Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME mate-mouse-properties – configure MATE mouse preferences SYNOPSIS mate-mouse-properties [–get-legacy] DESCRIPTION This executable is part of the package ‘mate-control-center’: The MATE Control Center. The MATE mouse preference tool enables you to configure your mouse for right-hand or left-hand use. It is also used to specify the speed and sensitivity of mouse movement and mouse button…
NAME mate-maximus – force all windows to be full-screen SYNOPSIS mate-maximus DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly maximus. mate-maximus is an X program for the MATE Desktop Environment that forces all windows to be full-screen. This tool is shipped with the MATE netbook utilities. OPTIONS mate-maximus takes no command line arguments. AUTHOR This man page…
NAME mate-keyboard-properties – manage keyboard behaviour in MATE SYNOPSIS mate-keyboard-properties [OPTIONS…] DESCRIPTION This executable is part of the package ‘mate-control-center’: The MATE Control Center. Keyboard Preferences manages all settings related to the keyboard in a MATE environment. This includes key repeat delay, cursor blinking, layouts and layout options. You can also configure a typing break…
NAME mate-keybinding-properties – configure MATE keybindings SYNOPSIS mate-keybinding-properties [OPTIONS…] DESCRIPTION This executable is part of the package ‘mate-control-center’: The MATE Control Center. The MATE keybindings preference tool enables you to display the default keyboard shortcuts and customize them to your requirements. You can also create hot keys. Hot keys are keyboard shortcuts that start applications…
NAME mate-invest-chart — tool to set CPU frequency SYNOPSIS mate-invest-chart DESCRIPTION The mate-invest-chart is a MATE panel applet that downloads current quotes for stocks, stock indices, currencies and precious metals. Quotes are downloaded from Yahoo! Finance and are displayed in a drop-down list. OPTIONS Invest provides the following features: • Retrieve quotes for any stock,…
NAME mate-geyes-applet – gEyes Applet for the MATE panel. SYNOPSIS mate-geyes-applet [ –activate-goad-server [=GOAD_ID] ] DESCRIPTION mate-geyes-applet is a pair of eyes which follow your mouse pointer around the screen. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Applets->Amusements->gEyes. OPTIONS –activate-goad-server (Internal use only) GOAD server ID to activate. GOAD_ID…
NAME mate-font-viewer – preview fonts SYNOPSIS mate-font-viewer [OPTIONS…] <filename> DESCRIPTION This executable is part of the package ‘mate-control-center’: The MATE Control Center. Use mate-font-viewer , the MATE Font Viewer, to preview fonts and display information about a specified font. You can use the Font Viewer to display the name, style, type, size, ver- sion, and copyright…
NAME mate-drivemount-applet – Drive Mount Applet for the MATE panel. SYNOPSIS mate-drivemount-applet [ –activate-goad-server [=GOAD_ID] ] DESCRIPTION mate-drivemount-applet allows you to quickly and easily mount and unmount various types of drives and file systems on your computer. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Applets->Utility->Drive Mount. OPTIONS –activate-goad-server (Internal…
NAME mate-doc-common – include the standard user documentation build files SYNOPSIS mate-doc-common DESCRIPTION This script is used by mate-autogen to include the standard user documentation build files in a MATE package. To automatically include the standard user documentation build files (omf.make and xmldocs.make) in you package, set USE_COMMON_DOC_BUILD=yes in autogen.sh before calling the macros/autogen.sh script….
NAME mate-display-properties – customize MATE display behavor SYNOPSIS mate-display-properties [OPTIONS…] DESCRIPTION This executable is part of the package ‘mate-control-center’: The MATE Control Center. The MATE display preference tool enables you to customize the screen resolution and refresh rate for your desktop. OPTIONS This program accepts the standard MATE and GTK options. AUTHORS This manual page…
NAME mate-display-properties-install-systemwide – customize MATE display behavor SYNOPSIS mate-display-properties-install-systemwide <SOURCE_FILE> <DEST_NAME> DESCRIPTION This executable is part of the package ‘mate-control-center’: The MATE Control Center. This command line tool installs a RANDR profile for multi-monitor setups into a systemwide location. The resulting profile will get used when the RANDR plug-in gets run in mate-settings-daemon. <SOURCE_FILE> a…
NAME Baobab – A graphical tool to analyse disk usage SYNOPSIS baobab [directory] DESCRIPTION baobab is able to scan either specific folders or the whole filesystem (local and remote), in order to give the user a graphical tree representation including each directory size or percentage in the branch. It also auto-detects in real-time any change…
NAME mate-dictionary – Look up words on dictionaries SYNOPSIS mate-dictionary mate-dictionary [options] or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu. DESCRIPTION MATE Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source. For full documentation see the MATE Dictionary online help. OPTIONS –look-up word Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined…
NAME mate-desktop-item-edit – A small tool to edit .desktop files. SYNOPSIS mate-desktop-item-edit [OPTIONS] [FILE] DESCRIPTION Distributed with mate-panel, mate-desktop-item-edit allows you to edit .desktop files. OPTIONS –create-new Create a new file in the given directory. –display=DISPLAY X display to use. -?, -h, –help Print standard command line options. –help-all Print all command line options. This…
NAME mate-default-applications-properties — is a control center applet. SYNOPSIS mate-default-applications-properties [OPTIONS]… DESCRIPTION MATE Default Applications Properties is a control center applet to edit default applications. It allows one to set default file manager, email client, web browser, etc. OPTIONS -p, –show-page=PAGE Specify the name of the page to show (internet|multimedia|system|a11y) AUTHOR This manual page was…
NAME mate-cpufreq-selector – A generic command line tool to change the cpu frequency. SYNOPSIS mate-cpufreq-selector [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION This tool is a part of the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor Applet for the MATE Panel. It can be called from the command line when installed. mate-cpufreq-selector is used to adjust the CPU Frequency settings if the system…
NAME mate-control-center – Configure MATE settings SYNOPSIS mate-control-center [OPTION…] DESCRIPTION mate-control-center is a graphical user interface to configure various aspects of MATE. When run without arguments, the shell displays the control center overview, which shows all available configuration panels. The overview allows one to open individual panels by clicking on them. It also has a…
NAME mate-color-select – Select a color from a palette or from screen SYNOPSIS mate-color-select [<gtk-options>] DESCRIPTION The mate-color-select program is a tool to pick a color from a color palette or from screen. It is not meant to be used on its own, but as a MATE Desktop helper application. OPTIONS The mate-color-select tool supports…
NAME mate-charpick-applet – Character Picker Applet for the MATE panel. SYNOPSIS mate-charpick-applet [ –activate-goad-server [=GOAD_ID] ] DESCRIPTION mate-charpick-applet allows you to easily write many characters which are not available on standard keyboards such as accented characters, certain mathematical symbols and punctuation, and some other special symbols. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on…
NAME mate-calc – (mate-calculator) – The MATE Desktop Environment Calculator SYNOPSIS mate-calc [OPTIONS…] [FILES…] DESCRIPTION mate-calc is the official calculator for the MATE Desktop Environment. It has been designed to be used with either the mouse or the keyboard. It is visually similar to a lot of hand-held calculators. This manual page briefly documents the…