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stevepusser wrote:You could temporarily disable that pinning file, then see what happens with the upgrade--at least simulate it with the the "-s" flag.
My guess was that that functionality had been folded into the newer control center instead of being separate--there seems to be a few of those for the new mate-applets, too.
stevepusser wrote:My guess was that that functionality had been folded into the newer control center instead of being separate--there seems to be a few of those for the new mate-applets, too.
Do you mean that is integrated to the new mate control center and the applets?
Updated mate-desktop, libmateweather, and mate-terminal to 1.16.1, and added mate-optimus, which is a panel applet to display the status and control the use of the Nvidia GPU in Optimus systems.
Works just fine, except that a few applications (Synaptic, galculator, Grub Customizer and SciTE) lost formatting in their menu bars. So, what I had was like:
In addition, the height of the menu bars reduced to that of the font.
Quite a lot of searching indicated it was a GTK related problem but I had no success in finding a specific answer. However, there was mention of some packages that assist in unifying the look when apps from different desktops are used. So, I installed gtk2-engines-qtcurve. This pulled in kde-style-qtcurve and I also installed gtk2-engines-oxygen (to match the icon set that I use).
Hmm--the reports that get to me say that most of the updaters are using the 1.16.1 OBS repo instead of the 1.14 one. That one seems to be more gtk 2 centric than the upstream Debian 1.14 version--I ported 1.16.1 from a PPA that was aiming to build against gtk 2 to avoid theming issues. I've had reports that the Arc theme works really we1l.
Sorry Steve, my mistake. 1.16, not 1.14, from your Opensuse repo.
Haven't tried the Arc theme, but will when I get a chance.
Really just wanted to post up the solution. For once Google failed me and it was only following a series of links that seemed to confirm the GTK2 issue. The fix was a bit of a wild guess but I was pleasantly surprised when it worked.
Of course they did. A week after I got jack of not having my weather widget and took the risk of creating a FrankenDebian by installing MATE 1.16. Not rolling back now - it works just fine.
I made a new Jessie OBS repository for MATE 1.18 and did a test upgrade on a 1.16 installation I had in a virtual machine. It went smoothly and I don't see any theme issues with what I'm using, but users should be aware that 1.18 is now all GTK 3, all the time, so any GTK 3 themes must work with Jessie's 3.14.
Not fully, the Jessie 1.18 marco MATE window manager can't be installed on Stretch because it wants a library version only found in Jessie; libgtop2-7. Everything else was upgradable in my simulation in a Live VBox session of a Stretch-based distro (antiX 17 alpha) When I had it remove marco and the mate-desktop-environment packages and upgrade the rest in antiX, I could log out and back into a MATE 1.18 session--so I guess it fell back onto one of the other lightweight gtk window managers included in antiX. I bet it could also fall back onto xfwm if that was installed in straight Debian.
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i resolved the error by removing the mate-faenza-icon-theme 1.16.obs using the synaptic package manager and reinstalled version 1.18.0 from there. thanks a lot Steve.