MATE desktop

[Ben Greear]

On 08/26/2013 01:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Les Howell <hlhowell at pacbell.net <mailto:hlhowell at pacbell.net>> wrote:
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>     What is the key to getting MATE installed and run on a user?
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> sudo yum groupinstall "MATE  Desktop"
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>     Will the GNOME3 version of Evolution, Firefox, etc all run?
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> Should do, but it's easier just to try it. If you don't like it, you can switch desktops from the login screen.

One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a system w/out
accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if you log into
MATE.

I ended up removing gnome-shell (and gdm, etc) and then just start mate via startx
from the equiv of runlevel 3.

Thanks,
Ben

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