Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrating from gnome to mate

[dguthrie]

Install mate-desktop-environment with the --no-install-recommends option to  
get the bare minimum. It will install a duplicate terminal (mate-terminal)  
and File Manager (Caja), and they show up in GNOME Shell. However in MATE  
itself gnome-terminal does not show up and you can just use the normal task  
manager (gnome-system-monitor). I resent the duplicates too, but MATE has  
fewer dependencies than GNOME Shell (even package gnome-core installs all  
sorts of unwanted applications: e.g. evolution mail, gnome-contacts).
If you will actually get rid of GNOME Shell then this should not be too  
serious.