Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:25:17 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>Installing mate-desktop-environment seems to be a better choice.

That's what I posted before Colin posted "mate-desktop", however, as
already pointed out, the OP likely wants neither
"mate-desktop-environment", nor "mate-desktop", but likely the
meta-package "ubuntu-mate-desktop". It's worth to spend one or two
hours to check what is installed by dependencies of dependencies of
those meta-packages. The OP doesn't need to care about all
dependencies, just care about what is easy to understand.

E.g. does he need both, "Nautilus" "file manager and graphical shell for
GNOME " and "Caja" "file manager for the MATE desktop"?

Btw. both file managers by default try to manage the desktop, but have
an option "--no-desktop". The OP might need to edit the desktop files.

Regards,
Ralf