Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:50:42 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140815194438.2a468e5f.freebsd@edvax.de> 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> <20140815194438.2a468e5f.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 08/15/14 12:44, 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 %
> Oh, and note that the first line "#!" is nonsense. Use "#!/bin/sh".
> Can probably be omitted.
>
> And you could try this:
>
> exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4
>
> This looks familiar to me. I prefer something simpler though. :-)
>
Good catch on the bad '#!' line, I fixed that & still nogo .... someone
later suggested some alterations to some of the xdm config files .... at
this point, I've pretty much given up on it, I just do a console login,
then type startx & all is well. I normally stay logged in for long
periods (weeks/months), so this doesn't come up often ....
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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