I've managed to corrupt my user-wide mate configuration so that marco (the window manager) does not start up when I log in. Thankfully the taskbar still does, so as a stopgap, I open up a terminal and run marco and functionality is back to normal. The last thing I tinkered with was removing ~/.config/menus/applications-merged but I doubt that did it and I've been logged in a long time so I'm not sure what did it. It's definitely a local problem since I created a new user and their login worked fine. I am on Debian 8 if that makes a difference.First I checkedorg.mate.desktop.session.require-components windowmanager But that looks fine and shows 'marco.'Then I tried:removing the various ~/.gnome directories and re-logging inremoving my ~/.config directory and re-logging inI am stumped. I appreciate any help!
MATE login without marco
login;mate