Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/17/14 08:08, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:44 PM, William A. Mahaffey III 
> <wam at hiwaay.net <mailto:wam at hiwaay.net>> wrote:
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>     On 08/17/14 04:08, flo at snakeoilproductions.net
>     <mailto:flo at snakeoilproductions.net> wrote:
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>         Greetings,
>
>         On 2014-08-15 17:53, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>                Xdm uses .xinitrc to start a "something" right? Please
>             show your
>                .xinitrc
>                I guess you're trying to use xfce, have you verified
>             that all required
>                packages are installed ( xfce, xorg-server,
>             xf86-video*, xf86-input*?
>                What graphics hw are you using? Which xorg-stack ( new
>             /old)?
>                Are you using a xorg.conf or using default
>             on-the-fly-config?
>                Best regards
>                Andreas
>
>                OK, here goes, see attached. Whenever I startx from the
>             command line
>                after a console login, XFCE starts up & operates AOK,
>             so I would guess
>                the install is OK. Gfx hw is a jaguar kabini CPU, w/
>             GPU on die w/ CPU.
>                gfx is too new for X.org support, so I am using the
>             vesa driver.
>                .xinitrc:  exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
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>         Maybe I'm missing the point here entirely, but xdm uses
>         $HOME/.xsession.
>         A missing .xsession has quite the same symptoms, and since
>         XFCE works fine after startx,
>         which indeed uses $HOME/.xinitrc, you might try
>         % echo 'exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4' >$HOME/.xsession
>         and then restart xdm.
>
>         Sincerely,
>
>
>         florian
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>     Long thread here, you could backtracck it if you're sufficiently
>     bored/motivated .... short answer is whenever I use the .xsession
>     (i.e. xdm managing the login), it doesn't work, pretty much no
>     matter what I tried .... I'm back to console login followed by
>     startx, works for now ....
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>
>     -- 
>
>             William A. Mahaffey III
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> Have you tried to use truss/dtrace to see what happens when startxfce4 
> is run?
>
> Or perhaps just editing startxfce4 script to have #!/bin/sh -x . The 
> startxfce4 script seems to run the commands in xinitrc, found in 
> .config/xfce4/xinitrc $HOME/.xfce4/.xinitrc or 
> /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc . Have a look at it, it might help 
> you in your investigation.
>
> If you wish to pursue the further, that is.
>
> Best regards
> Andreas

Thx, I'm OK for now ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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