Synapse

No support for MATE desktop environment

Bug #1152423 reported by Kristian Picon on 2013-03-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1022753: does not find Terminal when running on Linux Mint 13 MATE. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Synapse	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 that uses a different name to avoid conflicts with newer versions of the same applications. By default, current versions of Synapse do not recognize .desktop files from it. Fixing this is as easy as adding an environment type called MATE. Adding the line `case "MATE": result |= EnvironmentType.GNOME; break;` to desktop-file-service.vala and recompiling makes it work.

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harpreet bhatia (bluepicaso) wrote on 2013-10-10:

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For me the synapse works but the its appearance is all gone
Please get it solved.
would be really nice.

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Kristian Picon (kristianpicon) wrote on 2013-10-10:

@bluepicaso
This bug is about the fact that Synapse does not recognize MATE applications (i.e. the appearance properties). Your problem is that you don't have compositing enabled.

See here:
http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.com/2012/05/solved-docky-issue-in-mintubuntu-how-to.html