FreeBSD 11.0 i386, XDM 1.1.11_6, XFCE 4.12_1 -- How to enable GUI shutdown and restart?
David Christensen
dpchrist at holgerdanske.com
Tue Dec 27 04:13:12 UTC 2016
freebsd-questions:
I have a machine running FreeBSD 11.0 i386, XDM, and XFCE:
2016-12-26 19:48:26 dpchrist at t7400 ~
$ freebsd-version
11.0-RELEASE-p1
2016-12-26 19:48:42 dpchrist at t7400 ~
$ uname -a
FreeBSD t7400 11.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0 r306420: Thu
Sep 29 03:40:55 UTC 2016
root at releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
2016-12-26 19:48:44 dpchrist at t7400 ~
$ pkg info xdm | grep -i version
Version : 1.1.11_6
2016-12-26 19:48:51 dpchrist at t7400 ~
$ pkg info xfce | grep -i version
Version : 4.12_1
I installed Xorg per the handbook:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html
However, I was unable to figure out how to exit TWM -- left-clicking on
desktop and choosing Exit caused the windows to go blank and mouse
clicks to no longer do anything. I had to ssh in from another machine
and kill the xinit process.
I then installed XFCE per the Handbook:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
2016-12-26 19:48:55 dpchrist at t7400 ~
$ cat .xinitrc
exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch
2016-12-26 19:53:46 dpchrist at t7400 ~
$ cat .xsession
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch
I was able to start Xfce via 'startx'. Choosing Mouse -> Log out
brought me back to the shell.
I then installed XDM per the Handbook:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html
After rebooting, XDM comes up, I can log in, XFCE works, and log out
returns me to XDM.
How do I enable GUI Shutdown and Restart capabilities in both XDM and XFCE?
TIA,
David
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