Mate 1.26

Skaendo · 08-11-2021, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by willysr

No, i don't know if i used them here, so i guess it's better if you can maintain it in SBo in the future

OK. Then I make a call for testers in a new thread.

Skaendo · 08-11-2021, 01:38 PM

I have found one little issue. The HPLIP system tray icon not working. I don't know if this is a MATE or something Slackware related.

Skaendo · 08-12-2021, 12:47 AM

Playing with a "new" compositor.

kgha · 08-16-2021, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by willysr

I'm having issue with MATE 1.26 with power management. When my monitor is idle, it stays showing blank screen, but everything else works fine. I don't know if anyone else having this issue as well

Confirmed on my machine after upgrading to mate-power-manager-1.26.0-x86_64-2 (Aug 13).

It might well be that this goes back to the 1.26 release for me as well, only that I haven't noticed (probably not kept the monitor idle long enough, I usually suspend when leaving it for a longer period).

Willy, since you are the msb maintainer, have you found anything upstream that can explain this behaviour?

Daedra · 08-16-2021, 03:53 PM

I have had problems in the past with screen blanking and not coming back on. I basically gave up and just disabled it altogether using

Code:

xset -dpms
xset s off
xset s noblank

Then just turn my monitor off if I am going to be away for an extended period of time. This doesn't count as a fix but maybe worth a try.

kgha · 08-18-2021, 01:36 AM

Another issue with mate-1.26 that I've experienced is that the panel's window list occasionally disappears. I get a dialog box telling me it has quit unexpectedly (indeed!) and allowing me to reload it.

Maybe it would be a good idea reverting to 1.24? I guess it would be fairly easy to build all 1.24 packages with Willy's mate-build-base and -extra buildscripts and the 1.24.1 release from mate-desktop?

willysr · 08-18-2021, 01:49 AM

i had this issue on my wife's desktop, but i never had this issue on my desktop.
I think it happened when the load is pretty high

kgha · 08-18-2021, 09:15 AM

I've removed xscreensaver and xfce4-screensaver (why does xfce carry two screensavers?) and deleted the ~/.screensaver file. Right now it seems as if the blank screen issue has disappeared and the mate screensaver kicks in as expected. Will give it some more time and see what happens.

I've seen other threads about the window list issue. In some cases (Archlinux) it was solved by downgrading cairo to 1.17.2, but slackware -current has cairo-1.16 (last updated in February), so that's probably not the way forward. Another suggestion was to disable the thumbnail view when hovering over the window list, or resizing it from default 200p. I resized to 256 and will se if it helps. See https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/1166