David Griffith wrote: > > I've installed MATE 1.18 into /usr/local/ and added > /usr/local/share/xsessions to the sessions-director path in > /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. At the Lightdm login screen, I can now select > MATE for my desktop environment, but on logging in, MATE won't start. > What's wrong? I don't see anything relevant in /var/log about this.
i've not done this. sorry can't be of more direct help but you give me no idea where you are coming from on this or the amount of experience you have with trying it. > I can start mate-session in .xinitrc and use startx, but then MATE can't > find any themes... and I really would rather use Lightdm. > > Is anyone here tinkering with bleeding-edge MATE? How are you going about > it? i wasn't sure if you were referring to a specific project by that name or just the idea of getting the most recent MATE tars and building your own. after looking i don't see any project by that name so... have you looked at the MATE project pages for building and installing? http://mate-desktop.org/ the community page seems appropriate: and i wandered through: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/building http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/buildscript i'm not quite ready to attempt it, short on time today. also there is the pkg-mate-team archives at: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mate-team/ but i'd use that as a last resort since they are busy enough with packaging/bugs/etc (getting ready for stretch). the other more obvious things to do would be to get the packages as made already and see where and how they are putting things. $ apt-get build-dep pkg then $ apt-get source pkg and see how it is put together and what patches are being applied when set up and building... songbird
