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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.
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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