Is "How-To use MATE" documented?

[Richard Owlett]

I found:
1. https://mate-desktop.org/
-- no mention of user oriented documentation
2. https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/
Titled "Welcome to the documentation"

Every application comes with its own help dialogue. Furthermore
there are lots of online tutorials.

But Where????????

I need to know how icons are placed on the default screen which displays
the contents of "/home/richard/.config/Desktop".

Placement is where ever cursor happens to to be.
How can I get them into nice even rows and columns.

[Dan Purgert]

Post by Richard Owlett
I need to know how icons are placed on the default screen which
displays the contents of "/home/richard/.config/Desktop".
Placement is where ever cursor happens to to be.
How can I get them into nice even rows and columns.

Isn't that based on the (right-click) context menu "Align to Grid"
option? If it's enabled, things are forced to the grid; disabled, icons
can go where-ever.

Been a while since I've used MATE though, might still have a VM with it
as an option that I can check in a few hours, if nobody corrects me
beforehand.

[Richard Owlett]

Post by Dan Purgert

Post by Richard Owlett
I need to know how icons are placed on the default screen which
displays the contents of "/home/richard/.config/Desktop".
Placement is where ever cursor happens to to be.
How can I get them into nice even rows and columns.

Isn't that based on the (right-click) context menu "Align to Grid"
option? If it's enabled, things are forced to the grid; disabled, icons
can go where-ever.

With that as a hint I right-clicked in an empty area.
A "menu" appeared. One line said "Keep Aligned". I had a check mark.

The gradation of "acceptable" locations is much to fine to be useful.

Again, where is any of this documented?

You tried ;/

[MATE is quite intuitive. Been using it since it came out.]

Post by Dan Purgert
Been a while since I've used MATE though, might still have a VM with it
as an option that I can check in a few hours, if nobody corrects me
beforehand.

[d***@howorth.org.uk]

Post by Richard Owlett
1. https://mate-desktop.org/
-- no mention of user oriented documentation
2. https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/
Titled "Welcome to the documentation"

Every application comes with its own help dialogue.
Furthermore there are lots of online tutorials.

But Where????????

Maybe I'm being dumb but On the "Help" menu? Specifically the item
labelled "Contents"? That's where the help is for every application.

As regards icon placement, I don't know, but does the bash script at
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1320316/where-desktop-icon-positions-are-saved-in-mate
help?

Looking at the description at
https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/components/marco/ it seems
that there is a choice of what window manager you use, which I suppose
might affect where icons are placed on the desktop.

There's also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MATE

I agree there seems to be a lack of documentation. There are lots of
hits on google though to queries like mate-desktop icon placement.