Did I lose “MATE Search Tool” upon upgrading to 17.3, or has it been removed as an available app?
Assuming it's discontinued, what other file system search utilities do you folks use?
Thanks all
MATE desktop tools are part of the MATE desktop environment and not included by default in Zorin OS.
Likely, this was included with something you had manually installed.
It is commonly included in the mate-utils package.
Since this is available in the Universe Repository, you can reinstall it
sudo apt install mate-utils
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that I did this, and terminal response is that the utils are already installed.
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mate-utils is already the newest version (1.26.0-0ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
However, when I search "mate" into the super key menu or the "show applications" screen, the only software that shows is the EYE OF MATE IMAGE VIEWER.
You might launch Main Menu from the app menu and check if the Mate packages you want are still checkmarked.
Not there. Again, in the main Zorin super key menu or the "show applications" screen, the only MATE program is image viewer.
In /usr/share/applications you will find the .desktop files for all installed applications that appear in the App menu.
Please open these .desktop files and check if they say,
OnlyShowIn=MATE;
If they do, you can elevate to Root, launch the file manager as root, open those files in text editor and add gnome or xfce to that line. For example:
OnlyShowIn=MATE;GNOME;XFCE;
Be sure to save the file each time you modify it.
Once done, reboot and test.
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Thank you so much.
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