Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:37:13 +1030 From: Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.0 i386, XDM 1.1.11_6, XFCE 4.12_1 -- How to enable GUI shutdown and restart? Message-ID: <1483333633.67324.28.camel@au.dyndns.ws> In-Reply-To: <a0e0390a-55e2-9ad0-3e74-26f25ae5309f@holgerdanske.com> References: <e721fc89-46b0-ea8c-9ed3-ad6c0df58c29@holgerdanske.com> <e0b1bd9a-dbe0-31cb-ee70-0cfe87da694b@bananmonarki.se> <2c0d9213-1adc-48b7-bdf6-a6b4a577d726@bananmonarki.se> <622bd615-48b9-031a-65d8-3c7daf663cb9@holgerdanske.com> <09d1385a-6356-b732-ddd4-ebd678c25419@bananmonarki.se> <507828f7-6621-15f8-f55d-0ad172857fc1@holgerdanske.com> <e4100f12-b37d-3e0b-2d5e-5cb65f5c49a5@bananmonarki.se> <20161230154841.7d2561e2.freebsd@edvax.de> <bca9e1b0-f298-e5da-d583-134ad0bd18b7@holgerdanske.com> <20161231163107.64b0582d.freebsd@edvax.de> <a0e0390a-55e2-9ad0-3e74-26f25ae5309f@holgerdanske.com>
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On Sat, 2016-12-31 at 10:41 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
>
> What is the canonical method to determine if hald is operating on a
> FreeBSD 11 system?
This desktop is running Gnome3 on FreeBSD-10.3:
~ # service -l | grep hal
hald
~ # service hald status
hald is running as pid 1056.
~ #
Note that in this case hald (and other services) are automatically
launched due to "gnome_enable" in /etc/rc.conf:
~ # cat /etc/rc.conf
...
# Gnome desktop
gnome_enable="YES"
# hald_enable="YES"
# dbus_enable="YES"
# polkitd_enable="YES"
# gdm_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="NO"
...
~ # grep -r gnome_enable /usr/local/etc/rc.d | less
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus:dbus_enable=${dbus_enable-${gnome_enable}}
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald:hald_enable=${hald_enable-${gnome_enable}}
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon:avahi_daemon_enable=${avahi_daemon_enable-${gnome_enable}}
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd:avahi_dnsconfd_enable=${avahi_dnsconfd_enable-${gnome_enable}}
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm:gdm_enable=${gdm_enable-${gnome_enable}}
~ #
>
> That said, are Gnome or KDE better integrated on FreeBSD?
>
I've been using Gnome3 (and previously Gnome2 and mate) and overall it
has worked quite well for me (on my desktop system, I've never used it
on laptops etc.)
I did give lumina a quick try and thought it looked quite good. (I only
went back to Gnome3 because I now strongly prefer Gnome3's app/window
switcher).
Wayne
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