[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing mate and enabling lightdm

Andreas Wacknitz A.Wacknitz at gmx.de
Sun Aug 21 08:06:48 UTC 2016


Hi

Am 21.08.16 um 02:51 schrieb Michael Kruger:
> For the sake of any folks new to OpenIndiana (such as myself), I 
> wanted to loosely document the process of installing the mate desktop 
> and enabling lightdm.
>
> 1) Install the MATE desktop meta package (sudo pkg install mate_install)
> 2) Close out running applications and boot into single user mode (sudo 
> init s).
> 3) Authenticate as root user
> 4) Disable the Gnome Desktop Manager (svcadm disable gdm)
> 5) Enable the LightDM desktop manager (svcadm enable lightdm)
> 6) Exit single user mode (exit)
>
> There might be more elegant ways of doing this, but the steps above 
> worked for me.
>
I simply changed ~/.dmrc to use mate instead of gnome.

Regards
Andreas



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