hi guys,

You can find MATE 1.14 and Cinnamon 3.0 packages for Slackware 14.2 in the usual repository provided by Darren below:
http://slackware.uk/csb/14.2/
http://slackware.uk/msb/14.2/1.14/

Note for users that prefer to compile manually:
General:
master branch is tracking latest releases (either stable/development) and always using Slackware Current as base so things may break when current development starts again.

MSB:
master branch in git is now tracking 1.15 development cycle with some new deps and more porting to GTK+3. If you want to build MATE 1.14 by yourself against Slackware 14.2, please use 14.2-mate-1.14 branch. GTK3 branch has been rebased against latest master changes.

CSB:
master branch will keep rolling out Cinnamon releases, including major upgrade (3.0 -> 3.x) while Slackware 14.2 packages will be built from 14.2 branch.

We now host the projects in both github and gitlab:
CSB:
https://github.com/CinnamonSlackBuilds/csb
https://gitlab.com/CinnamonSlackBuilds/csb

MSB:
https://github.com/mateslackbuilds/msb
https://gitlab.com/mateslackbuilds/msb

Running both flawlessly on a fresh 14.2 install. Very impressed with the looks of Cinnamon, very polished!

Thanks for all your efforts to give us additional desktops to work with!!

Mate 1.14 is rock solid on 14.2 - thanks again Willy!

Just as soon as I get done building.......


.....Willy updates something.


Story of my life.

Thanks for this work Willy. Mate is my desktop of choice but I am thinking about giving Cinnamon a go.

Hi,

I've installed MATE on Slackware 14.2 and I'm impressed - it's awesome
Just one issue: nm-applet is running, but the icon in the panel is missing upon reboot - the quickest way to restore it I've found is by restarting NetworkManager.
Is this a known issue?

No, THAT is awesome: https://awesome.naquadah.org/

SCNR

does this issue persists after reboot or only happening the first time only?

Please use 14.2-mate-1.14 for less updates :-)
master branch is now tracking 1.15 development cycle

it does present itself after every reboot

try this:
that should fix it

Unfortunately, the script didn't work. Mind that nm-applet is running in background, I just don't see the icon in MATE's panel (next to the clock, with the default settings).
Restarting NetworkManager makes it appear; in particular, even just *stopping* the service makes the icon visible.
I tried reinstalling NetworkManager and network-manager-applet with no results.

can you check whether you have /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop ?

i saw in VM and also in my wife's computer that also use 14.2 and MATE 1.14 nm-applet is there
This screenshot was taken from a fresh installation of Slackware 14.2 in a VM used to build MATE 1.14 packages: https://mateslackbuilds.github.io/images/mate1.png

yes, /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop is present.
This machine has been updated from current to 14.2 stable, and then I've added MATE.
I suspect something went weird in the process. I'll investigate further and report here in case of success. Thanks for your help anyways!

you can use slackpkg reinstall slackware{64} to reinstall all packages

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