FreeBSD 11.0 i386, XDM 1.1.11_6, XFCE 4.12_1 -- How to enable GUI shutdown and restart?

Bernt Hansson bah at bananmonarki.se
Fri Dec 30 11:39:02 UTC 2016


On 2016-12-30 05:32, David Christensen wrote:
> On 12/27/16 23:01, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>> You do have dbus_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf? Not sure if you need
>> hald_enable="YES" too.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>
> 2016-12-29 19:28:58 toor at t7400 ~
> # cat /etc/rc.conf
> hostname="t7400"
> ifconfig_bfe0="DHCP"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> powerd_enable="YES"
> # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
> dumpdev="AUTO"
> zfs_enable="YES"
>
> 2016-12-29 19:29:04 toor at t7400 ~
> # ll /etc/rc.conf.d
> total 9
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2 2016/09/28 20:41:10 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel  113 2016/12/27 19:20:28 ../
>
>
> Apparently, dbus is not enabled.  Add a file:
>
> 2016-12-29 19:29:17 toor at t7400 ~
> # echo 'dbus_enable="YES"' > /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus.conf
>
>
> shutdown -p, boot, login, Xfce mouse -> Log Out -> Shut Down and -> 
> Restart are still greyed out.
Dbus is installed? Think it comes with xfce but not sure.

If it does not work you have to work some magic with devd i think.


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