From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 16:02:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3073B4A for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71F832A79 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:02:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id eu11so5129976pac.4 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:references:mail-followup-to:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=VsShX5IU3aJYM001DC1Arn17mSovSDnvbijIfwbIWhc=; b=J+63LI0vxxdFXERIRn1dNFg2Q/ue/mFLINlmyLF2bW/VDsB0oqfOXM3jzluIWSHmUE EANx6BQ/k7ge89fct7eKYkuuJImA7yL1EOX1caHIv2CXzHB3Ia1nGfPaODD8I721gA8T SUth3aXDnlIONgP4/hFCtTywUP1cDChEqylxp0/BgdkUoYKlF0d9GSoi7EAik62zxO22 xR24xbJc5nXp6VuopAb4t3z8H7PgkAywyzhuCrr9G6dtHwPuB0F8nBXYgniuvL1NLxu2 P6r3zdF76UPH7TD3whVf8i/H3Apr9CXa3fND3z/v/n0ZquhsJX2in+QDvqv0yyIBUdtc gnQQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnqhynXMdLJ5MbneRkmnxwN2d3Mm7P6m3kUyPrlKuKzC9Dqbo3FsYYy76EZ4C+22d85vfkF X-Received: by 10.66.232.166 with SMTP id tp6mr21038011pac.127.1408204928239; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elk.localnet ([2604:8800:100:82aa:6ef0:49ff:fe05:658b]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l3sm11210303pbq.8.2014.08.16.09.02.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlj by elk.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XIgQc-00026s-UL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:02:02 -0700 From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:02:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> (William A. Mahaffey, III's message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:50:42 -0500") Message-ID: <87iolsift1.fsf@elk.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 16:02:15 -0000 "William A. Mahaffey III" writes: > .... 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 .... I had also given up on running xdm with xfce on 10.0. I copied a running configuration from 9.1 but it refused to work with 10.0. I tried just a bare xterm and jwm and both work with xdm, so it appears to be xfce. Similar to others, I just have my .bash_profile run startx automatically, but in my case only when `tty` = /dev/ttyv3. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org