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I suggest looking into ctwm instead, assuming you haven't already. It provides virtual desktops, EWMH compliance, true fullscreen...you can get the latest version with pkgsrc and let it reside under /opt.
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You can also disable the display manager service entirely and boot into console mode, than start the X window server with startx. This is as easy as: Code:
$ pfexec svcadm disable lightdm Code:
$ usermod -P'Primary Administrator' myusername
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Thanks @Sensucht94, your hints solved my problem. I did not know that lightdm ignores .xsession and uses .xprofile.
Now my xrandr-calls are in .xprofile and everything works fine: lightdm starts twm and the screen resolution is correct. However I now would like to have ctwm, but it is not in the repositories. Will try pkgsrc now. Thx for your kind help. Berni Last edited by berni51; 18th September 2021 at 03:18 PM. |
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Nope, you can use Joyent's binary pkgsrc packages for Illumos (remember pkgsrc is SmartOS main packagin system); they work really well on other illumos distributions like OI and Tribblix. Joyent's packages are in sync with pkgsrc-current, and on the plus side they're signed and served through https. Compiling from source through pkgsrc is another option. Here's the relevant entry on the NetBSD wiki.
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Thats great, thank you very, very much for your help. I read the documents you talked about, then downloaded the pkgsrc tree, installed the build-essential package from OI and tried to run the bootstrap script.
At first this failed, and the reason was the /usr/gnu/bin in $PATH. There is obviously a mistake in the netbsd description, cause as I removed /usr/gnu/bin from my path, the bootstrap script went fine. Then I compiled the ctwm from pkgsrc, what costs a little bit time. However the run was successful and now I have a better wm running. So the largest problem of OI is solved: The lack of applications. I now have the wide world of NetBSD in front of my eyes. Fantastic! This ist the pure ctwm, only with the system.ctwmrc: ![]() |
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You're welcome! I admit being rather pleased of coming across another illumos user, it's (understandably) becoming rarer these days.
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My mistake, haven't been using OI in 2-3 years (switched to Tribblix in the meantime, which doesn't use IPS, but classic SVR4 packages). I didn't know SFE repo was dormant (last few update packages seem dated 2020); that's quite sad to realize. SFE/OpenCSW used to be the preferred way to get Libreoffice, VLC, Audacious, mutt and others on OI up until recently.
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I ran into a problem using the (wonderfull) pkgsrc framework:
Was able to compile ctwm and it runs perfect. But now, when I try to compile another package (let's say feh) the compiler starts, but after a short time it stops with: configure: error: Cannot run C compiled programs. This happens always, except compiling ctwm again, that works. Probably I made a mistake, but I don't know what. Any ideas? Regards Berni |
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![]() SmartOS and OI are software distributions of the same core OS, the rolling-release illumos-gate¹. Joyent's pkgsrc binaries for Illumos (built on pkgsrc-current) are linked against illumos-gate and are therefore expected to work on other active illumos distributions. Instructions on how to enable the repo are available here
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Thanks @Sensucht94. I have tried to work with the binary packages. It was no problem to install (the latest version) the packages, however nothing of them starts on my computer. Each programs ends up in a core dump with:
Assertion failed: XCB_SEQUENCE_COMPARE(request, <=, c->out.request), file /jenkins/jobs/oi-userland/workspace/components/x11/libxcb/libxcb-1.13/src/xcb_out.c, line 473, function _xcb_out_flush_to core dump. The same thing happens when I make a package on a machine where everythings works well and where the compiled apps are running. When I install such a package on another machine (an older AMD pc) I get ther same message as above. Puh, really hard work to build an Openindiana machine. |
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Finally I'm quite satisfied with my Openindiana! Thanks to the hints of @Sensucht94 I was able to compile the apps I need or to install binaries from the marvellous pkgsrc project. Even the half-handfull of simple games I play sometimes are running.
On a second disk in the same computer I installed Tribblix - just to see what is is and what's the difference to Openindiana. As I use the machine as a workstation as well as a server (nfs, nginx, smb) in a local network, the other illumos distros like OmniOS or SmartOS are not a good choice for me - however I tried both. So again: I am happy with Openindiana and hope that it will have a long life. Regards Berni |
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