Firstly try install a display manager. Since you mentioned Gnome, try installing gdm3
apt get install gdm3
Once installed, on the login screen you should be a drop down list which you can choose which desktop environment
The contents of my /etc/X11/default-display-manager file is
/usr/sbin/gdm3
Deleting the contents of the file will cause Debian to start up as text only login. So show the graphic display manager, either
- restore the contents of the file
- or login as root and run /usr/sbin/gdm3 (or whatever display manager you are running) to show the login window as shown above which you can select MATE as your desktop environment
Which packages did you install? The important package, mate-desktop, is still in the NEW queue.
– Jan Hudec – 2014-01-02T11:09:23.303I followed this guide and installed mate-desktop-environment-extra
– Tada Banri – 2014-01-02T11:35:29.783What login manager do you use? – barti_ddu – 2014-01-02T11:56:44.543
Actually I don't know, I think the default one that comes with Debian since I installed only Mate after formatting. – Tada Banri – 2014-01-02T12:04:48.307
Does Mate provide display manager actually? Anyway, it's better to use
alternatives
system than hand-editting files like that. To selectmate
as default window manager you'd executeupdate-alternatives --config x-window-manager
. Then you can juststartx
(as user). – barti_ddu – 2014-01-02T16:35:02.9771I did update-alternatives --config x-window-manager this is the output: There is only one alternative in link group x-window-manager (providing /usr/bin/x-window-manager): /usr/bin/metacity Nothing to configure. Mate is installed, no doubt about it, I used it when I installed it. startx runs Gnome, I tried to log-out to change to Mate in the login screen but it goes back to text mode. – Tada Banri – 2014-01-02T17:16:10.130
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Did you follow the instructions here? http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
– MariusMatutiae – 2014-01-02T19:12:05.043Yes, I followed that guide. – Tada Banri – 2014-01-02T19:36:49.347
Yes,
meatcity
is Gnome's wm; you could try to addmate
manually, but in general it looks like not configured/broken install. – barti_ddu – 2014-01-03T10:18:28.910Have you tried setting
mdm
in your/etc/X11/default-display-manager
? – YoMismo – 2014-06-11T10:57:37.947