From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 17:46:22 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80CE39F3 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (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 4940121C6 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-19-81.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.81]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7FHkIJT031013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:46:18 -0500 Message-ID: <53EE48E1.2000107@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:52:33 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... References: <53EBE6D6.8090501@hiwaay.net> <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> <20140815194224.5e9fe5fd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140815194224.5e9fe5fd.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! 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: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:46:22 -0000 On 08/15/14 12:42, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:33:52 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 08/15/14 12:24, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:06 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>> open display: . >>> Huh? >>> >>> >>> >>>> Type 'xfce4-session --help' for usage. >>> Do you have "exec xfce4-session" in your user's ~/.xinitrc or >>> ~/.xsession file (last line)? >>> >>> >> [wam@kabini1, ~, 12:26:31pm] 364 % cat .xinitrc >> exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 >> [wam@kabini1, ~, 12:32:39pm] 365 % cat .xsession >> #! >> exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 >> [wam@kabini1, ~, 12:32:45pm] 366 % > Okay, both look correct. But... the error message reads: > > Type 'xfce4-session --help' for usage. > ^ > > So it's "xfce4-session" (with a hyphen)? Check if the > specified binary does actually exist. If I remember > correctly, the Xfce 4 session manager is _really_ > xfce4-session, not startxfce4, and in case of using > HAL, or... erm... was it > > exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch xfce4-session > > I'm not sure anymore, those "modern" desktop environments > can be very complicated during their continuous evolution. > On HAL-infected systems, I usually relapse to use Gnome 2 > instead of Xfce because the newer versions include too > many things that don't work anymore. And it's not that > Gnome works flawlessly out of the box either... :-( > > > XFCE runs AOK from the startx command after a console login, so I think everything is AOK w/ startxfce4 & the rest of the install .... the recommendations for these 2 files came straight from Freebsd.org/docs, i.e. I found them online on freebsd.org. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.