[OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday,...:

> On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 08:49:06PM -0600, Tim Mooney wrote:
>> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday, Gary...:
>>
>>> I have a laptop, an ASUS Eee PC 1005PE, that now has 2 gigs of memory.
>>> The memory upgrade allowed me to do a package upgrade from a Hipster
>>> BE of 2017-06-10 to yesterday's version of 2019-03-01 .
>>
>> I haven't verified the timeline, but for an upgrade from that far out of
>> date, you probably also need to look into the switch from the old desktop
>> environment to MATE.
>
> Yes, that seems reasonable to me.  The old BE runs Gnome.
>
>> It could also be that you just need to activate the MATE graphical login.
>> What's the state of  svc:/application/graphical-login/lightdm:default ?
>
> It doesn't exist.  That's some upgrade, eh?  Is there a package I can
> add to install MATE?

When I converted from the old environment to MATE, I followed the
instructions that alp provided.  I would check the wiki first, to
see if there are updated instructions for the conversion, but I can't
verify whether there's anything there for MATE since for some reason
the OI wiki has failed to load the last few times I've tried to connect.
If you can't find anything on the wiki, the mailing list thread about
switching to MATE happened in mid-August 2016, so hopefully that
helps you find it in the archives.

Back when I switched, the pkg:/mate_install was a meta-package that pulled
in the majority of MATE.   That may have only been valid during a
(now-expired) transition phase, so I don't know if that's still a valid
path to get most of what you need.

Tim
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