On 09/11/2018 15:42, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
On 09/11/2018 14:51, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:On 09/11/2018 14:00, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:On 09/11/2018 12:06, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:Hi, I noticed that the mouse right click menu is not available on MATE. The necessary switch for this should be org.mate.desktop.background 'show-desktop-icons' = true. However, despite it is show in dconf under the org/mate/desktop/ schema, the name of this switch is shown and configurable only as org.mate.background. Possible ommission of the /desktop/ folder ? That would explain why the right mouse still doesn't work even when switching this (and the corresponding gnome/ entry) off and on again.Played around with the org.mate. schemata in /usr/share/glib-2.0, but no progress. The dichotomy in the nameing scheme stems from a special 'path=' argument for the background schema, but the mate names in general apparently don't use the desktop folder (and editing this into the file, renaming and compiling it causes indeed loss of all those preferences). So no clue yet why the show-desktop-icons switch doesn't work, and right click mouse shows no context menu (on background).Logging in as a non-root user makes the right mouse context menu available. So I thought this is something in old config files for root, deleted .config, .cache, .gconf*, .gnome*, .local, .elementary, .themes (from offline), logged in again, set org.mate.background show-desktop-icons to true, re-logged in again, but still no icons and no context menu. So all I can conclude now is that all these mate switches do specifically not work with the root account.PROBLEM SOLVED: This is again something weird! None of the methods setting that nasty switch including dconf-editor, gconf-editor, dconf set org.mate... worked, although all methods pretend that that switch had been indeed set correctly. Instead, only one specific command sets the right switch at the correct place: dconf write /org/mate/desktop/background/show-desktop-icons true Specifically note that again, the 'desktop/' part is in that path. So I suspect that this change in name and the special path entry in the schema confuse mate in such a way that the config editors do not find the switch at the correct place, only 'dconf write' hits the right bits.
...AND, as an additional weirdness: This command only sets the right switch if Caja is open ! Otherwise it does nothing. At this point I must say that Mate is a piece of ... [whatever you like to think here] and it should be considered to go back to Gnome 3 (the newest Ubuntu edition of it is pretty usable again, they've learned from the early failures with usability). Didn't expect that it is THAT broken. -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026
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