On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:45 PM Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've done my feeble best to compile Mate for CentOS 8; my
> result is not completely broken, but not ready for use.
> Some of the graphics fails.  "Mate8" seems to leak memory.

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:08:34PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> There is a thread on the CentOS mailing list about Mate for el8 that you
> may want to take a look:
> 
> lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-May/350284.html

Thanks for that;  about six messages down that thread is
a pointer to a webpage discussing compiled packages:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__copr.fedoracloud.org_coprs_stenstorp_MATE&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=Q6LCVHs6caad7nOhlIGsnO-ZZUhyem88W6GHqfhenh8&s=7XyJM3wNZhcVzu5ozYZvc9sKtl4zp0lRlr7HMXiXXP8&e= 

I will copy my borked home compilations to backups, then
install that version of MATE.  Many of us are installing
MATE; I probably made my clumsy attempts prematurely.

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To others who suggest alternate ways to use linux ... thanks,
but I'm an old dog, and a gnome2 user since it was a puppy.
MATE comes closest.  

My "new trick" schedule is overloaded with math and physics
skills that I hope to learn soon, skills that would have
been much easier to learn 50 years ago.

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Finding the gnome3 text rendering flaw will be more difficult. 
That flaw is why my subnotebooks still run SL6.


Keith

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