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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2017 09:01:15 -0500
From:      Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
To:        Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Corrections to handbook/x11-wm.html
Message-ID:  <86tw52ca50.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org>
In-Reply-To: <C804DFC6-243C-432A-86E9-45583A73F414@proper.com>
References:  <C804DFC6-243C-432A-86E9-45583A73F414@proper.com>

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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.

> You also need dbus_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, like for KDE.

I believe the instructions account for that, too. DBus should be started
by ConsoleKit, which is started when running `startx` if your ~/.xinitrc
file contains the line printed in that section of the Handbook.

> Also, to start, you need "startxfce4", not "startx".

`startx` is part of x11/xinit, and executes whatever is present in the
~/.xinitrc file. Again, if you followed the instructions in the order
they're presented, `startxfce4` should already be in ~/.xinitrc, and
`startx` should work just fine.

-- 
::  Brandon J. Wandersee
::  brandon.wandersee@gmail.com
::  --------------------------------------------------
::  'The best design is as little design as possible.'
::  --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------



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