Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-18 Thread ken mays via openindiana-discuss
Gary, The menu option would suffice for a something minimalistic like IceWM 1.3.8 versus MATE. ~K On Thursday, August 18, 2016 6:54 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:12:45PM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > > So, let me introduce Mate 1.14. To facilitate installing,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-18 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:12:45PM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > > So, let me introduce Mate 1.14. To facilitate installing, I've > created pkg:/mate_install, which should be shortly available. > Unfortunately, when you have both Gnome 2 and Mate installed, both > of them try to use the same a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-17 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
it looks faster and better utilizes graphic card/monitor I have installed OI Mate experimental under Virtual Box, and my impressions were just the opposite. It feels sluggish compared to Gnome. Not tested on bare metal though. ___ openindiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-17 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
On 08/17/16 08:13 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: As for removing gnome2 packages, I still haven't experimented with this (but will shortly), after that will write some instructions. The following worked for me: $ sudo pkg update --be-name oi-2016-08-17 $ sudo beadm mount oi-2016-08-17 /mnt $ su

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-17 Thread Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator
On 08/16/16 05:12 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello, people. I wanted to announce availability of Mate some time ago, but there were some issues, especially when I tried to build Mate Live CD. Good news is that now most irritating issues (or at least those which I found) are fixed. So, let me

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-16 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Tim Mooney писал 16.08.2016 21:22: In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test...: So, let me introduce Mate 1.14. To facilitate installing, I've created pkg:/mate_install, which should be shortly available. Unfortunately, when you have both Gnome 2 and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-16 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test...: So, let me introduce Mate 1.14. To facilitate installing, I've created pkg:/mate_install, which should be shortly available. Unfortunately, when you have both Gnome 2 and Mate installed, both of them try to use the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-16 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello, people. I wanted to announce availability of Mate some time ago, but there were some issues, especially when I tried to build Mate Live CD. Good news is that now most irritating issues (or at least those which I found) are fixed. So, let me introduce Mate 1.14. To facilitate installing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE feedback

2016-08-11 Thread Private openbabel
I was wondering if you could use cairo dock or similar with mate ? Robert Jones On 11/08/2016 17:48, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 08/11/16 07:44 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 11.08.16 um 17:37 schrieb Aurélien Larcher: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: [ stuff dele

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE feedback

2016-08-11 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
On 08/11/16 07:44 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 11.08.16 um 17:37 schrieb Aurélien Larcher: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: [ stuff deleted ] And I wanted to finish with lightdm before announcing MATE :) Sorry about that ;) at least I did some preview testing ;)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE feedback

2016-08-11 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 11.08.16 um 17:37 schrieb Aurélien Larcher: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: [ stuff deleted ] And I wanted to finish with lightdm before announcing MATE :) Sorry about that ;) at least I did some preview testing ;) BTW, MATE package set looks like desktop/arc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE feedback

2016-08-11 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > On 08/ 9/16 11:57 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I just wanted to congratulate Till, Ken and Alexander for their >> amazing work on MATE. >> On my workstation I replaced Gnome with MATE and use it together with >> Compiz. >> The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE feedback

2016-08-09 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
On 08/ 9/16 11:57 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hi, I just wanted to congratulate Till, Ken and Alexander for their amazing work on MATE. On my workstation I replaced Gnome with MATE and use it together with Compiz. The experience is very smooth and MATE brings some usability improvements over Gnom

[OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE feedback

2016-08-09 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Hi, I just wanted to congratulate Till, Ken and Alexander for their amazing work on MATE. On my workstation I replaced Gnome with MATE and use it together with Compiz. The experience is very smooth and MATE brings some usability improvements over Gnome tools (e.g. ability to set the primary monitor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-11 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/11/2016 02:34 AM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote: Hi Toasterson, I did unpacked MATE to separate directory, and navigated there, then: $ ls -la total 22K drwxr-xr-x 11 rootroot 11 May 11 08:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 predrag_zecevic admin 3 May 11 08:23 .. dr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-10 Thread Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator
On 05/10/16 05:02 PM, Till Wegmüller wrote: On 10.05.2016 15:12, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote: Hi, I have installed it (went to /usr/local completely). After log-out form running gmd, tried to log-in back, but no "GNOME MATE" was offered, just GNOME and xterm... I could

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-10 Thread Till Wegmüller
On 10.05.2016 15:12, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote: Hi, I have installed it (went to /usr/local completely). After log-out form running gmd, tried to log-in back, but no "GNOME MATE" was offered, just GNOME and xterm... I could verify it with "$ ps -ef| grep usr/local" c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-10 Thread Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator
On 05/10/16 01:08 PM, Till Wegmüller wrote: On 10.05.2016 11:24, Nikola M wrote: I suppose I can add MATE to gdm and select it in menu to boot to MATE instead of GNOME? (so that I have GNOME untouched and can still try MATE) I am thinking that regular way of selecting desktop environment on log

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-10 Thread Till Wegmüller
On 10.05.2016 11:24, Nikola M wrote: I suppose I can add MATE to gdm and select it in menu to boot to MATE instead of GNOME? (so that I have GNOME untouched and can still try MATE) I am thinking that regular way of selecting desktop environment on login would be from gdm menu Is there alternati

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-10 Thread Nikola M
On 05/ 8/16 05:28 AM, ken mays via openindiana-discuss wrote: Hello, The MATE 1.14 Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. MATE Desktop Environmen

[OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-07 Thread ken mays via openindiana-discuss
Hello, The MATE 1.14 Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. MATE Desktop Environment http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2016-04-08-mate-1-14-released/ A

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