MATE, pronounced “Mah-Tay,” is a desktop environment for the X Window System initially released in 2011. It is based on the code for the GNOME 2 desktop environment, which is no longer actively maintained.

MATE is supported by the developers of Linux Mint and is used as the default desktop environment for several Linux distributions.

MATE features

  • A file manager named Caja, based on Nautilus.
  • A graphical text editor named Pluma, based on Gedit.
  • An image viewer named Eye of Mate, based on Eye of GNOME.
  • A document viewer named Atril, based on Evince.
  • An archive manager named Engrampa, based on File Roller.
  • A terminal emulator named MATE Terminal, based on GNOME Terminal.
  • A window manager named Marco, based on Metacity.
  • A menu editor named Mozo, based on Alacarte.
  • Support for the GTK+ 2 widget toolkit.
  • Undo/Redo and diff functionality for file operations.

Desktop, Linux, Operating System terms

  • MATE desktop environment website.