This tutorial will help you change mouse cursor size on any computer with MATE desktop environment by the example Trisquel GNU/Linux. It is useful for many cases including among them teaching purpose on online streaming or live presentation using projector device and to help older people or those with vision issues.

1. Open MATE Control Center.

2. Open Appearance under Look And Feel section. 

3. Appearance Preferences window will show. 

4. Current theme will be shown as the selected one. On Trisquel, its name is Trisquel.

5. Click Customize > Customize Theme window will show. 

6. On this window, open Pointer tab.

7. Under Pointer tab, it will show several cursor theme choices and one is selected. On Trisquel, it is MATE.

8. Adjust the size of pointer by sliding the slider button at the bottom. To right means larger, to left means smaller. 

9. Cursor size adjusted.

10. Close all preferences windows. Done. 

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This simple tutorial explains how to search files and folders on Linux Mint. Mint is a very popular and easy to use computer operating system from GNU/Linux family based on Ubuntu Desktop. This covers its three editions namely Mint Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE so pick the one suitable to yours. Let's search!

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Here's quick notes about enabling Windows key for start menu on two different systems: Xubuntu (XFCE) and Trisquel (MATE). This key is located between your Ctrl and Alt keys, and beside that, also called Super or Meta key on GNU/Linux. However, you can run these on other GNU/Linux distros which use respective desktop environments. Happy working!

Xubuntu (XFCE Desktop)

• Go to System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
• Choose xfce4-popup-whiskermenu.
• Double-click it.
• Press Win key (Super key).
• Close.
• Go ahead.

• Ubuntu Studio
• Mint XFCE 
• MX
• Debian Live XFCE
• Fedora Spin XFCE
• openSUSE Tumbleweed XFCE

Trisquel (MATE Desktop)

• Go to MATE Tweak > Interface.
• Save current layout.
• Change it to Redmond layout.
• Enable advanced menu.
• Close.
• Go ahead.

• Ubuntu MATE
• Mint MATE
• Debian Live MATE
• Fedora Spin MATE
• Manjaro MATE

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After PCManFM, we introduce here basic Caja File Manager usage. Caja is a descendant from the old Nautilus from GNOME 2.x era. You will find Caja File Manager in Ubuntu MATE, Linux Mint MATE, or any other distribution using MATE as its desktop environment.  It keeps many features from the past, such as emblems and split views. We use Caja 1.8.2 from Ubuntu MATE 14.04 here. We hope this will help new users. Enjoy.

After our previous article about MATE usage guide, now we come with MATE customization guide. MATE is a descendant of GNOME version 2.x. MATE has what GNOME 2 has. MATE is a simple, widely customizable, yet user friendly desktop environment. If you want a getting started article to customize your MATE, this article is for you. It will cover wallpaper, theme installation, panel, applet, icons, and some more stuffs for your living GNOME 2, MATE. This article is based from MATE 1.8.2 on Ubuntu 15.04. This is our second article (after GNOME one) in desktop customization series.

MATE is a new desktop environment developed as GNOME 2 successor. MATE is a popular desktop now because of Linux Mint bundling and followed by Ubuntu MATE appearances. This article will guide you around the basic usage of MATE desktop. I hope you can apply this guide into your daily life with MATE desktop. You won't learn any technical or historical side of MATE. I write this article based on MATE 1.8.2 and Ubuntu MATE 15.04.

Good news for MATE Desktop Environment fans. MATE 1.4 has been released and ready to install on Ubuntu. In this release, MATE comes with numerous bug fixes, caja-dropbox package so you can integrate Dropbox in Caja file manager easily, added new themes, and also file sharing now available via bluetooth.

MATE desktop environment is a fork of GNOME2 which brings an intuitive and attractive desktop environment to Linux users using traditional metaphors. The newest version, MATE 1.2 has been released. This release is more stable than ever and it includes support for many more applications, applets, and backends.