Hello, In these days searching to fix security details on my station, eg. reducing the exposure to GUI programs, etc. I tried to port my dev environment from Xfce to Mate and here some of my thoughts:
1) Mate is much lighter, eg tcl/tk software go up like a twist; 2) by multi screens the porting is a true adventure cause Mate doesn't come with a "Display utility", all the screen configuration happens by xrandr; 3) the software that accompaign Mate is few or doesnt run, eg the power management utility doesnt function or I can't set my custom 5 Mode background (the background utility doesnt pop up); 4) the context menu by right clicking anywhere on the desktop has no application menu apparently.. this the latest problem.. I passed a full night with Mate (..) but for now I was happy to come back to my steps and restore Xfce, although performances seem very interesting. -Dan
