Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:13:48 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: freeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't get graphical desktop environment on FBSD12 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909231105330.13599@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20190919220523.2be868c0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <a857d6f8-d807-4679-bf16-e65dbd53c849@www.fastmail.com> <20190919214035.f617cae7.freebsd@edvax.de> <CADqw_gKExEO_=XnnAx86xhETuFp84QPR=ZdEtsQQvGb4JJAWLw@mail.gmail.com> <20190919220523.2be868c0.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:50:55 +0200, Michael Schuster wrote: >> Perhaps this is outdated: I seem to remember having to enable something in >> /etc/ttys... Maybe that's still the case? > > No, this isn't needed for desktop environments that have their > own _enable flag for /etc/rc.conf (same for display managers). > In ye olden days, /etc/ttys contained a line like > > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > to start xdm. Things like gdm or slim do not require this anymore. > And probably nobody (except maybe me) uses xdm nowadays... ;-) And me, so there are at least two of us. :) No extra dependencies Slim should be named [noso]slim IMO. A few xorg's ago I had some rebooting issues with xdm and tried both. Neither helped with whatever was my issue.
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