MATE MATE desktop cannot add app launchers

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KenGordon

I am operating two different computers here, both running FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE and the MATE desktop.

One of the two computers' MATE desktop works exactly as one would expect.

The other one has a problem in that if I attempt to add an app launcher to the desktop, nothing happens, and the desktop remains without any icons at all on it.

The apps work just fine, if I access them from the main menu and they work as one would expect.

In hopes of possibly finding and correcting any missing bits which might have been missed during the install, I ran pkg upgrade which finished with no errors, and everything still works exactly as it should...except that I still cannot make an app-launcher available on the desktop of that one computer.

Is there any other information I might provide in order to get some ideas from anyone here?

Might anyone have an idea about this?

Searching on the web has, so far, resulted in no help.

Ken Gordon
 
Run pkg prime-list > pkgs on both computers and compare the files.

You may installed something inadvertantly which is interfering with one system.

Just a thought. I often observe differences between different computers which are supposedly running the same software and it is difficult to track down the difference.
 
Well, since I began this thread, the computer which HAD been working to enable app-launchers to be installable on the desktop (MATE) and I had a bunch of them there , suddenly, this morning, no longer does, and all previous launchers are now gone....poof...forever it seems. SOMEthing was "automagically" "upgraded" while I wasn't paying attention.

Also, my "downstairs" computer will no longer recognize its printer, which WAS working correctly the day before.

Poop! :rude:

The "upstairs" computer still sees and operates its printer (which is the same one that the "downstairs" box uses (or "used"): a wire-lessly connected HP OfficeJet Pro 9135e)

You know, I really like FreeBSD, and have, since version 4-something. It is really "solid" and doesn't "fool around", and is fast, unlike terribly slow "Windoze" bloat-ware, but since I am NOT and never was a computer-whiz-kid, (I am far more of a hardware guru) it can be difficult for my 83 year old brain to keep up with. Still, it has been worth the effort.

Later,

Ken Gordon W7EKB
 
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