I used to use Mate but I think maintaining GNOME 2 is an uphill battle. Now I use gnome-flashback with xmonad and don't really have any problems. On NixOS it's

I used to use Mate but I think maintaining GNOME 2 is an uphill battle. Now I use gnome-flashback with xmonad and don't really have any problems. On NixOS it's very simple to configure.