On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 09:04, Roelof van der Wal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gdm is not 'installed', i checked it yesterday and was not in the svcs list. 
> But i guessed that it wasn't needed/used by openindiana.

erm ... could you have said so? we'd get to the point much quicker if
you provided the information you have and your conclusions, not just a
tidbit that might or might not be relevant.

since you don't have gdm installed, why not apply the "pkg search gdm;
pkg install <what you found out>" pattern?

Michael
> I have a laptop with a nvidia card and thought that was causing the troubles.
>
> Op 18 dec. 2010 om 08:56 heeft "Michael Schuster" <[email protected]> 
> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 08:40, Roelof van der Wal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> That was where the *sigh* came from. I don't getvthe beautiful gnome 
>>> desktop in virtualbox, only the commandline.....
>>
>> sounds like gdm is not running; if you run "svcs -a | grep gdm", is
>> the first word "online"? if not, run "svcadm enable gdm", that should
>> do it (provided that's all that's missing).
>>
>> HTH
>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Op 18 dec. 2010 om 01:11 heeft "Gordon Ross" <[email protected]> het 
>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> After you login on GNOME, see the menus:
>>>> System / Preferences / Desktop Sharing.
>>>> That enables "vino" which is a VNC server showing your (logged in) desktop.
>>>> Cool, eh?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Michael Schuster
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 15:25, Roelof van der Wal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> How can i get a remote display connection to OpenIndiana? I just got it 
>>>>>> (server edition) running in Virtualbox and I want to use vnc or another 
>>>>>> lookalike to see how the desktop looks like. Vncserver was not installed 
>>>>>> but maybe there are other preinstalled rdp-things that I am not aware of?
>>>>>
>>>>> pkg search vncserver; pkg install <result from previous>
>>>>>
>>>>> should help, no?
>>>>> --
>>>>> regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen
>>>>> Michael Schuster
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