Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:52:33 -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: <53EE48E1.2000107@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140815194224.5e9fe5fd.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> <20140815194224.5e9fe5fd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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
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