Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-20 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, John Morris sent: > Dunno about the other problems but those two behaviors are normal. > ~/Desktop is a standardized location so both desktop environments > will see a .desktop file dropped there. Well some window managers will use that for any file that's

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 12:51 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I also found an curious issue. The system > this problem is occuring on is a laptop, and I have an external monitor > attached. When I loggen into Gnome Classic the external monitor was an > extension of the laptop display, i.e. I

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 12:51:47 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > The system is about 80% idle.  What is interesting is I tried using > the Gnome Classic desktop and I had the same issue regarding logging > out. The difference is I was never able to logout of Gnome Classic > until

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
The system is about 80% idle.  What is interesting is I tried using the Gnome Classic desktop and I had the same issue regarding logging out.  The difference is I was never able to logout of Gnome Classic until I killed off the processes.  I also found an curious issue.  The system this

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 May 2018 08:39:24 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > on my F27 system with MATE desktop.  First issue is that when I tried > to logout it didn't, even though it prompted for logout.  What's > The second issue is that now whenever I plug in an external USB drive > I

Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   yesterday afternoon I started having some strange things occurring on my F27 system with MATE desktop.  First issue is that when I tried to logout it didn't, even though it prompted for logout.  What's interesting is that the "System" pulldown menu was missing the "Shutdown" option