FreeBSD Port: x11-wm/xfce4

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 29/02/2020 06:35, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 29/02/20 01:06, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> Hello;
>>
>> I've recently tried Xfce, and it's very nice. Just thought I'd suggest,
>> please set this file as executable:
>>
>> /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
>>
>> I ended up doing chmod +x to that file in order to get it working in xinit.
> I'll have a look at that.
>
> I'm using xfce from a display manager (lightdm) so I'm not using that file.

Ah yes, for the record I am following the handbook:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html

Where it says "Unlike GNOME or KDE, Xfce does not provide its own login 
manager ..."

>> While here, I am having trouble as both mouse and the keyboard stop
>> working in X. Curiously both worked find in KDE.
> Maybe this is caused by the recent Xorg-server port change from devd
> baackend to udev backend?

It's likely. I had it working at a time but the up arrow key stopped 
working after the update. I then removed all the packages and started 
from scratch.


> If that's the case the solution if installing xf86-input-evdev and
> restarting Xorg.

That was certainly missing but I might have missed some configuration, 
as it still doesn't work.

I also lost the acceleration (ati-legacy) with the update. I'll figure 
it out ;).

> BTW xf86-input-evdev should be a dependency of the xorg-drivers
> metaport, so maybe forcing a reinstallation of that one will fix the issue.

I started using xorg-minimal which explains some missing stuff.

Thanks anyways!

Pedro.