For the sake of any folks new to OpenIndiana (such as myself), I wanted to loosely document the process of installing the mate desktop and enabling lightdm.

1) Install the MATE desktop meta package (sudo pkg install mate_install)
2) Close out running applications and boot into single user mode (sudo init s).
3) Authenticate as root user
4) Disable the Gnome Desktop Manager (svcadm disable gdm)
5) Enable the LightDM desktop manager (svcadm enable lightdm)
6) Exit single user mode (exit)

There might be more elegant ways of doing this, but the steps above worked for me.

Hope that helps,

Michael

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