MATE 1.12.1 and FreeBSD 10.3

One place to put all little tweaks to make it work better with FreeBSD.

• Rhythmbox icon not showing in tray
  Apparently they removed Tray Icon plugin for some reason. After downloading it can be unpacked to some subdir (for example “tray”) of .local/rhythmbox/plugins (or /usr/local/share/rhythmbox/plugins to make it system-wide). Enable plugin from rhythmbox after this.
• Volume keys do not work
  Rebuild and reinstall /usr/ports/sysutils/mate-settings-daemon from ports (seems there was something broken in package build so it didn’t properly detect that libmatemixer was present)
• Enable compiz-fusion
  You might wish to install dconf-editor to do it from gui – change org.mate.session.required-components.windowmanager to compizmanager. Don’t forget in compiz settings to enable:
  • zoom desktop
  • desktop cube
  • rotate cube
  • show desktop
  • minimize effect
  • window decoration
  • wobbly windows
  • window previews
  • all image loading
  • resize info
  • workarounds (
  • application switcher
  • move window
  • place windows
  • resize window

• Firefox plugins
  Super Start (no matter about platform) – to have sane new tab page
  Dark steel blue theme
• Thunderbird plugins
  • Classic TB2 look
  • Lightning calendar
  • Manually sort folders
  • To prevent accidental sorting by clicking pane header