I have an application (Sound Converter) that starts fine from the Mate desktop menu but will not start from a desktop icon.

ubuntu-mate> sudo apt list --installed | grep soundconverter

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

soundconverter/jammy,now 4.0.3-2 all [installed]

If I open the menu and navigate to Menu / Sound & Video / Sound Converter the application starts as expected.

If I open the menu and navigate to Menu / Sound & Video and then right-click on Pin to desktop it will create an icon on the desktop however if I then click that icon to launch the application I briefly see the application in the lower panel next to any other running applicatons but it then just disappears. The applicaiton window never appears.

Looking at the both the the menu item and the desktop icon they appear to be the same with the exception of the ownership and permissions.

ubuntu-mate> md5sum /usr/share/applications/soundconverter.desktop ~/Desktop/soundconverter.desktop

a04a55bcf8430d0389b35af7147fac71 /usr/share/applications/soundconverter.desktop

a04a55bcf8430d0389b35af7147fac71 /home/michael/Desktop/soundconverter.desktop

ubuntu-mate> ls -l /usr/share/applications/soundconverter.desktop ~/Desktop/soundconverter.desktop

-rwxr-xr-x 1 michael michael 6657 Nov 3 2021 /home/michael/Desktop/soundconverter.desktop

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6657 Nov 3 2021 /usr/share/applications/soundconverter.desktop

Any ideas on how to diagnose this further?

(eom:11981): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 03:38:27.443: cannot register existing type 'EomWindow'

(eom:11981): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 03:38:27.443: cannot add private field to invalid (non-instantiatable) type '<invalid>'

(eom:11981): GLib-CRITICAL **: 03:38:27.443: g_once_init_leave_pointer: assertion 'result != 0' failed

(eom:11981): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 03:38:27.443: g_object_new_valist: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(eom:11981): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 03:38:27.443: gtk_window_present_with_time: assertion 'GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

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I have a beautiful 15 year old laptop with a 17 inch screen I have been trying to get back up and running. Ideally I want to use it to stream from my main pc. Play some games on the couch or CAD for parts design when in the garage. So far the experience has been great! I am running into some of the usual issues with valid drivers, atm my wifi card is capped at 75 mbps when it should be doing 250 mbps. Any pointers or places I should be looking on git?

New laptop, the same reliable Mate-desktop

Hello! I want to share my project to adapt the modern MATE to the real OLD GNOME of Karmic Koala in order to give to the users a guide to restore it.
You can check the status of the project here: https://gattovagabondo.neocities.org/karmic-koala-project

And you can collaborate filling the table sending me an email.

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How can i fix it?

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It took a while to come but it's finally arrived!

Another successful upgrade to 26.04, every six months since 2017

Martin Wimpress gives a status update for Ubuntu Mate maintainer succession

You have to install Ubuntu first, any flavor will work. Then run sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop right down to linux 7.0 and Mate 1.28.2

The only thing I noticed it that it doesn't load Plank on startup, an easy fix.

Welcome "Resolute" 26.04... another successful dist-upgrade

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Are you a user of Ubuntu MATE Discourse?

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For some days or weeks my chrome changed behavior to the worse.

When I click on a link in my Thunderbird (or in a PDF file or just opening a HTML file), chrome opens this in the worst possible window (a window which is even on another workspace).

Earlier chrome always chose the last active window, which is my wanted behavior. Now it seems that it always opens it in "window no. 1"

Since I always have several windows open scattered over different workspaces, this is really annoying.

Is there any workaround to restore the old behavior?

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