ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages
released
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 09:49:04 UTC 2010
On 8/7/10, Elias Chrysocheris <eliaschr at cha.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> Dear Antonio,
>
> I thing you've messed things up a little bit. The distribution is for XFCE
> and
> of cource you have to use xdm instead of gdm. Installing gdm in your system
> also installs much of GNOME as you can see by running
>
> cd /usr/ports/x11/gdm
> make all-depends-list
>
> By looking carefully in this list you will find out that you install many
> ports
> of GNOME, like:
>
> /usr/ports/misc/gnome-mime-data
> /usr/ports/textproc/gnome-doc-utils
> /usr/ports/devel/gconf2
> /usr/ports/x11/gnome-desktop
> /usr/ports/x11/gnome-menus
> /usr/ports/x11/gnome-panel
> /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs
> /usr/ports/x11/libgnome
> /usr/ports/x11/gnome-session
> /usr/ports/security/gnome-keyring
> ... (there are many many many more!)
>
> There is nothing wrong with the distribution. If you exactly do what the
> README file says you are goiing to have a valid system running XFCE. If you
> try
> to add gdm then you also install much of GNOME also, so you'll not have an
> XFCE-only system.
>
> Best regards
> Elias
Elias, Rocky & et all
I have found a solution not depending on any of those xdm/gdm/kdm.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14212
The page with instructions was here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mz7kcObFEP0J:keyhell.org/advices.html+freebsd+autologin
Instructions used:
FreeBSD
autologin
How to make some user login automatically?
1. Add to the /etc/gettytab file the following strings:
test:\
:al=test:ht:np:sp#115200:
test:\ - entry name, autologin will use this username;
al=test - autologin username;
ht - terminal has real tabs;
np - 8-bit chars;
(optional) sp#115200 - line speed;
2. Edit /etc/ttys file:
ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty test" cons25 on secure
Usual Pc changed with test.
Then created file /etc/rc.local
with
su - user_to_be_logged_in -c startx
I had found a similar solution for Slackware 13.1 with Xfce. Thanks
to all for your help.
Regards,
Antonio
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