mate-keyboard-properties(1)

mate-keyboard-properties1

Manage keyboard behaviour in mate

Usage

mate-keyboard-properties [OPTIONS ...]

Overview

This executable is part of the package 'mate-control-center': The MATE Control Center.

Keyboard Preferences manages all settings related to the keyboard in a MATE environment. This includes key repeat delay, cursor blinking, layouts and layout options. You can also configure a typing break which locks the screen and enforces a break from work.

Options

--apply

Just apply settings and quit (compatibility only; now handled by daemon)

--init-session-settings

Just apply settings and quit (compatibility only; now handled by daemon)

--get-legacy

Retrieve and store legacy settings

--typing-break

Start the page with the typing break settings showing

This program also accepts the standard MATE and GTK options.

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

Authors

This manual page was writtenby Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From mate-control-center 1.28.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.