Various background issues, caused by changes in GTK+ 3.22, had been fixed upstream. The following packages are needed:
mate-desktop 1.16.2 mate-settings-daemon 1.16.2 caja 1.16.3 Since Caja 1.16.3 requires build and runtime deps on mate-desktop 1.16.2, the following change to debian/control is suggested: https://github.com/mate-desktop/debian-packages/commit/d4d940fdd2072a21de3803c4e0c560fc55e6d10c