<div dir="ltr"><pre>I managed to get Mate in 16.04 working by using system dafault value for <br>XDG_DATA_DIRS.<br><br>I set in .profile<br><br>export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=/usr/share/mate:/usr/share/mate:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop<br>export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/mate:/usr/share/mate:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop<br></pre></div>