MATE tweaks via commandline

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nanZor
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MATE tweaks via commandline

Post#1 by nanZor » 19 May 2026, 06:12

Loving PorteuX 2.6 Mate !

Found some minor little tweaks I can do at the command-line around and thought I'd pass them here since the Mate-Tweak application is not present. Not a big deal. Changes are sticky, so I did not need to find and tweak a configuration file manually, nor put them in a startup. Easy.

Fine Sound adjustment via mouse scrollwheel. Normally it defaults to 5 but I like it a little finer between steps like 2 or 3.

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gsettings set org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.media-keys volume-step 3 
Animations: reducing animations. Might be good for slower hardware.

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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false
and
gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general reduced-resources true
With both of those set, I can see less animations mostly when minimizing and maximizing applications to and from the taskbar. In addition, moving actual windows around is in wireframe! Wow.

Ok, just fun. My hardware has no problems but these are some neat tweaks to consider.
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