Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online ....

[Polytropon]

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 at kabini1, ~, 12:26:31pm] 364 % cat .xinitrc
> exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 12:32:39pm] 365 % cat .xsession
> #!
> exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
> [wam at 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... :-(



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Polytropon
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Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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