Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/16/14 07:02, Matt Bettinger wrote:


Touche :-/ .... Actually, 20-ish of Linux is part of the problem, lotta 
stuff to unlearn or relearn ....


> 25 emails to use a FreeBSD desktop...  Just use windows or linux
>
> On Aug 16, 2014 6:44 AM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net 
> <mailto:wam at 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 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 %
>
>         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
>
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>
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	William A. Mahaffey III

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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.