#Mate system monitor linux install
#Mate system monitor linux software
#Mate system monitor linux code

The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=,Īlias= settings in the section, and DefaultInstance= for template Again, this is less important to me than getting it to work in the first place.ĮDIT: the purpose of the exercise is to get the program to run if I plug in the pi and let it boot straight to the program scanning the air for radio(police etc) AND playing it through a speaker.ĮDIT2: sudo systemctl enable rvice This could also be handled by killing the process manually (but preferably automatically) once the desktop has launched. It is also acceptable to run the program on a 'Fake' X session however I need to prevent that from happening when a monitor is attached. I don't care if the desktop is running when there isn't a monitor, system resources are less important to me than getting the program to run.

I did not write the program and trying to tackle launching it outside of X is beyond my capabilities.Ĭurrently I have it set to start as a startup program inside of the MATE desktop and that is working fine when there is a monitor. It requires a graphical output in order to function.

#Mate system monitor linux software

I would like to configure my computer(a raspberry pi 4) so that it will boot into MATE with or without a monitor.įor background, this program is a radio scanner software written in java and I want the be able to have the program startup at boot. Sometimes I will attach a monitor and sometimes I will not. In case you're curious, here's all the installed packages for this installationīear in mind this is a i386 installation.I am trying to run a program on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 that needs to have a graphical output to function. Starting it would require startx, but I modified some config somewhere so the first console would automatically login and boot straight to this. The whole installed OS is 1.5 GB - although it could possibly be slimmed down further, I tried taking out the packages installed by wine-dep.

#Mate system monitor linux install

Since Mate is basically a fork of Gnome, would there be something available like the following command (subbing Gnome with Mate as an example)? sudo apt-get install xorg mate-core mate-media mate-system-monitor mate-applets mate-system-tools mate-utils mate-app-install sysv-rc-conf gdmĪlso, in the link, it explains to disable gdm for runlevels 2 & 3 by invoking sudo sysv-rc-confĬould this also work for Mate if I don’t want it to automatically launch at boot? When you need the desktop, you just invoke the command - startx In this link - it walks you through to install a very minimal Gnome install and then set it so that it doesn’t automatically load the desktop at startup. The ability to install things like Ubuntu Tweak and gparted is all I really need. So no ability at this point to just perform a sudo apt-get install command to install a minimal install of Mate? (no need for LibreOffice, ThunderBird, Rhythmbox, etc).

That oughta keep you busy for a while, i remember when i first started using linux, i kept getting told to search with google but it took me a while to figure out what to search for, since the youngsters had been busy making up new terms while i was off doing work with the old ones, LOL. Ubuntu-MATE is ubuntu-derived and ubuntu is debian-derived so jessie (i think it’s still in LTS) is like the upstream of um-16.04, or maybe i have my numbers crossed.Īh, here is some connecting information, systemd does everything in “units” apparently, What i found is this, which might be just what you want to know, So let’s see what i can find with “linux systemd lightdm” (because lightdm is the desktop manager in use). So knowing that Ubuntu-MATE runs systemd, all you have to do is grep around a little bit for whatever naming convention they used, which they should at least have hinted at in the doc. And a couple clues about what to look for, which not always obvious. Google is your friend… and i’m not saying that as a rebuke, i’m saying that this stuff is so spread out that you need some kind of map to find most anything.

#Mate system monitor linux code

Finding the code that starts the desktop is probably going to lead straight to systemd, which i think stuffs all its parameterizing into a single directory, or something, anyway no matter how much i gripe about systemd they did write some doc for it.