From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 15:58:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04F7C9BA for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDB5129C2 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:58:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-76-149.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.149]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7GFw3bW020333 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:58:03 -0500 Message-ID: <53EF8102.3010406@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:04:18 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:58:07 -0000 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" > 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 > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "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.