MATE
Enable Community Repository
Enable Community Repository
Mate is available in the Community repository. Uncomment http://<url>/alpine/<version>/community in /etc/apk/repositories. For example:
Contents of /etc/apk/repositories
Install MATE Desktop
Mate is available in the community repository.
The next commands are used to install all avaliable video drivers and setup Xorg server:
videodrivers=$(apk search --quiet --exact xf86-video* | grep -v -- '\-doc$') setup-xorg-base $videodrivers
Now let us install a bunch of needed packages what includes all MATE Desktop packages avaliable in our Edge repository:
apk add desktop-file-utils gtk-engines consolekit gtk-murrine-engine caja caja-extensions marco dbus lxdm udev hicolor-icon-theme sudo mate_pkgs=$(apk search mate -q | grep -v '\-dev' | grep -v '\-lang' | grep -v '\-doc') apk add $mate_pkgs
In the next step we add some services to start up with the operating system:
rc-update add lxdm rc-update add dbus rc-update add udev
If you do not have a user other than root, it is time to do so. I am going to create a user called "monitor":
adduser -h /home/monitor -g "Monitor User" monitor
We will start D-Bus before other services in order to fix D-Bus configuration file (replace the hard coded 'system_bus_socket' path): Starting D-Bus:
rc-service dbus start
Fixing the D-Bus configuration file:
dbus_sock_path=$(find / -name system_bus_socket) dbus_sock_path=$(echo $dbus_sock_path | sed 's/\//\\&/g') sed -i 's/\/var\/run\/dbus\/system_bus_socket/'$dbus_sock_path'/' /etc/dbus-1/system.conf
apk del mate-screensaver ln -s /usr/etc/xdg/menus/ /etc/xdg/menus apk add mate-screensaver
Adding avaliables True Type Fonts:
ttfs=$(apk search -q ttf- | grep -v '\-doc') apk add $ttfs
If you are running your Alpine from RAM, save the changes:
lbu ci
And finally, let us start the lxdm service and log in to our MATE Desktop
rc-service udev start rc-service lxdm start
It just so happens that the preceding sequence of steps makes an apparently broken Xfce4 install work properly as well.
Misc
Disabling standby and screensaver
First of all check the actual configuration using xset:
localhost:~$ sudo apk add xset localhost:~$ xset q ... cut ... Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On localhost:~$
To disable those timers issue the command?
localhost:~$ xset dpms 0 0 0
If you wanna check the timers again:
localhost:~$ xset q ... cut ... Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On localhost:~$