[OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?

[Reginald Beardsley]

There is hope after all :-)

I program on a 1600x1200 portrait mode screen and display graphics on a landscape mode 1600x1200 screen. That gives me a slightly larger than life size full sheet of paper terminal window. Having all that context when reading code really helps.

However, I still need to learn how to bring SMF to heel.

Have Fun!
Reg

     On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 04:30:08 PM CST, Rolf M. Dietze <rmd at orbit.in-berlin.de> wrote:  
 
 Hi,
yes, got it running. xdm login, twm as window manager. Fast and
smart:)

As I started up with a text console only, Andreas and Carsten
on this list told me to do a pkg install mate_install and start
the SMF-service for lightdm. With a little nvidia driver update
all worked fine. Since I like fast minimalistik desktops that do
not consume the compute power for windows decorations, I did:
pkg install twm
pkg install xdm
copied th svc-lightdm method to svc-xdm, set it up for xdm, reseted
the xdm-fmri as was installed alongside by pkg install xdm, pointed
it to the freshly createt login-xdm. (guess I could have used the
default anyway, it just starts xdm so:)
After that I did a svc disable graphical-login/lightdm. That of
cause stopped my GUI-desktop at once and no text-console for what
ever reason. Logged into the box from remote, su-ed my shell to
root again and did a svcadm enable graphical-login/xdm. After a
while, xdm started, with a login I got twm running since I already
copied my common .xinit and .twmrc to my $HOME. Thats all. Really
no magic, worked somehow off the shelf, ist fast and as old fashioned
as I hoped for:)
All packages came form:
PUBLISHER                  TYPE    STATUS P LOCATION
openindiana.org              origin  online F  
http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/
running  5.11 illumos-6859ab0054 i86pc i386 i86pc

The box this runs on is a decommissioned Dell Optiplex 980 with an
Intel 4-cores i5, 16GB ram, some kind of mass-produced dell nvidia
with dual head support that the university dumped.

Rolf


Quoting Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss  
<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>:

> I'd be extremely interested if you get twm running on OI. I've stuck  
> with Solaris 10 u8 because I couldn't figure out a way to run twm  
> cleanly.
>
> Reg
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 01:46:38 PM CST, Rolf M. Dietze  
> <rmd at orbit.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> thanks for the very fast reply
>
> I did the mate_install and enabled the lightdm service.
> looked nice but I got:
> 0 1 root at skyfall pts/1 ~ 4# svcs -vx lightdm
> svc:/application/graphical-login/lightdm:default (Light Display Manager)
>  State: offline since Tue Feb 23 20:35:06 2021
> Reason: Service svc:/system/consolekit:default was restarting too quickly.
>  See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-GE
>  Path: svc:/application/graphical-login/lightdm:default
>  svc:/system/consolekit:default
>  See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1 lightdm
> Impact: This service is not running.
>
> But a decent nvidia-driver did the trick, box is up and running
> with a mate desktop. Were can I find the pkg-names of aggregartion
> packages, assuming mate_install is on of those?
>
> I will see for a faster desktop so, X11 with twm is what I am
> running on FreeBSD-Boxes, CDE on AIX and so. I saw, there is
> a cde available so I will go to installing that and give it a
> try.
>
> Tanks a lot,
> Rolf
>
>
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