Fresh Installation Of FreeBSD 11.2--Mate Not Working Properly

[JD]

On 12/05/2018 09:06 PM, B J wrote:
> I've done some more tinkering and this is what I have so far:
>
> - I start with xterm when I run startx
>
> - the pull-down menus appear to work
>
> - I can change settings, such as the desktop background, through Control Center
>
> - the display still insists it's at 1280 x 1024 when it's supposed
> default to 1024 x 768, but I can change it with xrandr
>
> - at the suggestion of several sources, including what was on the URLs
> I sent, I added the following to /etc/fstab:
>
> proc  /proc  procfs  rw  0  0
>
> I'm not sure if that made any difference (I recall having to add
> something like that in earlier versions of FreeBSD/Gnome, but that
> didn't seem to be necessary for my other installations)
>
> - I'm able to run applications such as Firefox and VLC, but those were
> already installed and configured under Xfce
>
> - external drives, such as a USB stick, don't appear to mount

You need to install and enable autofs , which does the automounting.