Specific applications

• NetworkManager: /usr/bin/mate-network-admin
• Calculator: mate-calc
• Eye of Gnome is Eye of Mate: eom
• Nautilus: caja --no-desktop --browser
• Terminal: mate-terminal
• Screensaver: mate-screensaver-preferences
• Appearance: mate-appearance-properties

MDM

Mint does not use GDM, but MDM. To install,

sudo apt-get install mdm mint-mdm-themes dmdc-mdm-html5-themes

To set up, run

sudo mdmsetup

To test a given theme, there is an emulator:

mdm-theme-emulator

and the themes are located in /usr/shared/mdm/html-themes. To get the tree of processes, use pstree:

 ├─mdm───mdm─┬─Xorg───2*[{Xorg}]
     │           └─fvwm2─┬─FvwmAnimate
     │                   ├─FvwmButtons
     │                   ├─FvwmEvent
     │                   ├─FvwmPager
     │                   ├─gpg-agent
     │                   ├─mate-screensave───3*[{mate-screensave}]
     │                   ├─ssh-agent
     │                   ├─stalonetray
     │                   ├─xeyes
     │                   └─xterm───bash

Mate is launched as the X session manager: in /etc/alternatives:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 oct.  11 16:01 x-session-manager -> /usr/bin/mate-session

If MDM is lost (e.g after a bad upgrade), try checking these:

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

What version am I running?

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description:    Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
Release:        17.1
Codename:       rebecca

To know what this corresponds to for Ubuntu:

lsb_release -a -u
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty