MATE on Raspberry Pi

Gnome 2 was the most popular Linux desktop, but it’s no longer available. MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 and provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors.

{{attachment:mate_screenshot.png|alt Mate Screenshot|align="middle"|width=480}}

About MATE

The best source of information about MATE is the MATE website. At the website is an explanation as to why MATE exists, information on installing MATE and forums where you can get help with using MATE.

Installing MATE

For Raspbian, add the following repository to your "/etc/apt/sources.list":

deb http://archive.raspbian.org/mate wheezy main

Perform the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-core
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
sudo apt-get install mate-file-manager

Starting MATE

Running MATE manually with startx

In order to start MATE manually, you must add

exec mate-session

to your ~/.xinitrc file and then run

startx