Keyboard Calculator Button Fails To Open Galculator

[Buford T. Justice]

Whenever I try to open the Ubuntu MATE calculator (galculator) by pressing the calculator button on my keyboard, gcalculator fails to open and I get an error popup saying...

Couldn't execute command: gcalctool
Verify that this is a valid command.

I first noticed this issue in UM Beta 1 and it is still present.

[bedfojo (bedfojo)]

This is fixed in Git, in mate-settings-daemon 1.9.2. See the commit: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-settings-daemon/commit/163f01a8b527c1ed801f68681fc7d82a54d42b1c

The cause is that MATE version 1.10 will use galculator and neither mate-calc nor gcalctool which are what the old version of mate-settings-daemon looks for.

Ubuntu-MATE has already chosen to use galculator but its mate-settings-daemon has not yet updated (still on 1.8.1).

[Buford T. Justice (btjustice)]

I am glad to here this will be fixed by default soon. I do use the computer calculator a lot. Thanks!

[Buford T. Justice (btjustice)]

*hear

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Fix in the MATE for Trusty PPA.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Fix in the PPA for Utopic.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

You'll need to:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-mate-core ubuntu-mate-desktop