[OpenIndiana-discuss] what command is used to start MATE?

[Stephan Althaus]

Helloa

Being in your case i usually i start X,
put it to background  then bg   - or change the console (vt)
and do
DISPLAY=:0 marco

Hope this helps..
Stephan


On 01/19/21 21:21, Chris wrote:
> I'm attempting another go at getting a DE on OI on my
> intel HD4000/i915 rig.
> I performed a fresh (text) install. Followed by a
> pkg install mate_install. Which dragged in some 426 packages,
> and initiated a good number of services; several of which
> returned a failure message. The last of which was
> /system/upower
> which instructed me to initiate
> svcs -xv svc:/system/upower:default
> which returned
> Reason: Restarting too quickly
> I'm going to pretend none of this is my problem for getting
> MATE || X(org) to draw a desktop on my screen, and simply
> perform a startx. In order to do that I'm going to need the
> correct command to initiate the mate DE.
> Guessing; it's mate-wm or mate-session
> But I don't actually know. So could someone please inform me?
>
> Thanks
>
> P.S.
> In an effort to reduce variables I will *not* be enabling/starting
> (x|g)dm to do this.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --Chris
>