Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

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 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... :-(
>
>
>

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.

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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