Hi to the Ubuntu MATE community.
Iām a Linux Mint Xfce user, and I love Mint and I love Xfce, but I was blown away after almost a full day (!!! I just couldnāt stop) of running Ubuntu MATE 16.04 beta 1 live out of a USB. Iām really not a fan of MATE, and itās similarities to Xfce most of the times make me miss Xfce, but OH MY GOD, the job that has gone into this distro is amazing and it is slick, simple, flexible and fun, all at the same time!
After the day of using Ubuntu MATE one problem remains that makes it hard for me to switch. It might look like a small thing (OK, it IS a small thing) but itās important to me.
I love me some conky on my desktop, and I have a setup I take with me from place to place. āThe thing is, MATEās Show Desktop button seems to treat conky like a regular window and minimizes it. This is a problem Iāve encountered with MATE in the past and was another thing that kept me away, but I hoped it was solved. The only way I seemed to be able to solve the problem is by defining conkyās own_window_type as āoverrideā, which makes it invisible to the window manager or something. The problem is, āoverrideā makes conky unable to use the compositor and ruins my beautiful transparencies. (If youāre wondering, yes, Iāve tried this with marco, compton and compiz).
Iāve searched around and couldnāt find a solution to this problem so I thought perhaps here a remedy would be found.
Thank yāall, and to all of the developers: keep up the amazing work youāre doing.