How do I disable Orca from launching every time I start up my machine? I am using PopOS but would prefer a distro-indifferent answer. **Steps Attempted**: Currently, I have this little launcher added to my Mate Panel: But, I would prefer a more automated solution.

How can I prevent other applications from stealing focus from the active window? I have found solutions for other window managers, but nothing for "Metacity (Marco)" (the window manager of the MATE desktop manager). I don't want to have to specify every time which window must be "always on top", unless it can be done automatically every time I switch to a new window. I have determined the window manager by running wmctrl -m. EDIT: I have tried switching the focus-new-windows flag from smart to strict for both Gnome and Mate(Marco): $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows strict $ gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general focus-new-windows strict But it didn't work.

Using advice from this forum, I got tap to click working in LXDE on my Powerbook G4 running Debian 8.7. I have since been experimenting with the MATE desktop, how do I get tap to click working in MATE? Thank you.

So, I'm using Linux Mint 21.3 with MATE 1.26.0. I've noticed that my system supports a number of nonstandard flag emoji. I'm wondering what part of the system is responsible for this, if this is documented anywhere, and where the files or source for this can be found. Since I'm guessing not everyone is familiar: In addition to its mechanism for national flags, Unicode also has a mechanism for flags of subnational entities. However, this mechanism is mostly unused, with only the flags of England, Scotland, and Wales being officially supported according to the standard (the reason being, as I understand it, that the Unicode Consortium quickly realized that this would get completely out of hand if they allowed it to go any further). I've noticed that my computer actually supports a number of nonstandard subnational flags: American states and DC; Canadian provinces and territories; Mexican states and its federal district; and Northern Ireland (which officially doesn't even have a flag, but one is displayed regardless). Maybe there's more, but other subnational entities I thought to try (such as American territories or Australian states) didn't work. As an example, if your computer is like mine, this will display the flag of Delaware: 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁤󠁥󠁿 (my apologies to the Unicode Consortium for including a nonstandard emoji in general interchange! :P ) You might be wondering, why would I even think to try this, given that certainly I've never seen such nonstandard emoji in the wild, and had to assemble them myself out of the necessary non-printable code points (I mean with a script obviously, not by hand!), after inferring what those would be? The answer is that I got curious about the possibility after seeing [this MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle](https://puzzles.mit.edu/2024/mythstoryhunt.world/puzzles/crossed-fingers-memo-puzzle) the other year, which includes some US state flags as "emoji". Of course, the emoji in that puzzle are actually images, so there's no requirement for them to be actual emoji on anyone's system, but it got me wondering about the possibility, leading me to try out creating such nonstandard emoji on my own system, and, to my surprise, it worked. (I wonder if the writers of that puzzle were aware of this? Just realizing I didn't think to try contacting them... oh well.) (Edit: Actually, maybe I have seen this in the wild on one occasion? I forget, my memory's a bit fuzzy here. It's not important to the question anyway.) Anyway yeah this has been bugging me and I'm wondering if anyone knows what is responsible for this and where I could find more info. Thanks all!

I use Debian and Mate, also I use vim a lot. There are a lot of answers about how to disable that loud beeping sound, it is called "terminal bell" in mate-terminal settings, but actually the sound alert has some good use in vim. My typical workflow is to work with a silent music and I need the alert to be quieter. It sounds like a drip of water and not like system beep. An example of possible solution: if I figure up where the sound file is located, I would like to edit it with an audio editor.

I have an application in which I have created a /usr/share/application/foo.desktop from my dpkg. I wish to have multiple instances of LINK types on my ~/Desktop/ which vary only the Name and Exec. It had looked easy and my attempt at it 'sort of' worked, except the Desktop/foo1.desktop and foo2.desktop do not get the Icon from the /usr/share/application file. What I want seems simple enough. You have a standard desktop file installed by package and then link to it, and each link varies some key parameters. In my case this is a type of recorder, and I would initiate multiple different data stream records. ChatGPT seems to think this cannot be done. I am skeptical as most of it does seem to work. I feel that I am missing some key point so suggestions are welcome. If anyone is interested, I can post examples.

I have an Android TV box running Armbian 5.41 (Ubuntu 16.04.5). Since I changed from kodi-standalone to MATE, I've found a network issue. The box is connected via Ethernet, and MATE shows two interfaces: eth0 and ifupdown(eth0). I want to use eth0, because i can not set an static IP on ifupdown, because it's ready-only. Every time I restart MATE, it automatically connects to ifupdown, resulting in not having any network. I need the static IP, because I've got Pi-Hole running on it as well, with an enabled DHCP server. The static IP of eth0 has been set in network manager. How can i remove this interface or at least setting the normal eth0 as default? /etc/network/interfaces # Wired adapter #1 allow-hotplug eth0 no-auto-down eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp #address 192.168.0.17 #netmask 255.255.255.0 #gateway 192.168.0.1 #dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 # hwaddress ether # if you want to set MAC manually # pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 3838 # setting MTU for DHCP, static just: mtu 3838 # Wireless adapter #1 # Armbian ships with network-manager installed by default. To save you time # and hassles consider using 'sudo nmtui' instead of configuring Wi-Fi settings # manually. The below lines are only meant as an example how configuration could # be done in an anachronistic way: # #allow-hotplug wlan0 #iface wlan0 inet dhcp #address 192.168.0.100 #netmask 255.255.255.0 #gateway 192.168.0.1 #dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 # wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf # Disable power saving on compatible chipsets (prevents SSH/connection dropouts over WiFi) #wireless-mode Managed #wireless-power off # Local loopback auto lo iface lo inet loopback

I utilize Mate's Hardware Sensor Monitor, and it shows the following for my device: What does each label refer to? What temperatures are considered dangerous?

Currently, this is always Liberation Mono, which I hate, and it *doesn't* respect the font gsetting (I use MATE).

I appreciate using Orca *sometimes* but rarely require its usage. However, everytime I reboot and utilize an audio device I must run the following command to turn off Orca:

killall orca

How can I prevent Orca from starting on startup? It is not within the startup applications: How can I repair this? I am utilizing PopOS with Mate Desktop Environment. Thank you all so much!

I am using ubuntu mate, when I want to access Home directory it shows > The path for the directory containing caja settings need read and write permissions: /home/xxxx/.config/caja I tried to change permission and restarted it but I get into same problem

I'm running the MATE edition of Linux Mint on my laptop. I have an external USB disk with a LUKS container on it. The USB disk is connected to the laptop's docking station. Whenever I connect the laptop to the docking station, MATE pops up a window which says, "Enter a password to unlock the volume" along with a text field and options to forget the password immediately, remember until logout, or remember forever. (Not "don't show me this popup again," which is what I would prefer.) Under normal use, I want to have this external USB disk unmounted and idle. I have a cron job which unlocks the disk via a key file, mounts the partition, and runs an automated backup. I don't want this partition to be mounted all the time, nor do I want it to be accessible to my ordinary (non-privileged) user account. Is there any way to tell gvfs (or whatever is doing this) to please stop showing me the "enter password" dialog every time I dock my laptop to the docking station?

I have a xiaomi air laptop with a very small gpu (MX150) and ubuntu mate 18.04 installed. I see that xorg uses up quite a bit of GPU (relative to what I have), around 185Mib on average.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0       916      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                           185MiB |
|    0      2495      G   fcitx-qimpanel                                 7Mi  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Also any way to mitigate the fctix process ? Am I right to think that this xorg uses gpu to render whatever theme I have installed? If so, how can I know which themes or mate features needs a lot? I am keen to minize this as I want to run ML models in there (No I don't have the money to buy gpu or use cloud).

I'm running Linux Mint 18.3 MATE, though I imagine an answer to this question would easily be ported to Ubuntu or Debian. When I'm in an application, I can hit Ctrl-O to bring up the 'Open File' dialog box, and the chosen file will open in the current program. It's the same dialog for every program. I'd like to be able to hit Super-O to pull up this dialog and open a file from anywhere, in its default application. I know I can go to "Menu>Keyboard Shortcuts" to run a bash script with Super-O, so is there a way to use the terminal to pull up this dialog and do xdg-open to the chosen file?

I've been trying to find a way to get MATE Terminal to remember my open tabs, as otherwise all of my state is lost whenever I have to restart the PC. The platform I'm using is Ubuntu 24.04. I installed MATE afterwards, so it's not quite the same as Ubuntu MATE. [This answer](https://askubuntu.com/questions/310705/some-fast-way-to-save-and-restore-tabs-of-terminal/310750#310750) on Ask Ubuntu described command line options for Gnome Terminal which also existed for MATE Terminal, so I decided to try them. But when I tried to launch it from a different terminal emulator:

$ mate-terminal --save-config=/home/mclauam/mate-terminal.cfg
Failed to handle options: Cannot use "--save-config" when starting the factory process

Because of the reference to a "factory process" I tried adding --disable-factory to the command line. Regardless of where I put it, MATE Terminal still failed to launch, although for some reason the error text now begins "Error handling options" instead of "Failed to handle options":

$ mate-terminal --disable-factory --save-config=/home/mclauam/mate-terminal.cfg
Error handling options: Cannot use "--save-config" when starting the factory process

$ mate-terminal --save-config=/home/mclauam/mate-terminal.cfg --disable-factory
Error handling options: Cannot use "--save-config" when starting the factory process

I tried sudo, but it made no difference. I used an option which I knew to be invalid, just to confirm that the above wasn't the usual error message when trying a nonexistent option:

$ mate-terminal --underlay
Failed to parse arguments: Unknown option --underlay

I don't even know what is meant by "the factory process", or why it would render one of the application's own command-line options invalid! The [manpage](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/man1/mate-terminal.1.html) gave no indication that this option might be invalid or interact poorly with a "factory process". How can I launch mate-terminal with --save-config and/or --load-config?

Just installed Linux Mint 17 "Rebecca" Mate. I'm trying to install a new theme. I've downloaded a couple and their instructions request that contents are copied to /usr/share/themes However, I don't have writing permissions to copy to this folder. I carried out a workaround to basically force the download into /themes, but encountered a fairly obstructive error upon booting wherein the ICE authority file could not be updated. This has since been resolved. What's a successful method?

I'll be editing files, actively using a keyboard and sometimes a mouse, especially to switch windows and such. My programs open under edit suddenly have syntax errors which, ultimately come from things pasted into from my clipboard into the editor. This happens in every normal editor, not so much Gvim (mostly due to the unorthodox keyboard sequences). My mouse has a scroll wheel. The scroll wheel can be clicked like a button It has 2 main left and right buttons It also has 2 buttons on the left labeled + and -, both of which I almost never press. I rarely, if ever, press down on the scroll wheel but do scroll active windows with it. What should I look for? This is an OTB Debian installation

$ set |grep DESKTOP
CHROME_DESKTOP=code-url-handler.desktop
DESKTOP_SESSION=mate
MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
ORIGINAL_XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=MATE
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=MATE
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=mate

$ cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS"
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/ "
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/ "
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ "
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy "
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

I'm using the Mate desktop, with multiple workspaces. In Mate, I can right-click on the title bar of any window and move the window to another workspace (a context menu with options "Move to Workspace Left", "Move to Workspace Right", "Move to Another Workspace"). However, this doesn't work for Firefox windows. I can't get to this context menu by right-clicking on the top bar of a Firefox window (i.e., the tab bar). It doesn't matter where I click; even if I click on the empty space or click on or near the buttons for minimizing/maximizing/closing the window, I can't open this context menu. It looks like Firefox windows don't have anything that X considers a title bar: if I understand correctly, the top bar on Firefox windows (the "tab bar") doesn't seem to be considered a title bar by X Windows. Is there some mouse combination I can use to move a Firefox window among workspaces, in Mate? (I know that Firefox lets me optionally enable a separate title bar, but I don't want to enable a separate Firefox title bar just for this purpose, as the title bar is just wasted space with no useful information beyond what is already present on the tab bar.)

I didn't have this happening on Mint 17.1 MATE. On the MATE version of Mint versions 18.1, 19.3, and 20.3, with a dual-monitor setup, and the external monitor being primary, the menu bar covers up the lower part of any maximized window (Firefox, Terminal, etc.) making some screen content inaccessible. This is especially a problem with Terminal, since I can then never see the prompt and what I'm typing there. Terminal in particular for some reason has different results depending on what I set the "Application font" to in the Appearances applet, which affects the size of the menu bar but not the size of the Terminal output. At 16 pt font it only half-covers the last line: But at 14 pt font, it covers the whole last line: 16 pt seems to be a sweet spot---10 pt or less and 20 pt for example both cover most or all of the last Terminal line, just like 14 pt. More than 20 pt starts to cover multiple lines. But in any case, it's a no-go for Terminal windows and also for the bottom of web sites being hidden in browser windows. If I make the laptop built-in primary, I do *not* have this issue on that screen. Only the external. The problem is, I don't want the tiny screen to be where apps launch by default, otherwise I wouldn't have an external in the first place. Unmaximizing and remaximizing a window does not solve the issue. Is there any way to fix this? If not, is there any way to move the menu bar to the laptop screen, but have the external screen still be considered primary for the purpose of new window creation? **Update regarding potential workarounds** 1. If I disable the laptop screen, and just use the external, the problem goes away. (Obviously this isn't a solution though if I want to use both screens.) 2. The "Autohide" and "Show hide buttons" options do not work for my case because while the menu bar is hidden, I cannot see (at a glance) unread status indicators in app title bars, the clock, or system tray icons. 3. Side orientation doesn't work well for me because I need to make the bar huge in order to have the same amount of app title bar width for readability, and also makes my app windows skinnier than works for me (Google Docs in a web browser, for instance, creates a horizontal scrollbar, when there's a comment column and it's zoomed in for readability.) 4. Top orientation seemed promising---Fitz' law for closing apps apparently died sometime in the mid-90's on most OSes for supposed aesthetic reasons anyway---but Chromium, oddly, does not play well with it all, taking up the whole screen and covering up the menu bar even though it's not supposed to be coverable. (Could be a bug in Chromium, MATE, or both...but that's already true of the main issue here in bottom orientation as well.)

I have no audio and I don't know why: I tried:

sudo alsa force-reload

It returns:

sudo: alsa: command not found