[OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

[Michael Kruger]

On 05/11/2016 02:34 AM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote:

> Hi Toasterson,
>
> I did unpacked MATE to separate directory, and navigated there, then:
> $ ls -la
> total 22K
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root            root   11 May 11 08:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 predrag_zecevic admin   3 May 11 08:23 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root            root   82 May  5 18:27 bin
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root            root    3 Mar 29  2015 doc
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root            root    7 May  5 18:27 etc
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root            root   24 May  5 18:27 include
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root            root  110 May  5 18:28 lib
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root            root   30 May  5 17:50 libexec
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root            root    3 Mar 29  2015 man
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root            root    3 May  3 14:57 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x 58 root            root   58 May  5 18:27 share
>
> I see that that structure is not same as / one, and also some files will
> be replaced on existing OS (latest /hipster in my case), for example:
>
> $ ls -al etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K May  5 18:27
> etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf
>
> $ ls -al /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 1.4K Oct  3  2015
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf
>
> What I did NOT checked is how many other files will be replaced and how
> many files will be installed on wrong place, for example 'lib' dir
> should go to '/usr/lib'?
>
> With best regards.
> Predrag Zečević

I inquired about how to test this via IRC:

[08:22:11] <alp> makruger: gdm looks for /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop
[08:22:39] <alp> just ensure that you have corresponding file for mate there


Hope that helps,

Michael