Using MATE Desktop in Ubuntu

[fragadelic]

If you want to use MATE as your default desktop you will notice that the installer icon does not show up in the menu or on the desktop.  This is due to the way that the ubiquity-gtkui.desktop has been setup by the ubuntu developers.  Mate needs to be added to the OnlyShowIn line and the script below will do that for you as well as copy your settings from the original user with the uid of 1000 and then run the remastersys dist.  The script needs to be run as root or with sudo.  I called mine "prepremaster" and put it in /usr/local/bin/

Code:

#!/bin/bash

apt-get install ubiquity-frontend-gtk

sed -i -e 's/OnlyShowIn=/OnlyShowIn=MATE\;/g' /usr/share/applications/ubiquity-gtkui.desktop

user=`cat /etc/passwd | grep ":1000:" | awk -F ":" '{print $1}'`
echo $user

remastersys-skelcopy $user

sleep 1

remastersys clean

sleep 1

remastersys dist

If you don't want it to run the remaster or copy settings then just use the following script before your run remastersys and run it as root or with sudo.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

apt-get install ubiquity-frontend-gtk

sed -i -e 's/OnlyShowIn=/OnlyShowIn=MATE\;/g' /usr/share/applications/ubiquity-gtkui.desktop

[tommaso]

Hi,

I'd like to ask if with Mate and MDM it is possible to have autologin in casper just like in gdm, lightdm, lxdm etc. I've looked in

Code:

/home/remastersys/remastersys/ISOTMP/casper/initrd.gz/initrd/scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin

but there's no line about mdm. In fact, after the creation of the iso with

Code:

sudo remastersys dist

the live session asks to prompt the login. Am I doing something wrong, or simply casper does not support mdm?

Thank you very much!

tommaso

[fragadelic]

Ubuntu's casper does not support mate.