From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jan 2 05:07:33 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 1A7F7C9B96A for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2017 05:07:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ws@au.dyndns.ws) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A2F182A for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2017 05:07:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ws@au.dyndns.ws) Received: from ppp103-111.static.internode.on.net (HELO lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws) ([150.101.103.111]) by ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 02 Jan 2017 15:37:22 +1030 X-Envelope-From: ws@au.dyndns.ws X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from predator-ii.buffyverse (predator-ii.buffyverse [172.17.17.136]) by lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id v0257DnW028467; Mon, 2 Jan 2017 15:37:13 +1030 (ACDT) (envelope-from ws@au.dyndns.ws) Message-ID: <1483333633.67324.28.camel@au.dyndns.ws> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.0 i386, XDM 1.1.11_6, XFCE 4.12_1 -- How to enable GUI shutdown and restart? From: Wayne Sierke To: David Christensen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:37:13 +1030 In-Reply-To: References: <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> <20161230154841.7d2561e2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20161231163107.64b0582d.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws [172.17.17.142]); Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:37:13 +1030 (ACDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.75 on 172.17.17.142 X-Scanned-By: SpamAssassin 3.004000(2014-02-07) X-Scanned-By: ClamAV X-Spam-Score: -1 () ALL_TRUSTED X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 05:07:33 -0000 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