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Could be a graphics bug (I had similar artefacts in Jessie with AMD and Gnome). As the problem didn't occur in your previous install, it suggests there's something missing from your latest install. Graphics firmware maybe? Everything should be the same compared to my older Debian 10 install. I don'...

Does it happen with other desktops? Does it happen on other OS, e.g. if you boot a live CD? Have you installed fonts manually or messed with font caching? Have you manually installed video card drivers? If you mean other desktops like any of the four in MATE, then yes. I don't think it happens with...

Further experiments reveal nothing. I've tried different fonts but it seems to happen to any font. Suddenly, often first in the browser. Colored blocks, missing lines in font and other erratic behavior. Sometimes a white pattern could appear outside fonts, across the screen. It usually disappear whe...

I'm running Mate 1.20.4 on a Debian 10 system (Linux 4.19.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.194-3 (2021-07-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux) and mostly everything is fine, but sometimes the font randomly breaks down where letters are replaced by colored boxes. If I temporarily increase or decrease font size in Caja...

But should there not be a place/file somewhere to specify what caja/natilus should do when "executing" unknown files? I mean, skype may be bad, but it's not a rootkit and not in the control of the file explorer.

Yes, the same link that FreewheelinFrank found #4. There seems not to be any progress here, so I will stick with Debian 10. I really hope this doesn't back-propagates to 10. I will not be happy if this BS appears after at sudo apt upgrade... To say this is a "feature" and be so delusional ...

Hi. I have a problem where the proprietary POS program Skype is "stealing" all files not associated with other programs. If a file is of type "Unknown" and opens with "No application selected" in Caja's file property dialog, then skype starts when clicking or hitting en...

Ok, good (in some ways) to know that I'm not alone in this regard. I'm still on Debian 10 on all my computers since I did not make any progress to fix this total showstopper of a "feature".

craigevil: But as I understand, its already established that this is supposed to be a brain-dead "feature" and not a bug, if you follow FreewheelinFrank link (bug report) and then searching around with keywords you find there. Some discussion about "mouse following focus" and oth...

Hmm, maybe an update works better than a clean install? Don't think I want to risk it. Debian 10 is pretty new and modern anyway. What version of MATE do you run? 1.24.x? My latest netinstall of Debian 10.10 got me MATE 1.20.4.

Ok, my solution was to reinstall Debian 10. After installing Debian 11 on three desktops and four laptops I noticed that Debian started to "rot" from day one. Installing Lazarus on one machine got a broken install from fresh. Another had font and color problems. And another had strange pin...

Ah, maybe OP for "Original Post(er)" is the term, not TP (Top Poster). Not my native language, I hope I being understood! ;) I didn't mentioned it before, because I didn't think it was relevant, but I did install KDE Plasma in frustration and used it for a few days. It was a beautiful and ...

Thanks, both sunrat and FreewheelinFrank for your answers! Yes, I found something like this bug report, but it's never easy to know which keyword people uses and as I don't know if the problem is linux, Debian, Mate or something else I did not found something useful really. Haven't found any solutio...

I don't like to bump threads, but I don't feel like I have any options. How can this be unanswered for so long? Does it not affect everybody who is running MATE 1.24 (1.24.1 in my case)? I've reinstalled Debian 11, but no solution. This is a complete showstopper that seriously hampers my workflow an...

I have the exact same problem. Very annoying. For instance, going thru a directory (Caja) with music. Clicking on a mp3, the player launches. Exit the player and the directory is now in the front. But not focused. I first thought it was my keyboard, but no. The window is on top, but not in focus. So...