The following is a list of known issues with MATE on Slackware: Tue Feb 22 04:55:09 UTC 2022 Users running latest NVidia drivers (495.46 and 510.54) will not be able to run startx due to a bug in xorg-server which has been reported (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1275). Users may need to rebuild xorg-server with a patch (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/uploads/77b05c7b76be45e56447f37950be3092/present-crash-fix.diff) unless the patch is backported back to Slackware 15.0. Sun May 9 18:18:03 UTC 2021 Users running xdm instead of the default kdm might face a situation where users can't login. This happened because there's a race condition issue in xdm which can be solved easily by adding this line in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config: DisplayManager*AuthName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 Tue Mar 17 14:58:26 UTC 2020 Users running Slackware 14.2 upgraded to current will got an error when logging in using runlevel 4. It worked fine on runlevel 3. This happened on MATE 1.24. One solution is to install slim (available on SBo). Sat Apr 9 02:20:05 UTC 2016 Help menus and help buttons are now enabled but they will not be usable unless you have yelp (this requires webkit2gtk not provided here, but available in SBo). For those interested to build yelp, you may find the SlackBuild in testing/yelp. Mon Jun 10 03:09:28 UTC 2013 (FIXED) If you are encountering problems with Caja (MATE's file manager) opening directories when clicking on files in certain programs like Dropbox, Skype, and others, please execute the following steps to fix it: As your regular user, back up the following file: $HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and then enter the next two commands in a terminal to set the default handler: xdg-mime default caja-folder-handler.desktop inode/directory xdg-mime default caja-folder-handler.desktop application/x-directory You should be all set. Thanks to Totoro-kun and T3slider for reporting and discussing this in the LQ forums and also thanks to Giorgos Keramidas for creating the initial patch. Here is a link to the LQ thread which also has a link to Giorgos's blog with the patch: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=4968614 UPDATE: Mon Mar 13 01:27:06 UTC 2017 mate-desktop has been updated to provide default application for some categories. This will only work with new user. Existing user will not be affected and manual intervention will still be needed. Wed Mar 27 04:23:24 UTC 2013 If you have dual monitor with NVidia card and set it up to use both monitors as separate, you might encounter some freeze lockup. A temporary workaround is to change it into TwinView in your xorg.conf Sun Mar 24 02:47:56 UTC 2013 If you run into strange panel issues, or missing icons, or theme problems, please consider backing up or clearing out some of the hidden directories in your $HOME, like $HOME/.config and $HOME/.cache and $HOME/.local. If you switch back and forth between different desktop environments, sometimes those settings can get polluted. You can also try to remove/rename your .gtkrc-2.0 if it does exists on your home directory. Fri Mar 22 16:43:36 UTC 2013 Working to determine whether mate-polkit is necessary. According to upstream, it is, although it results in duplicative polkit actions when a USB stick is inserted, for example. Disabling polkit-gnome in the "Startup Applications" is a workaround until more testing is done.