[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing mate and enabling lightdm

[Michael Kruger]

On 08/21/16 04:06 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> 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.

Ah yes, somehow I completely overlooked mentioning how to change into 
the MATE desktop.
I used the selector at the logon screen, but thanks for sharing your method.

Michael