Corrections to handbook/x11-wm.html

Brandon J. Wandersee brandon.wandersee at gmail.com
Wed May 3 14:28:13 UTC 2017


Paul Hoffman writes:

> Greetings. The description in "5.7.3. Xfce" is incomplete, at least for 
> installing with "pkg". You also need "pkg install xinit" and "pkg 
> install Xorg", at least for FreeBSD 11.

The instructions for installing Xfce follow the instructions for
installing and configuring a basic Xorg setup. If you're reading the
chapter in order, there shouldn't be any problems.

> You also need dbus_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, like for KDE.

I believe the instructions account for that, too. DBus should be started
by ConsoleKit, which is started when running `startx` if your ~/.xinitrc
file contains the line printed in that section of the Handbook.

> Also, to start, you need "startxfce4", not "startx".

`startx` is part of x11/xinit, and executes whatever is present in the
~/.xinitrc file. Again, if you followed the instructions in the order
they're presented, `startxfce4` should already be in ~/.xinitrc, and
`startx` should work just fine.

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