Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Jan 20 16:55:08 UTC 2017


On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Turns out to be a case of not RTFM. I do not use a display manager. Instead, 
> I run startxfce4 from the console after logging in. The XFCE docs say to use 
> startxfce4 --with-ck-launch in this case:
>
> http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/advanced
>
> Things may work out of the box if you use a display manager.

I do not use a display manager either, not worth the effort for me. 
Just startx.

My .xinitrc has this:

   # WB: map the Zap combination
   setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

   exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch


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