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Hello, I found the solution here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1918649 You have to edit the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file, setting 'session-cleanup-script' can be set to any script you want to run when the user logs out. Works also when you do not shut down the system. Kind Regards, Hu...

Hi Peer, thank you for your reply but I am not looking for a script, I am looking for a place to start my script when a user logs out (so not system shutdown). I was using Centos and Gnome 2 before it was rendered unusable with version 3 and then Mate which was basically identical. I was using /etc/...

Hello, I spent quite some time on this and found a lot of stuff on the internet but nothing worked with Debian 11 / Mate so far. What I need is to run a script when the user logs out. Similar to the "Control Center" -> "Startup Applications" but not at login but at logoff time. H...

Hello bw123, yes, you are right, it is sorted in "numerical order", whatever that means. But if I do sort without -n I get the sequence I expect and that I'd like to see. ./gnomerc does not exist of course and I have no idea what the equivalent in mate is called; that they changed all the ...

Hello, when I sort in cara by file name the result is not in alphabetical order (see attachment). Although I can see in other directories the reasoning behind that implementation and that a lot of work went into that I would prefer the good old fashioned alphabetical order (ASCII characters only). I...

bx249 wrote: ↑2021-12-21 10:05 When you have the file picker window, press CTRL+H

Yes, thank you very much, that does the trick!
Not very intuitive though and very hard to guess. Maybe the mozo setting for the directories could be used?

Kind Regards,
Hugo

Actually just checked: changing an Icon on the Desktop shows the same behaviour.
So it seems it has nothing to do with mozo but is rather a Mate setting / feature.

In the mean time I simply collected all the icons and copied them into a normal directory. Not ideal but works.

Copying your /home was probably a bad idea. Maybe. But how else could I transfer all my work files and applications from the past 40+ years? I created a new user with the same result. When browsing for icons the directories starting with a . are not being displayed hence cannot be selected. With th...

Hello, I changed recently from Centos to Debian. I copied my /home directory but it seems that Mate 1.2.4 stores the Applications menu settings differently. So I have to create my menus with Mozo again. The commands with a text entry field is no problem but in order to select an icon there is only t...