On 01/31/2015 07:15 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 01/31/2015 05:23 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>> For a while (like a few weeks), mate was saving the apps running on the
>> DT when I shutdown the system, and they would be auto started on
>> reboot.
>> Slowly, some apps no longer get started.
>> This behavior first manifested 2 or 3 months ago when the
>> mate-terminals
>> would no longer be started on reboot.
>> Then it was ktorrent.
>> Now, added to that is smplayer.
>> I had raised a bug with mate, but the bug report was rejected.
>> I am on the verge of dumping Mate altogether. Cinnamon is just
>> not mature enough, and I literally detest gnome3. It does nothing
>> that I want or like.
>>
>> Hope that future fedora users who want to switch to mate might
>> see this and decide if they still want to run mate.
>>
> I'm not sure I understand your complaint. I run Mate, and I have, for a
> while now. from Fed 20 to now fed21..
> though I don't autostart MUCH, I do autostart teamviewer and Samsung
> Smartpanel..
>
Not much to understand.
When I shutdown, and I have a few gui apps running,
and I reboot, mate no longer restarts what gui apps were running
when I shutdown, that is to say what used to be restarted on
re-login, no longer get restarted on re-login.
When I was writing Linux Utilities Cookbook, my publisher wanted a
chapter on some the desktops that were available. I can say from my
research that Mate, at least for me, seemed to be the best one. This is
just my opinion, and no I don't want to start a GUI which-one-is-best?
discussion. I am just saying that if you really like Mate you are
probably not going to like any of the alternatives.
I have to admit I didn't realize Mate even HAD an auto start feature. I
probably wouldn't use it since I rarely reboot my systems (I wrote a
script that sets up my terminal sessions) but it's nice to know that
feature is available.
Jim Lewis