From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Sep 23 15:19:41 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2378F7B7A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:19:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.107.128.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46cSfj2CN2z48JW for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:19:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AF17473FE for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (doug@localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x8NFDmen030367 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:13:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id x8NFDmCD030364 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:13:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:13:48 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: freeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Can't get graphical desktop environment on FBSD12 In-Reply-To: <20190919220523.2be868c0.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <20190919214035.f617cae7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20190919220523.2be868c0.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46cSfj2CN2z48JW X-Spamd-Bar: ++++++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=fail (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of doug@safeport.com does not designate 204.107.128.30 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=doug@safeport.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [8.66 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_SPF_FAIL(1.00)[-all:c]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.99)[0.987,0]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[safeport.com]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; VIOLATED_DIRECT_SPF(3.50)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; FROM_NO_DN(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[30.128.107.204.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11288, ipnet:204.107.128.0/24, country:US]; IP_SCORE(2.18)[ip: (5.78), ipnet: 204.107.128.0/24(2.89), asn: 11288(2.25), country: US(-0.05)]; GREYLIST(0.00)[pass,body] X-Spam: Yes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:19:41 -0000 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.