bleeding-edge MATE

[David Griffith <dave@661.org>]

I've installed MATE 1.18 into /usr/local/ and added 
/usr/local/share/xsessions to the sessions-director path in 
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.  At the Lightdm login screen, I can now select 
MATE for my desktop environment, but on logging in, MATE won't start. 
What's wrong?  I don't see anything relevant in /var/log about this.

I can start mate-session in .xinitrc and use startx, but then MATE can't 
find any themes... and I really would rather use Lightdm.

Is anyone here tinkering with bleeding-edge MATE?  How are you going about 
it?

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David Griffith
dave@661.org

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