Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 14:23:41 +0000 From: B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mate And Slim Load But Don't Work Message-ID: <CAP7QzkMXQ8jPnvCwdaJPxygywmU8OdExG_a8Yi60aXk7LH8hyw@mail.gmail.com>
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This one has me baffled. A few days ago, I did my monthly system FreeBSD upgrades. The results for one machine didn’t go quite as expected as Slim wouldn’t allow me to log on. I disabled Slim in /etc/rc.conf through single-user mode and I managed to resolve it by what I found at: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/glib-gio-error.76086/ After running the following: pkg autoremove -y pkg update -f pkg upgrade -f reboot I enabled Slim again and I’m able to log in again. The only problem is that Mate apparently doesn’t recognize my monitor. Yesterday, I tried the same thing on the other installation on the same machine. The only thing I did differently was to enable Slim before rebooting. Slim loads but doesn’t appear to work as all I get is the command line log-in prompt. I thought the problem might be only with Slim, so I tried: exec mate-session after logging in (startx is apparently missing) and I got the following messages: Unable to init server: Could not connect to 127.0.0.1: Connection refused ** (mate-session:963): WARNING**: 22:14:10.767: Cannot open display: and I was returned to the log-in prompt. I don’t think it’s a problem with the monitor as I tried the same thing with two others I had on hand. Any suggestions as to what do to fix it? Was a file corrupted or do I have to re-install something? As much as I like Mate and Slim, I’m seriously thinking of trying another desktop. I don’t particularly like Xfce, but it’s given me less trouble than Mate has in recent months. I’ve installed FreeBSD on another machine with Lumina as the desktop, though it seems a bit quirky for me. (For example, Firefox loads, but I can’t get a connection to the Internet with it.) I’ll have to try it some more to see if I can figure it out. Maybe I should be looking at something like GhostBSD. Thank you. BMJ
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