Installing MATE

[Jon Ingason]

2012-09-17 02:29, Bill Davidsen skrev:
> I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually
> see how it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon
> and XFCE installed. After doing the yum install, I don't see MATE in the
> list of managers available at login. Before I spend a lot of time in
> documentation, it this normal? Does it not drop in like KDE, etc?
>

You will find the soulution in this URL:

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/session

Or just do

echo "exec ck-launch-session mate-session" > ~/.xinitrc

and then logout and login. Then you get the possiblity to chose either 
Gmome or Mate.

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Regards
Jon Ingason