Screenshots application startup MATE 16.04

[lah7]

@maro Yep, I stitched the screenshots together.

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@maro

Is there a similar way to view all default applications that are pre-installed in UM 16.04, not just the startup applications?

You could take a look at ubuntu-mate-desktop and ubuntu-mate-core's dependencies, which list the default applications.

apt-cache show ubuntu-mate-desktop | grep 'Depends'
apt-cache show ubuntu-mate-core | grep 'Depends'

The alternate is to list all the packages on a fresh install / live session:

Commands to view all installed packages

If you find yourself wanting to list all the packages installed on your system, there’s one of many handy commands to do that: List packages that are installed dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall List package, version, architecture and quick description. dpkg -l Alternate list similar to above apt --installed list Or filter to just show automatically installed packages (most likely dependencies) apt --installed list | grep 'automatic' Or filter them out: apt --installed l…

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@maro

Will there be a possibility to have all pre-installed applications included in the Software Boutique to allow easier configuration and safer removal?

That'll be new in 16.10, see the discussion from here:

Poll: Removing Pidgin and Hexchat from default install

As always, this has been an interesting discussion. I’ll cover a few points: The reason for suggesting removing Hexchat and Pidgin is more about their relevance, to most users, rather than iso image space. I personally never use Pidgin, nor do I use any of the instant messaging platforms is supports. I used to, years ago, but now G+, Twitter and Telegram have replaced those. I do however use Xchat all the time, but that is mostly because I’m a developer and just about all Open Source developmen…