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Originally Posted by jggimi

A quick Google search found this, which may help:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...s-10-a-324502/

In addition, if using the motif display manager is not desiderable, one may also fall back to /usr/openwin/bin/xinit.


Or use a script like:

#!/bin/sh


trap '$HOME/.xinitrc; kill %1' USR1 
  

(
     trap '' USR1
     exec /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
) & 
 
wait

Generating an ad-hoc X configuration with xorgconfig can be useful if the server fails to attach.

Originally Posted by stormy

Thanks for that. Someone contacted me recently and told me that apparently Solaris won't output anything on the graphics card unless it has a keyboard connected, it just goes into TTY mode. So yeah I guess I need to track down a keyboard! I was hoping to do everything over SSH & then use Synergy/Barrier KVM once into the GUI.

Could X11 forwarding over ssh represent a viable alternative?

Originally Posted by berni51

When I installed Solaris 11.4 some weeks ago, only the base system was installed by the installer, but no Xorg. I had to install solaris-desktop with pkg to get a running Xorg/Gnome.

That's because 11.4 only provides text installers (almost completely ditching anything related to desktop), but this didn't use to be the case up to 11.3, much less with SunOS 5.10.