From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 4 03:48:36 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3781FC5C52 for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 03:48:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from filter06.peak.org (filter06.peak.org [69.59.194.82]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B02C7931A for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 03:48:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org ([207.55.16.112]) by filter06.peak.org ({0c47b2c3-829a-4f18-b445-de68be8d048d}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20180504034453288_0000 for ; Thu, 03 May 2018 20:44:53 -0700 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0437B4D2CB for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 20:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8BA4DAB3 for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 20:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zmail-mta02.peak.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id YgQW1TUMwenB for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 20:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailproxy-lb-06.peak.org (mailproxy-lb-06.peak.org [207.55.17.96]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8ED64D2CB for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 20:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlj by elm.localnet with local (Exim 4.90 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1fEReI-000Hyu-1M for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 20:44:46 -0700 From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to x11/gnome3 ? References: <20180429140256.GA8201@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <042bf1a7-32fb-8bfa-16d1-9cbc54e19a61@zyxst.net> <20180503043605.GA49385@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 20:44:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20180503043605.GA49385@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> (Victor Sudakov's message of "Thu, 3 May 2018 11:36:05 +0700") Message-ID: <86sh78dqz6.fsf@elm.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-MAG-OUTBOUND: peakinternet.redcondor.net@207.55.16/22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 03:48:36 -0000 Victor Sudakov writes: > tech-lists wrote: >> > >> > What alternative to x11/gnome3 can you advise? >> > >> > I would like a more lightweight desktop environment, however it MUST >> > support switching between GUI users without logging out (like >> > Ubuntu or Windows). >> > >> > I tried Mate but it does not seem to be able to switch between users >> > without logging out (at least the display manager Mate comes with >> > cannot do that). >> > >> > Thanks in advance for any input. >> > >> >> I use xdm with xfce4 for this. > > Could you please tell more about it. What packages you had to install > besides x11/xfce, how you configured xdm and xfce4 to support user > switching, how you start xfce4. I haven't used it, but XFCE does have a 'switch user' button for the panel. It is part of the 'action buttons' panel addon, but appears to be part of the basic install. Those action buttons also include things like lock screen, suspend, hibernate, etc. Let me know if you need more information. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org