Under the hood
Every part of MATE Wayland Desktop, grouped by the project that makes it.
A Linux distribution is assembled from the work of many projects. This page lists what is in the current development build and where each part comes from.
MATE Desktop 1.29
The desktop itself: panels, menus, file manager and settings. MATE is the continuation of GNOME 2.
mate-panel 1.29.2Panels, menus and applets
Caja 1.29.1File manager and desktop icons
mate-desktop 1.29.1Core desktop library
mate-control-center 1.29.1Settings
mate-settings-daemon 1.29.1Applies your settings
mate-media 1.29.0Volume control
labwc 0.9
The Wayland compositor. It draws windows and handles input. labwc is based on wlroots and is also used by Xfce and LXQt.
labwc 0.9Wayland compositor
XWaylandRuns applications that are not yet Wayland-native
Wayland tools
Small programs that do jobs the X11 versions cannot do on Wayland.
gtklockScreen lock
grimScreenshots
wdisplaysDisplay configuration- kanshiApplies saved display layouts
MentaTheme
Noto SansFont
YaruIcons
System
Logging in, installing and running in a virtual machine.
LightDMLogin screen
CalamaresInstaller, with optional full-disk encryption (LUKS2)
Hybrid ISOOne image for USB or DVD, on BIOS and UEFI machines
VirtualBox guest supportIncluded for use in virtual machines
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS packagesThe base system
Linux kernel 7.0Kernel- amd6464-bit x86 architecture
Minimal by design
The image contains the desktop and what it needs, and not much more.
- Packages
- About 1,075
- ISO size
- About 1.8 GB
- GNOME Shell
- Not included
- snap
- Not included
How it is built
- Built from Ubuntu's packages plus newer upstream MATE releases.
- The full build is reproducible with one command from the source repository.
- Improvements to MATE components are sent upstream to the MATE project.
In development. There is no public release yet. Release status