MATE Desktop Environment

The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktopenvironment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

MATE is under active development to add support for new technologies while preserving a traditional desktopexperience. See the Roadmap The MATE Manifesto outlines some of the principles that guide the project.

You can find more screenshots of MATE.

News

• 2017-03-13 23:30 MATE 1.18 released
• 2016-12-22 01:00 Server Outage
• 2016-09-21 21:00 MATE 1.16 released
• 2016-04-08 15:00 MATE 1.14 released
• 2015-11-05 20:00 MATE 1.12 released

Blog posts are also indexed by tag and archived by date.You might also want to take a look at Planet MATEto see what the wider MATE community are blogging about.

Which distributions support MATE?

MATE is available via the official repositories for the following Linux distributions:

• Alpine Linux
• AOSC
• Arch Linux
• Debian
• Fedora
• Gentoo
• Linux Mint
• Mageia
• Manjaro
• openSUSE
• Parrot Security OS
• PCLinuxOS
• PLD Linux
• Point Linux
• Sabayon
• Salix
• Solus
• Ubuntu
• Ubuntu MATE
• Vector Linux
• Void Linux

MATE is available via unofficial repositories for the following Linux distributions:

• Slackware

Maybe you prefer UNIX?

• GhostBSD
• FreeBSD
• OpenIndiana
• PC-BSD

You can also query DistroWatch.com for all the distributions that support MATE.

The MATE community has documented how to install MATE on many distributions in theinstall guidelines.

Applications

MATE is composed of a number of applications. The renaming is necessary toavoid conflicts with GNOME components.

Caja

Caja is the official file manager for the MATE desktop. It allows for browsingdirectories, as well as previewing files and launching applications associatedwith them. It is also responsible for handling the icons on the MATE desktop.It works on local and remote filesystems. Caja is a fork of Nautilus.

Pluma

Pluma is a text editor which supports most standard editor features. It alsoextends this basic functionality with other features not usually found insimple text editors. Pluma is a graphical application which supports editingmultiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI). Pluma fullysupports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding inedited files. Its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code,auto indentation, and printing support (with print preview). Pluma is a fork of Gedit.

Eye of MATE

eom or the Eye of MATE is a simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop whichuses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and can zoom andscroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standardscompliance. Eye of MATE is a fork of Eye of GNOME.

Atril

Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and printPostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS and PortableDocument Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, it also allowssearching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, andtable-of-contents bookmarks. Atril is a fork of Evince.

Engrampa

Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. It allows you tocreate and modify archives, view the contents of an archive, view a filecontained in an archive, and extract files from archive. Engrampa is a fork ofFile Roller.

MATE Terminal

MATE Terminal is a terminal emulation application that you can use to access aUNIX shell in the MATE environment. With it, you can run any application thatis designed to run on VT102, VT220, and xterm terminals. MATE Terminal also hasthe ability to use multiple terminals in a single window (tabs) and supportsmanagement of different configurations (profiles). MATE Terminal is a fork ofGNOME Terminal.

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