Well, as you known, MobileMate infact is a tiny Linux OS with special use. So let's be familiar with it's basic use environment. MobieMate V0.1 is customized on TinyCore Linux 3.7.1, you can refer to TinyCore Linux's screen shots and use videos, and, refer to its Wiki for more detail.

Here, we only introduce some environment use related to use MobileMate to convert video/audio file. You can click on the any place of white space of desktop to call the popup menu.

The default screen resolution is 1024×768, if you need change this, click the fifth bottom toolbar icon “Panel” or “popup menu”→“SystemTools”→“ControlPanel”, call the ControlPanel. Click “Xvesa” of the “Setup” column, enter the number before the resolution, press Enter, enter the number of Mouse type(usually select 1).

Then, click the toolbar first icon “Exit” or click “popup menu”→“Logout”, select “Exit to Prompt” radio button, click 'Ok“, then we enter the Prompt of text console, input “startx” to start the desktop environment again, it will display the new screen resolution now.

The default is MobileMate will mount all mountable disks automatically, and can also mount the newly added the USB drive or CD/DVD drive automatically. But, if you want umount the partition or drive, e.g., before you unplug the USB stick, you must umount it first; Or, you need mount the drive manually, then, you need use the “Mount Tool” here.

Click the eighth icon “Mount” or “popup menu”→“SystemTools”→“MountTool”, start “Mount tool”. The green item indicate the drive is mounted and versus the red item indicate the drive isn't mounted. Click the item to toggle the mount state. Click “Refresh” to get the latest mount state of all drives, e.g., when you newly plug in the USB stick.

Click the tenth icon “PCManFM-ModFileManager” in bottom toolbar or “popup menu”→“Applications”→“PCManFM-ModFileManager” to start file manager. The left window default show the home directory, tce directory and all the disks and partitions, click it show its content in the right window. Please note, you can't mount and umount a disk or partition here, you need “Mount Tool” above to do this.

Sometimes, you need operate file or directory with root authority, click menu item “Tool”→“Open Current Folder as Root”.

You can play most of video or audio file in file manager, just double click the file in it. If it can not work, right click the file, “popup menu”→“Open with…”→“Open with another program”, type “mplayer.me” in text area after “Command Line:”, click “OK”.

You can edit the text file in file manager by click it. If it can not work, use the way above, but open the file use “editor” instead of “mplayer.me” above.

You can open the current folder in “urxvt” terminal. Just right click the any white space of right window of file manager, “popup menu”→“Open in Terminal”.