* On 2017-07-14 at 11:15 BST, karthik wrote:

> Is your VM on virtualbox or something else?

It's in VMware Fusion, but it shouldn't make any difference.  The
vmware Xorg drivers appear to work as expected.

> I did try KDE 4 on both 2016Q4 and 2017Q1 but on both occasions the
> plasma setup screen appears and then a message "KWin is
> unstable" message pops up presenting an option of KWin or
> Openbox. If i choose OpenBox instead of KWin I get a black screen.
> Was there any postinstall configuration you did on OmniOS to get
> KDE4 running?

I don't think so, but it's been some time since I tried KDE so things
may have changed since then.  There were a few things with it that
didn't work right, so it definitely needs a bit of work to become more
polished on illumos.

> A big thanks to you and the joyent team for providing this vast
> package set, combined with the native package sets of the distros,
> makes illumos on par with BSD and linux in terms of
> package/application choices.

You're welcome!

Cheers,

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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