MATE Desktop
Environment
The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
News
- — MATE 1.28 released
- — MATE 1.26 released
- — MATE 1.24 released
- — MATE 1.22 released
- — MATE 1.20 released
Features
Traditional Desktop
A classic desktop experience that’s familiar and productive. Panels, menus, and window management that just works.
Lightweight & Fast
Efficient and responsive. MATE runs beautifully on older hardware while providing a full-featured modern desktop.
Highly Customizable
Personalize your desktop with themes, panels, applets, and layouts. Multiple panel configurations to suit your workflow.
Accessible
Built-in accessibility features including screen reader support, high contrast themes, and full keyboard navigation.
Stable & Reliable
Rock-solid stability built on years of development. A desktop you can depend on for your daily work.
Active Community
Join a friendly community of users and developers. Get help, contribute code, translations, or artwork.
Multi-language Support
Available in dozens of languages with comprehensive internationalization. Use your desktop in your native language.
And Much More...
Panel applets / Compiz support / Themes / Session management / and more…
Applications
MATE is composed of a number of applications. The renaming is necessary to avoid conflicts with GNOME components.
Caja
Caja is the official file manager for the MATE desktop. It allows for browsing directories, as well as previewing files and launching applications associated with them. It is also responsible for handling the icons on the MATE desktop. It works on local and remote filesystems. Caja is a fork of Nautilus.
Pluma
Pluma is a text editor which supports most standard editor features. It also extends this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. Pluma is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI). Pluma fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files. Its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation, and printing support (with print preview). Pluma is a fork of Gedit.
Eye of MATE
Eye of MATE is a simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and can zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Eye of MATE is a fork of Eye of GNOME.
Atril
Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Atril is a fork of Evince.
Engrampa
Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. It allows you to create and modify archives, view the contents of an archive, view a file contained in an archive, and extract files from archive. Engrampa is a fork of File Roller.
MATE Terminal
MATE Terminal is a terminal emulation application that you can use to access a UNIX shell in the MATE environment. With it, you can run any application that is designed to run on VT102, VT220, and xterm terminals. MATE Terminal also has the ability to use multiple terminals in a single window (tabs) and supports management of different configurations (profiles). MATE Terminal is a fork of GNOME Terminal.
Where does the name come from?
The name MATE, pronounced Ma-Tay, comes from yerba maté, a species of holly native to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are used to make infusions and a beverage called mate.
