[OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?

Wed Feb 24 08:30:44 UTC 2021

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:17 AM Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net>
wrote:

> I'm wondering why mwm is apparently not part of the motif package for
> OpenIndiana. AFAIK it's included with the OpenMotif source bundle, and it's
> fairly lightweight as window managers go, while still (to my eyes, anyway)
> looking a bit prettier than twm. It's a lot like CDE dtwm, minus control
> panel, actions, etc (and no file manager, which is a separate program
> anyway); pretty sure that mwmrc files use a subset of the f. commands that
> dtwm has.
>

That's likely because the OI motif is the old (closed?) motif runtime from
OpenSolaris,
not something built from the open source. Replacing it with OpenMotif would
break
binary compatibility with anything linked against the old version, which is
presumably
why it's not been switched.

> > On Feb 23, 2021, at 18:19, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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