On Monday, November 12, 2012 12:43:01, Mark Wallace wrote: > Synaptic Package Manager does not boot up in Mate. Nothing happens > after I key in password.
That's strange. A friend that uses MATE has several issues with it, but this is the first I've heard of this particular weirdness. My understanding is that MATE uses old Gnome2 libraries, renamed in order to not conflict with Gnome3 libs. I'm guessing that there's some kind of Gnome2 <-> Gnome3 library weirdness going on as to why this is happening. I've also found that MATE doesn't seem to include the normal menu items that other Window Mangers and Desktop Environments do. > KDE was in my system first. > > Synaptic works perfectly in KDE > > Muon works perfectly in both KDE and Mate. > > I want to take KDE completely out of my system as it is too resource > hungry for an old netbook. I think Mate will work better. I also miss > Gnome 2.33 I'm including this in case you re-try KDE at some point. To lighten KDE4's resource hungryness: go into System Settings under "Workspace Appearance and Behavior" -> "Desktop Search" and uncheck every item in the "Basic Settings" tab and hit Apply -- specifically turn off both "Strigi file indexing" and "Nepomuk Semantic Desktop". Both of those features are a performance nightmare, they're active by default, and the documentation on them in the help doesn't mention the performance problems associated with them. With these turned off, KDE4 runs just fine on an old Pentium 4 system. With them turned on the system increasingly becomes intolerably slow. > I am guessing that I have a keyring issue in Mate. I want Mate to be my > only desktop. If you mean a "keyring package", the keyring packages are GPG keyrings for checking package integrity (i.e. signatures) before installing the package. Once the package is installed the keyring isn't used AFAIK. > What do I need to install? I don't think it's a missing dependency. The next suggestion I have is to start synaptic at the command line and see if you get any unexpected error output. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Dec 5 - SysAdmin Panel Jan 9 - High Performance Computing Feb 6 - February Meeting
