From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 20:01:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4330A5F2 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219A3AC7 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:01:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from allegro.localdomain (m208-249.dsl.rawbw.com [198.144.208.249]) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sAQK1I58000388; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.kupfer@acm.org) From: Mike Kupfer To: Polytropon Subject: Re: xdm questions In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:49:42 +0100." <20141126194942.382a3c98.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: MH-E 8.6; nmh 1.5; GNU Emacs 24.3.94 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:01:18 -0800 Message-ID: <17096.1417032078@allegro.localdomain> 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 20:01:23 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > 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. But I already had twm and xterm installed, apparently as a result of doing "pkg install xorg". After installing xorg and before installing xfce or xdm, I had started X using startx(1). That gave me a simple X session with twm and 3 xterm windows. It is surprising to me that I didn't get a similar default session after activating xdm. If the user really needs to create a .xsession file for xdm to be usable, it seems like this should be made more explicit in Section 6.7 of the Handbook. > > 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. Hmm. I don't see how to do this in the GUI or in the VirtualBox user manual (4.1.18). A web search suggests that I could use the Guest Additions (GuestControl) to bind some other key, and have that key generate the Ctrl+Alt+Fn sequence. Is that what you're referring to? thanks, mike