My MATE Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial works very well, except that all the menu item names are invisible. At the moment I am writing this help request whilst logged into the MATE xenial. Menus are hidden from me, can not read them.
Strange, as otherwise system works A OK. To escape the “fading menu item names”, I have installed in another partition the linuxmint 18 MATE, so I am not in dire distress.
My computer is a HP-ProDesk-400-G2-SFF. I bought it at an alleged bargain price as an ex-gov equipment, shrunk the MSWindows partition to a “sensible size” and created several new ext4 partitons:
Swap partiontion
Linux data partition ("/dat") - for use by all linuxes on my pc
MATE xenial partition (about 50 GiB) - that is where I am writing from now.
“Future” linux OS partition, also of about 50 GiB size That’s where I installed the linuxmint18-MATE
I like to restore the xenial MATE to a usable state, as I miss the items that are nicely setup, knowledge-able user base; Chromium web browser that I came to like and rely on.
OldAl
ak@HP400:~$ inxi -b
System: Host: HP400 Kernel: 4.4.0-28-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: MATE 1.12.1 Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProDesk 400 G2 SFF
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 18E9
Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: L02 v02.39 date: 12/11/2014
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-4160 (-HT-MCP-) speed: 3600 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: Intel 4th Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (9.5% used)
Info: Processes: 207 Uptime: 46 min Memory: 898.2/3874.9MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35