mate-control-center(1)

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💖 mate-control-center — the manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, so this is the mate-control-center(1) page, from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's giving main character energy. it lives in section 1, it configures your whole MATE vibe. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

mate-control-center — Configure MATE settings 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mate-control-center [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so mate-control-center is a graphical user interface to configure various aspects of MATE. like, a whole GUI for your settings. iconic behaviour, no cap.

when you run it with no arguments, the shell displays the control center overview, which shows all available configuration panels 🌈. the overview lets you open individual panels by clicking on them (yes, just click, it's that easy, we love a low-effort queen 👑). it also has a search entry to find panels by searching keywords, so you don't have to scroll around like a lost little butterfly 🦋. type a word, find your panel, periodt.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -?, --help — prints the application's help options and then dips out (exits). very "here's the info, bye bestie" 😌
  • --help-gtk — prints the GTK help options and exits. different help, same dramatic exit.
  • --help-all — prints application AND GTK help options, then exits. the full combo meal 🍓
  • --hide — hide on start. super useful for preloading the shell, so it's already warm and ready when you need it. sneaky but smart 🙈
  • --display=DISPLAY — the X display to use. tell it where to show up 💖
ngl, this program additionally accepts the standard MATE and GTK options too — the ones you can list with --help-gtk. so there's more where that came from, iykyk ✨

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

on success, 0 is returned. otherwise you get a non-zero failure code 😭. that's the whole story.

💜 AUTHORS 💜

this manual page has been adopted for the MATE Desktop Environment by Vangelis Mouhtsis <vangelis@gnugr.org>. thank you for your service, king 🫶

🎀 a little sign-off 🎀

this page is part of the MATE manual collection, dated 2014-05-02, and it's filed under mate-control-center(1) like the certified classic it is. go configure something cute, bestie 💖✨🌸

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