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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:35:05 -0800
From:      Davor Cubranic <cubranic@stat.ubc.ca>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Handbook fix: Xfce with XDM
Message-ID:  <8E8C4255-7D4E-4D7F-AA2E-09EED1FDFDCC@stat.ubc.ca>

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With a clean install of FreeBSD 10.1 in VirtualBox, I had to add:

DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

to XDM config in order to get it to start xfce. This is not mentioned in =
the handbook, so I was getting error messages in my .xsession-errors. =
The fix was described in =
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Re-ports-154502-x11-xdm-authorization=
-failure-when-used-with-E17-window-manager-td5819660.html=



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