Mate desktop for Saucy?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 14:18:56 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/05/2013 08:56 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 5 September 2013 19:29, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed Ubuntu 13.10 in a VM just to play with it. I really REALLY
>>> would rather run Mate desktop, but I can't find instructions to install
>>> it. mate-common is in the repos, but not mate-desktop. Have they not
>>> ported it to 13.10 yet?
>> Since 13.10 is not even out yet - no.
>>
>> If you really want Maté without hassle, run Mint.
>>
>> If you want something GNOME-2 like and lightweight, Xubuntu is good.
>
> My current full-time desktop is Ubuntu 13.04 running Mate ( also have
> XFCE4, which was my standard before I installed Mate).
> I decided to install 13.10 in a VM to test it out. I love to see what is
> out there for the future. All I wanted to know is, is Mate available for
> 13.10 , if not, maybe when? Isn't 13.10 due out in October?

Is Mate available in 13.04 from the regular repos?!




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