For this look, I’m using Redmond panel setting in Tweak. I wish so much that this is the way Windows had looked in ‘95, ‘98, XP, and Vista, etc.–easy-to-see date and clock (I have terrible vision). For said date and clock, I’m using the background switcher, Variety, which also allows putting quotes on the desktop. The colors are my choice–I edited variety.conf in .config/variety; I have about 6 files that differ only in the colors they tell Variety to show:
For this view, it’s also another Cairo Dock–I use Latte for even more looks, not to mention the various looks with Plank. In Cairo Dock, the Neon theme is included. I decided to add the Classic Menu to the taskbar because, well, I think it’s pretty unique, being so classic. Some icons are again from BeautyLine–a theme that UM Appearances in Control Center can direct you to.
You could re-title this thread as a Ubuntu MATE Screenshot thread, and/or if you also provided some clues as to what you did (including what release you’re using), it’ll be more useful to readers/viewers so they know how they can tweak their own installs to look as ‘cool’ as yours.
Some of the other flavors have screenshot threads, eg. Xubuntu here, Lubuntu here … where I don’t see one yet for Ubuntu MATE. In my opinion, they do seem to garner some attention, where attention/publicity is usually a good thing.
@Wild_Man Hey. Just added explanations, per @guiverc . If there’s something I didn’t explain, ask away. Glad you liked these–it’s almost unlimited what I can make for a GUI.
Another Cairo Dock–Default-Panel is what I started with. I chose the bright yellow and the black outline of the clock (right-clicking on the clock); the icons themselves, I right-clicked on the Cairo Dock bar, selected Add Custom Launcher, and pointed the Path to Image Name to the icon I wanted, along with the Steam command.
Good that someone has gone thru the effort of showing a range of very different Desktop layouts that can be had by simply modifying settings offered by Ubuntu MATE and MATE Desktop.
Another view, just for the heck of it–Latte dock this time. The clock is in Bold format so that I can easily read it; right-clicking on the clock gives options, as well as the dock itself to set sizes. I decided to have the Cupertino-like layout because it makes looking at my videos so simple. The icons were brought along with what I have in the Advanced Menu when I dragged-and-dropped. I change icons by going into Advanced Menu, scrolling for the game or entry, right-clicking and choosing Properties, then clicking icon and directing to new image, so things can have a new look.
Mutiny screenshot (something else MATE offers)–just replaced the indicator icon set because Variety shows clock/date and is big enough that I can see it. Colors chosen in Variety.conf.
Redmond view chosen in MATE Tweak; yellow fill, with what in Variety.conf is called the Strokewidth of 4.8 , second entry of Srokewidth 2.2, in contrasting black
Hi, @suivue Here is another Cairo Dock–the included theme, Chrome Rounded, is what I started with. I used some icons from /usr/share
Opera is my newspaper. Windows 10 let me access many different newspapers; Now that I don’t have Windows 10, Opera is my Linux answer to that problem. The Windows 10 came with a drive I bought on eBay.
Usually use Firefox for everything, but Chrome has me signed into everything Google.
Just for the heck of it, Familiar Tweak setting. The ability to instantly go to the desktop by clicking Show, where I can see the date/clock from Variety, is terrific.
Wish the screen capture would show the Menu. I edited the /.config/mate-menu/application.list to get the order exactly how I want it–can change the icons to fit the look of the dock.
Desktop from Ubuntu-mate 24.04 with Global Menu with the Ambiant-MATE-Dark theme from Ubuntu 20.04 and hardy wallpaper as background.
A set of scripts is able to create/restore a backup of the profile directory, setup the desktop as shown, disable snap, fix menu/user interface issues, install software:
@w.m0zart Thanks for the tip–sorry I didn’t Google it. The icons in the menu are from the site where you can get themes, icons, from where Control Center points you–these icons are from a package called BeautyLine. Cairo Dock is the theme, here, where I have my usual apps; started with Default-Single, right-clicked the clock and set it to digital, then chose the colors as well as outline thickness.
I’ve been facing issues with it (that I was unable to fix) and, because of the development hiatus that led to no 26.04 release, I migrated to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 w/ Backports repository enabled. The experience is good, the Cinnamon DE is nice and flexible but never the same thing as MATE. And installing MATE on any other distro is not the same thing as Ubuntu MATE, there’s the special sauce in it that I can’t find anywhere else.
When 28.04 becomes a thing, I’ll do my testing and maybe I’ll migrate back.
You can share them (if you still have UM on any machine where you can reproduce the issue). Of course as separate topic; preferably one for each issue so we can be more focused. We will see how we can help.
Basically, my issues were regarding system stability after upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04, couldn’t figure out what or why but I tried LOTS of things. Unfortunately I don’t have any machine with UM right now but I appreciate the offer.
