MATE

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Install MATE Desktop

For while MATE is in testing/ repo. So we need to add it to the apk repository list before start installing MATE.

echo http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing >> /etc/apk/repositories

apk update

videodrivers=$(apk search --quiet --exact xf86-video* | grep -v -- '-doc$') setup-xorg-base $videodrivers apk add desktop-file-utils gtk-engines consolekit gtk-murrine-engine apk add caja marco dbus lxdm udev zenity libmatemixer hicolor-icon-theme

mate_pkgs=$(apk search mate -q | grep -v '\-dev' | grep -v '\-lang' | grep -v '\-doc') apk add $mate_pkgs

rc-update add lxdm rc-update add dbus rc-update add udev

adduser -h /home/monitor -g "Monitor User" monitor

rc-service dbus start

replacing the hardcoded 'system_bus_socket' path

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

ttfs=$(apk search -q ttf- | grep -v '\-doc') apk add $ttfs

ln -s /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.11.3 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 apk fix ln -s /usr/etc/xdg/menus/ /etc/xdg/menus

dbus-launch gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general theme 'Shiny'

ulimit -c 4096

lbu ci

rc-service udev start rc-service lxdm start