[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 08/18/16 04:53 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:12:45PM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>>
>> So, let me introduce Mate 1.14. To facilitate installing, I've
>> created pkg:/mate_install, which should be shortly available.
>> Unfortunately, when you have both Gnome 2 and Mate installed, both
>> of them try to use the same applications, so you'll have interesting
>> time removing Gnome 2 applications from Mate and vice versa.
>
> Is it possible to have both installed but select which one to run?  I
> recall that at one time, Solaris 10 offered both CDE and Gnome
> desktops.  You could select the one your preferred from the login
> screen.  Something similar for OI might be useful.
>

Yes, of course.
If you install mate_install meta-package, it will pull in lightdm DM.
If you don't need it and would like to use gdm, you can uninstall 
mate_install, ligthdm and system/display-manager/lightdm/gtk-greeter  .

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department