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Make it easier to change time format to 12H with a GUI.
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Make it easier to enable Adaptive Sync without resorting to edit xorg conf files, a button in the 'monitor preferences' would be convenient. (albeit maybe add a warning that it's still under development).
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Vulkan/OpenGL compositor
We need really a way to change keyboard layout in lightdm login UI, because if a user uses two keyboard layout e.g : french and arabic with french as default keyboard layout, and then he sets his user password using the arabic layout, then if he logs out he will never be able to login to his account ! because he can't use (change to) arabic layout at login UI and it's by default set to french layout only !
See my problem here https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/impossible-to-change-keyboard-layout-on-lightdm-at-login
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I am using Ubuntu Mate 18.04
- When I open a folder with a lot of files in Caja, it takes about 10 seconds for the files to appear. It seems Caja waits until all the thumbnails are loaded before showing the files. The files should be shown with a default icon if thumbnails haven't been loaded.
- Some animations when opening, closing, minimizing and maximizing windows would be nice.
- When two users are logged in at the same time, one of the users can't set the monitor's native window resolution. Here is a screenshot of the monitor settings app when logged in as the second user:
8 posts were split to a new topic: Ubuntu MATE should narrow customisation options
I think this would be a great feature for new users (like me!). In the software boutique, for every app listed have an option to install the app from the repo, as a snap or as a flatpak (whichever versions are available). Also a short explanation of the pros & cons of each option (disk space, confinement, update process, etc). I'm not a developer, so I'm not sure how much work this would entail - but if you can't include it in 20.04 LTS- then 22.04 LTS is fine too 
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Please check usb/ sd card copying.
Sometimes it works perfectly (all kind of files), mostly it takes approximately forever (data files and mp3) and even more often (when copying mp3) the result are corrupted mp3 files. And so far it is not reproducible for me, but rather a gamble and no solution provided on the Internet/community has worked so far.
Since the Ver. 18.04.03 it has become a bit better but still not perfect.
That's all. Otherwise just a perfect OS for me.
Cheers
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This oddly specific window manager issue I reported here.
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More configuration for the brisk menu (I'm aware that it's maintained by Solus but it would still help)
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Maybe taking a look at a new theme? I like the green coloring but I am not the biggest fan of the ambiance and radiance themes in general. The icons are pretty good though!
My issue with writing to SD Cards is that Caja shows the process completed prior to completion. I need to watch the lights on the stick to ensure completion. Sometimes there is as much as several minutes of copying after Caja indicated the copy process was completed.
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It's almost always the same for me and I also think, the copy process takes longer than normally should.
I notice this as well, although I remember this issue with pretty much every file manager... I haven't used anything other than Caja in a few years, so I don't know if it has been fixed elsewhere, but the USB Drive/ SD Card writing is bad...
On the other hand, Ubuntu-Mate does a great job telling you that the card is still being written to if you tell it to eject the card while it's "writing in the background".
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Yes, I think it is a broader linux thing as opposed to a specifically Caja thing
Hi, I'm new to Ubuntu MATE and to this forum. I would like to share my thoughts on possible improvements with respect to the next update(s).
First let me explain my background: I started with Linux Mint on a rather low-end Laptop about one year before Ubuntu said goodbye to Gnome 2. Due to a failed system update I decided to stop that adventure, and I returned to Win 7 which since then continued to be my productive system. One year ago it was superseded by a Win 10 Laptop. But my interest in linux was caught. So I stood in touch since my EeePC Netbook needed a successor for Win XP. Over the years, I have tried several variations of Puppy and finally settled down on Lubuntu. On my former laptop, I first installed Elementary 5.0 (for my son), followed by Ubuntu MATE 19.10 (for myself). Now my wife - who has never used an OS without a Microsoft label and is facing the farewell of Win 7 - is willing to give linux a try on her aged but healthy laptop.
Sorry for that lengthy intro. So here are some requests of someone who is used to mainly work with Windows:
"Top Three Bugs":
- Activate Low Power notification by default.
- In vertical panels, change the orientation of the clock in its own applet and in Indicator Applet Complete.
- Unsure if it also affects the English version, but the German version uses 3 different expressions for Control Center ("Kontrollzentrum"). In Advanced MATE Menu it's called "Steuerzentrum" (control center as well?) and the shutoff button in Indicator Applet Complete uses "Systemeinstellungen" (system preferences?).
More items:
- Generally speaking, provide more options to undo and/or save changes in applets. For instance, there seems to be no (easy) way to remove a blank space in Advanced MATE Menu or to restore the App Indicator once it was removed from Indicator Applet Complete.
- Join MATE Tweaks and Appearance in a single application.
- Integrate a modern icon and mouse cursor theme.
- Make login window on lock screen more elegant.
- Favorites in Advanced MATE Menu : offer options to remove their app titles, to rearrange them by drag-and-drop, and to group them.
- The "Readmont" layout in MATE Tweaks is a replication of Win XP. Former Win 7 and Win 10 users will be more familiar with MATE dock applet, not to a combination of the app launcher and windows applets.
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and I do not know if in the latest versions of MATE has been fixed, since the change from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 I miss something, change the color of all folders in the system,
I can only change color folders from 1 to 1, I'd like to change them all.
Greetings...
This feature has sadly been removed.
You can use papirus-folders if you like the papirus icon theme and Oomox if you want your own custom color at the moment.
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@Josele13 You may want to check out this community solution that I hope may end up in a future release: Colour variants of Ambiant/Radiant-MATE themes - #16 by lah7
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32bit dependancies required to install printers
I do not use Wine.
I do not play computer games.
... but I do use printers, and scanners.
How do we, the .deb based branch of the GNU/Linux family go about retaining printer-viability in face of the moves (as far as I know Ubuntu and Fedora {.rpm} intend to do this) to drop "non-required" 32bit libraries?
If we do not get ahead of this now good, usable, hardware may well become scrap (years before they wear out). 
This may not already be a "bug", but is a "bug-in-the-making"...
I have an old canon laser printer that I run inside an XP VM. It only take a few seconds to fire up the vm. I place the documents I want to print in a network folder on the host so the VM can see it to print.
Presumably, one could do the same with an old version of Ubuntu that previously worked with a given printer
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I would think seahorse could do a better job protecting the list of passwords. It just seems to easy to me to open one app without any challenges and get a list of all of your saved passwords. I am sure there are good reasons for this that I don't understand, but it would be nice if saved passwords were more difficult to retrieve in 20.04.