE didn't provide a compile-time option for XScreensaver (like gnome2) I just disabled mate-screensaver as a startup item and replaced it with

Code:

xscreensaver -no-splash

Edit:

I would really love a mate-file-manager-open-terminal ala deskutils/nautilus-open-terminal

malco_2001 · #20 August 16th, 2012, 14:35

When building /usr/ports/x11/mate /usr/ports/textproc/flex has to be installed first or /usr/ports/math/mate-calc will not build

**mezz@** · #21 August 17th, 2012, 12:38

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Originally Posted by malco_2001

When building /usr/ports/x11/mate /usr/ports/textproc/flex has to be installed first or /usr/ports/math/mate-calc will not build

Ah right, I forgot to add that one when I added a patch in the post-patch to use textproc/flex instead because it needs newer flex instead of one in the base system. I have fixed it, thanks for report.

**mezz@** · #22 August 17th, 2012, 12:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by okeeblow

The sleep inhibit panel applet doesn't seem to inhibit screensaver under MATE. I'm using XScreensaver instead of mate-screensaver. Since MATE didn't provide a compile-time option for XScreensaver (like gnome2) I just disabled mate-screensaver as a startup item and replaced it with

Code:

xscreensaver -no-splash

I don't know much about the screensaver. I will check to see why it doesn't work. I never have use inhibit applet before. The screensaver is pointless to me these day when monitor/lcd sleep mode is much better.

Quote:

Originally Posted by okeeblow

Edit:

I would really love a mate-file-manager-open-terminal ala deskutils/nautilus-open-terminal

That name is insane long with many dashes. They should have make it shorter. O_o

vermaden · #23 August 17th, 2012, 13:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by okeeblow

I would really love a mate-file-manager-open-terminal ala deskutils/nautilus-open-terminal

Just create that script and You will be able to open terminal (xterm in this case) in the current directory.

Code:

% cat << EOF > ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/terminal.sh 
#! /bin/sh

cd "$( echo ${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI} | sed -E s/'[a-z]+:\/\/'//g -e s/%20/\ /g )" && xterm

% chmod +x ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/terminal.sh

Maybe the path is different for MATE file manager, I do not know where it keeps its scripts and configs, You need to change that.

It looks like that:

okeeblow · #24 August 17th, 2012, 15:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by mezz@

The screensaver is pointless to me these day when monitor/lcd sleep mode is much better.

Yeah, kind of. I just use it for screen locking, but I like to toggle the inhibit applet so my screen doesn't lock when I'm watching something or playing a game on my other machine via Synergy.

Edit:

I ended up granting my own request. Here's mate-file-manager-open-terminal:

**mezz@** · #25 August 19th, 2012, 16:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by mezz@

I don't know much about the screensaver. I will check to see why it doesn't work. I never have use inhibit applet before. The screensaver is pointless to me these day when monitor/lcd sleep mode is much better.

I have been tested with the inhibit applet a lot yesterday. It seems work perfect here. I have set the screensaver to a minute with lock option. I have tested it for five minutes to have the screensaver came out at five times. Then click on the inhibit applet to disable the screensaver and the screensaver never comes out hours. When I enable it by click on the inhibit applet and the screensaver came out perfect in a minute. I did it repeat for three times.

The strange is that... When I removed the inhibit applet and disable screensaver to go back to my default settings. Now the LCD sleep mode doesn't come out anymore. Mumbles... Going to be fun to figure on it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by okeeblow

I ended up granting my own request. Here's mate-file-manager-open-terminal

Thanks, I have committed it with a bit tweak. Thanks!

http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bi...open-terminal/

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