Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 07:02:55 -0500 From: Matt Bettinger <iamatt@gmail.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <CAEeRwNVq85wVQ=h62t0Us4MLyR1gojp2ovJowDHR8KnxTwCdww@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> 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> <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net>
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25 emails to use a FreeBSD desktop... Just use windows or linux On Aug 16, 2014 6:44 AM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war > ever devised by man." > -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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