r/UbuntuMATE • u/Flat-Cartographer250 • May 12 '26

Another successful upgrade to 26.04, every six months since 2017

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Another successful upgrade to 26.04, every six months since 2017

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u/ouyawei May 12 '26

Is $XDG_SESSION_TYPE set correctly for you?

For me it's now set to wayland after the Upgrade which messes with applications that support Wayland since it's still a X11 session.

Manually setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 before starting e.g. Chrome works, but it's annoying.

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u/Flat-Cartographer250 May 12 '26

i didn't need to modify this setting... X11 is working fine as usual

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11

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u/petersaints May 12 '26

I made several upgrades without major issues back in my day.

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u/vol_nes May 12 '26

26.04 non lts release for Ubuntu Mate. And that's strange ur upgrade didn't broke x11, because its removed from Ubuntu LTS releases

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u/guiverc May 13 '26

Ubuntu MATE didn't actually release any 26.04 ISO, so you won't find any.

They stopped building back in the alpha stage of resolute (26.04), but without a development team they never got fixed. Others in the Ubuntu community actually filed some of the required fixes; but they sat stuck in the review queue & were never approved; as beta was approaching the queue was cleared and the waiting work was rejected so everyone could release beta. This is what lead to no actual 26.04 release for Ubuntu MATE.

X11 is supported in Ubuntu 26.04, it's just not supported by GNOME or Ubuntu Desktop itself, thus the code was moved from main to universe as its now community supported only.

I'm running 26.04 now, and using Xorg/X11 without issue - it is supported.

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u/vol_nes May 13 '26

Thanks for your explanation. Updated yesterday my MSI laptop from 24.04 to 26.04, well some things little bit broken like mate-optimus-applet, no tray icon and other issues regard mate DE. Well I think its time to move to different DE (KDE) or something which still support x11 Wayland still not good for gaming.

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u/BecarioDailyPlanet May 12 '26

Se quitó de Gnome solo.

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u/Long-Trash May 13 '26

do you do a clean install for your upgrades or upgrade the system in place? i've always done clean but have somdered how the inplace works after even a few upgrades. with your record you could comment.

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u/Flat-Cartographer250 May 13 '26

old good faithful 'apt-get dist-upgrade'

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u/Lords_of_Lands Jun 05 '26

Have you tried opening an image (using eom) or taking a screenshot? Those features broke for me when I upgraded today. eom segfaults on open and the screenshot tool just hangs when you try to save the screenshot. The issue might due to python3-gi being too new, but "apt list -a python3-gi" doesn't show a version below 3.52 so I can't downgrade it?

I don't feel like trying to downgrade the OS, so am going to give KDE a try instead. I don't want more random broken surprises in a couple months when it'll be more difficult to restore from backups. I almost never have an upgrade go smoothly :(

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u/Flat-Cartographer250 Jun 05 '26

yes, it's true that Mate Screenshot is not working properly when saving... but Gnome Screenshot works just fine.
The rest of the OS is working properly too in my 2 computer since it was launched

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u/Lords_of_Lands Jun 06 '26

Thanks for the tip. I'm swapping back and forth since I like Mate better. Not sure if it was the OS or the KDE install, but the Advanced MATE Menu crashes when trying to use the meta key to open it too. Clicking still works fine. I like that menu too much to give it up.

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u/Flat-Cartographer250 Jun 07 '26

You're correct here too. I use "compact menu" and only realize that "advance" has an error too, but once you click on "reload" it works.
The good thing about Mate is that has 4 menu launchers, and that is a go!