From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Sun May 7 23:08:55 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8512BD630B1 for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 23:08:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from mail.proper.com (Opus1.Proper.COM [207.182.41.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28C6C162A for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 23:08:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from [169.254.120.20] (142-254-101-176.dsl.dynamic.fusionbroadband.com [142.254.101.176]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.proper.com (8.15.2/8.14.9) with ESMTPSA id v47N8MN0008408 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 7 May 2017 16:08:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.proper.com: Host 142-254-101-176.dsl.dynamic.fusionbroadband.com [142.254.101.176] claimed to be [169.254.120.20] From: "Paul Hoffman" To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Corrections to handbook/x11-wm.html Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 16:08:45 -0700 Message-ID: <64F897F2-EB34-4984-AFA7-CBD99620D6FC@proper.com> In-Reply-To: <86tw52ca50.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org> References: <86tw52ca50.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Mailer: MailMate (1.9.6r5347) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 23:08:55 -0000 On 3 May 2017, at 7:01, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > Paul Hoffman writes: > >> Greetings. The description in "5.7.3. Xfce" is incomplete, at least >> for >> installing with "pkg". You also need "pkg install xinit" and "pkg >> install Xorg", at least for FreeBSD 11. > > The instructions for installing Xfce follow the instructions for > installing and configuring a basic Xorg setup. If you're reading the > chapter in order, there shouldn't be any problems. I now see that, but I wasn't reading in order. I searched for "freebsd xfce" and got directly to x11-wm.html, which is section 5.6. Nothing on that page points back to 5.3 (or, as I can see now, the good stuff on 5.4). I don't know if this is an actionable bug. That is, I bet many other handbook pages that are section X.6 rely on you having started reading at X.1. If you agree, feel free to close this report. If not, a simple pointer at the top of the page that says "You must have Xorg already set up and should probably read this whole chapter starting at 5.1" would be useful. Thanks for the pointer to the earlier material! --Paul Hoffman