Linux Lite with the MATE Desktop

[N4RPS]

Hello!

LL does NOT 'play nice' with any other desktop environments. If you try to install the MATE desktop, LXDE, or any other desktop environment into Linux Lite, it will irreparably break your LL install by wiping out the modified code that makes LL what it is.

Once this happens, the only fix for it is to reinstall Linux Lite. You see, LL has a number of features that depend on XFCE to work properly...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[rijnsma]

Thanks for the warning! 

[George S Rasmussen]

...LL does NOT 'play nice' with any other desktop environments. If you try to install the MATE desktop, LXDE, or any other desktop environment into Linux Lite, it will irreparably break your LL install by wiping out the modified code that makes LL what it is..

Expand on that with real details please. I installed Mate' using Synaptic and want to switch between Mate' and Xfce at login to experiment with what's possible and what's not in Linux Lite 4.2. However at the login screen there's no obviously available option to switch between these two installed DE's.

Long story short, I'd like to know how the original author of this thread was able to install, select and run Mate' as he obviously did looking at the photos he posted..

[George S Rasmussen]

Linux Lite 2.0 with MATE desktop and mint Menu.
[img height=450 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/J81TNMn.png[/img]

[img height=400 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/1o1mGMy.png[/img]
Just an experiment.

Misko, thanks for the photos you posted with the Mate' desktop environment running on Linux Lite. I'd like to do the same. I've completely installed Mate' using Synaptic, but on reboot at the login screen there's no apparent option to select and run Mate' instead of Xfce in LL 4.2.

Any help you or anyone else might give so I can select the already installed Mate' desktop at login would be greatly appreciated. ..Thanks!

[anon222]

It's hard to remember what was yesterday for lunch. This was four years ago with Linux Lite 2.0.
Probably changed something with Lightdm.

From my experiance people in the community think that if you install another desktop environment distro/respin breaks.
Some even say that if Gnome is installed then it's no longer that distro. Guys at antiX linux for example.
So if you install and use something that is taboo on the forums you most likely will not get support.

Christmas was yesterday and tomorrow is slava, and in sunday we wait for New Year. I will look into it some time after that.
Things have changed since then. Mate is now ported to Gtk3 and xfce4 is about 85% ported to Gtk3.

[Valtam]

This operating system has one purpose. To introduce linux to people who haven't used it before.

I repeat, 'This operating system'...oh why bother.

There still seems to be many people who still don't understand this, despite being around for long enough. And because of arrogance, and or ignorance, they never will get it. Why would we spend hundreds of hours supporting another DE that has not had any time spent on it by our Dev's? It's tantamount to disrespect to ask me if I'll help you with another DE on Linux Lite. I support our software base, our DE and our custom software, that's all. I'm simply going to direct your attention to why, and leave it at that. If that is unacceptable, I don't care.

If you're going to try and counter-argue this message, then it's just more proof that you just don't get it. I don't apologize for being so direct here, after all this time, it seems the language needs to be clearer.

[timbuck2]

I support you distro's mission statement and usage of xfce for the DE.  It is lightweight and works great on older hardware and is highly configurable.  It is a great choice for what you have created here.  Thanks for your work.

I tried Linux Mint with its cinnamon DE and quickly shifted back to LL.  I have used linux extensively about 10 years ago, but still consider this distro the best all around for ease of use and for what it is targeted toward.

[Valtam]

Cheers Tim.

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[Linuxkumpel]

@ Jerry! Right, clear message.    LL is in my opinion one of the best Xfce distributions. You see, what I use everything.

[Moltke]

I've tried many distros via virtualbox and several DEs and always find xfce to be the best, maybe outperformed for KDE since it has a lot of features that I really enjoy but not as customizable, at least in my experience which to be honest was rather short. I even installed awesome-wm in LL last year since is keyboard oriented and I really love that, but then lightdm didn't showed the option to log in, I managed to do so but then I couldn't log in to xfce, so after some trials and errors I understood LL wasn't made for people who wanted to experiment with this; so let LL be! which is just perfect the way it is. If you don't like it then by all means try another one since there's plenty out there for you to choose. Now, if you want a rock-solid stable foolproof system which doesn't get in your way and works out the box then LL is most likely what you want.