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. ---- 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. ----- Finding the gnome3 text rendering flaw will be more difficult. That flaw is why my subnotebooks still run SL6. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [log in to unmask]