Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:04:18 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <53EF8102.3010406@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <CAEeRwNVq85wVQ=h62t0Us4MLyR1gojp2ovJowDHR8KnxTwCdww@mail.gmail.com> References: <53EBE6D6.8090501@hiwaay.net> <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> <20140815194438.2a468e5f.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> <CAEeRwNVq85wVQ=h62t0Us4MLyR1gojp2ovJowDHR8KnxTwCdww@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/16/14 07:02, Matt Bettinger wrote: Touche :-/ .... Actually, 20-ish of Linux is part of the problem, lotta stuff to unlearn or relearn .... > 25 emails to use a FreeBSD desktop... Just use windows or linux > > On Aug 16, 2014 6:44 AM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net > <mailto:wam@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@kabini1, ~, 12:26:31pm] 364 % cat .xinitrc > exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 > [wam@kabini1, ~, 12:32:39pm] 365 % cat .xsession > #! > exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 > [wam@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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war > ever devised by man." > -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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