Installed Ubuntu Mate alongside Unity, some questions

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Hi everyone,

I’m using HugeGreenBug’s Ubuntu 15.05 for the Acer c720, and since he doesn’t seem to have the time right now to do a spin featuring a non-Unity desktop I’ve done my best to install the Ubuntu Mate desktop from repo. So far it’s worked pretty well but there’s just a few small problems that are keeping it from perfection. (Also fwiw I’m using the mate dev ppa to get the Ubuntu indicators).

  1. Only some popups work. Popup notifications for Rythmbox work but not my-weather-indicator or cb-fortune.

  2. Whenever I boot up the indicators seem to be scrambled up in a different order each time.

  3. I’d like to use the “use background if available” setting on the greeter settings editor but it seems to take the background from the Unity desktop.

  4. I was going to uninstall pidgin and thunderbird but apt seems to want to remove basically the entire mate desktop if I do so.

and 5. I’d like to setup some hotkeys and would like to know where to get stated with that.

thanks for any help!!