From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 18:49:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C089529 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F5FAA8 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-18-117.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.18.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 686553CE4F; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:49:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id sAQInghQ005851; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:49:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:49:42 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Mike Kupfer Subject: Re: xdm questions Message-Id: <20141126194942.382a3c98.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <16052.1417026643@allegro.localdomain> References: <16052.1417026643@allegro.localdomain> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:49:52 -0000 On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:30:43 -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > 1. I tried running xdm without setting ~/.xsession to run Xfce. Upon > logging in, I expected to get a simple session with twm and/or an xterm. No, because twm needs to be installed additionally, as it's not part of the xdm package. Furthermore, ~/.xsession needs to be set accordingly - I'm not sure the system's default xsession file will even call twm. > Instead, I got bounced back to the xdm login screen. The problem was > that the Xsession script wanted to run xsm, but that package wasn't > installed. Shouldn't the xdm package have a dependency on the xsm > package? Basically xsm isn't needed, it's neither a compile-time nor a run-time dependency. But if the configuration default relies on it, it might be at least justified to inform the user about that fact in the post-installation message text. > 2. I had to reboot single-user in order to troubleshoot and fix the xsm > issue. I had expected to be able to use Alt+Fn to switch to a > non-xdm-controlled virtual terminal, but Alt+F1 etc. have no effect when > X is running. I have since reviewed the FAQ, and I now understand that > with X running, I should have used Ctrl+Alt+F1, not Alt+F1. If I remember correctly, in new FreeBSD + vt + X, this also doesn't work anymore. :-( > Unfortunately, Ctrl+Alt+F1 causes the VirtualBox *host* to switch to a > different virtual terminal. Is it possible to configure FreeBSD to use > a key combination other than Ctrl+Alt+Fn? Probably yes, but you can also configure VirtualBox to accept and relay those keys "as is" to the emulated environment. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...