Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online ....

[Matt Bettinger]

25 emails to use a FreeBSD desktop...  Just use windows or linux
On Aug 16, 2014 6:44 AM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:

>
> On 08/15/14 12:44, Polytropon wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:33:52 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/15/14 12:24, Polytropon wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:06 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> open display: .
>>>>>
>>>> Huh?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Type 'xfce4-session --help' for usage.
>>>>>
>>>> Do you have "exec xfce4-session" in your user's ~/.xinitrc or
>>>> ~/.xsession file (last line)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  [wam at kabini1, ~, 12:26:31pm] 364 % cat .xinitrc
>>> exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
>>> [wam at kabini1, ~, 12:32:39pm] 365 % cat .xsession
>>> #!
>>> exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
>>> [wam at kabini1, ~, 12:32:45pm] 366 %
>>>
>> Oh, and note that the first line "#!" is nonsense. Use "#!/bin/sh".
>> Can probably be omitted.
>>
>> And you could try this:
>>
>> exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4
>>
>> This looks familiar to me. I prefer something simpler though. :-)
>>
>>
> Good catch on the bad '#!' line, I fixed that & still nogo .... someone
> later suggested some alterations to some of the xdm config files .... at
> this point, I've pretty much given up on it, I just do a console login,
> then type startx & all is well. I normally stay logged in for long periods
> (weeks/months), so this doesn't come up often ....
>
> --
>
>         William A. Mahaffey III
>
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