Anybody here using openSUSE Leap with Mate 1.10 and the mate-menu (the fancy menu with the search feature, forked from Linux Mint’s Mint Menu)? I’ve tried everything and for the life of me I can’t get it to work. When I add it to the Mate panel, only a single pixel dot appears on the panel, and it’s not clickable. When I run it from a terminal, it only throws a non-fatal error. I tried changing the mate-menu text and icon in dconf, but it doesn’t help. I also filed a bug report, but no reply for over a week.
Since I’m running a fairly minimal system with hand-chosen package selection, I suspect that I’m missing a package that is not listed as a requirement for mate-menu that actually should be a hard requirement. I’m pretty sure mate-menu should be working for openSUSE Leap, because the new openSUSE L-i-f-e 42.1 release has screenshots of it.
I installed Li-f-e 42.1 for testing. And, indeed, the Mate menu is working there.
You might search for “mate” in Yast software management, and install anything that looks relevant. There’s a lot installed in Li-f-e 42.1 that is found by such a search, but is not in the standard MATE pattern.
Yes, I do have mate-menu (and mate-menus) installed, and I tried both mate-menus-branding-openSUSE and mate-menus-branding-upstream. I’ll guess I’ll have to try nrickert’s suggestion of trying uninstalled packages that appear to have some relevance.
