Create a xinitrc.MATE file (with the appropriate content) in /etc/X11/xinit/, then try it again.

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.mate is inside the mate-session-manager package.

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thanks that did it
It seems that not all MATE pkgs are ready for 14.0 and I needed to download mate-session-manager and a few other packages from the 13.37 repository.

No, packages for 14.0 are not ready at all. I wouldn't be surprised if the MATE 1.2 packages from 13.37 worked in 14.0 though. Once MATE 1.4 packages are ready for 14.0, I'll post a notification here.

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I added http://slackware.org.uk/salix/i486/14.0/ to slapt-get sources, installed the dependencies listed at the beginning of the thread, ran slapt-get --install-set mate, manually installed mate-session-manager from the 13.37 repository, and mate doesn't have a menu or menu-tray. Is this due to the lack of packages in the 14.0 repository that was mentioned earlier?

Yes...

mate-panel is missing for Slackware 14,i use that from 13.37

You're doing things you don't understand and that will result in problems eventually. Better wait for actual packages for 14.0.

Okay, I'll hang tight for a while. Thanks.

Interesting stuff. Once the packages for 14 are gtg, I'll give mate a whirl.

I'm taking my time, because I decided that's it's probably best to skip MATE 1.4 and wait for MATE 1.6, which will be a huge step forwards, as it will completely deprecate all old-gnome stuff and will also make MATE a lot easier to package/maintain.

That said, I'll probably be able to upload some MATE 1.5 (development release) packages in a week or so, preparing for 1.6.

gapan, thanks for this. Just switched from kde to xfce, now that I have a decent file manager to use (caja) :-)

Just tried Mate 1.2 for Salix64 13.37 on Slackware64 14.0 with dependencies from sbo and so far it works very well. Actually I am amazed. Many thanks for these packages. I will wait for MATE 1.6 patiently. Hopefully MATE could be included in official Slack one day

**EDIT**
Only problem I have encountered was clock panel applet not working. But I have fixed it by quick and dirty symlink:
Most likely this is due to different gnutls versions used in Slack 13.37 and 14.0 but thats just a pure speculation

I like MATE even more than I liked GNOME2 One really annoying thing that is still present in MATE is that ugly minimize animation. Possible to turn off but then dragging windows becomes even more ugly. Well hopefully they will fix that some day in a future. Anyways thanks again for bringing this awesome gui into Slackware world

I've got most of 1.5 packages ready for both i486 and x86_64. I need one or two things and I'll be able to upload them, so probably tomorrow if I find the time or Friday most probably I'll upload them.

If you don't ask them, it will never happen. Go ahead and talk to the mate devs in #mate about it.

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Also I will wait MATE 1.5 or 1.6 for Slackware 14.0 64bit.