Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
I have a Macbook Pro which I successfully installed Ubuntu 14.04 then I used the "Trisquelize" script to migrate that laptop to Trisquel 7. I then fully updated my system and did the graphical "update-manger -d" upgrade.
My issue is the MATE interface is missing several things. One of them being the Close and Minimize buttons on every window. There are other issues but lets just start with that.
Any idea what may need fixing?
Here is a screenshot of my desktop:
| Attachment | Size |
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| Screenshot at 2018-04-20 07:46:43.png | 1.49 MB |
It looks like there is no window manager running. Apparently the default window manager for MATE is called marco, check to see if it is running. If it's not running, try launching it from the terminal.
In MATE Terminal, I typed "marco" and it immediately made the missing buttons appear. However, there were two errors:
Gtk Message: failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk Message: failed to load module "topmenu-gtk-module"
I also want to mention that in my screenshot the spacing and sizing of all icons on the toolbar seems off as well.
How do you suggest I fix these issues?
From what I'm seeing the overlay-scrollbar and topmenu-gtk-module are a problem of their own. I'm having the same issue, broken topmenu-gtk-module may explain why that component of unity is not working in this release. You can ignore those errors, but it seems that scrollbars will not overlay as they should, and the panel application menu, will not function.
> I also want to mention that in my screenshot the spacing and sizing of all icons on the toolbar seems off as well.
Do you mean on the bottom panel, notification tray area?
Yes. Where the battery indicator, date, applications icon, etc. are.
I'm not using Unity at the moment. I'm using the MATE Desktop that Trisquel 8 comes with. Are you saying that Unity is interfering somehow?
I wonder if I should just remove the Unity DE? Unity is nice and all but its fate is sealed unfortunately.
Another issue i'm having is when I start the MATE Desktop Environment after logging in, I see the following popup:
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were using unity. I mean that I am trying to use unity on Trisquel and am encountering the same errors. Those GTK plugin errors are not a problem specific to the MATE desktop environment or specific to upgrade installs. The icon size issue is a problem with the default icon theme I think, try changing it to something else, https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24141 this bug report was filed. As for the error popup, I don't know what that broken applet does? If you choose delete, does the error ever return?
When I delete the applet, the error is gone. I am just trying to figure how how to solve the "marco" issue most of all. I guess i'll look for a way to reinstall that so it stays up and functioning. Thanks for filing the bug.
I just solved my issue by doing the following steps:
'''
$ sudo apt-get purge unity*
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install trisquel
$ sudo apt-get install mate-dock-applet
$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extra
'''
Then using MATE Tweak tool solves the icon appearance stuff I didn't like.
Glad to hear that you resolved things!