Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:57:25 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Monceaux <Kevin@RawFedDogs.net> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: slim(Simple LogIn Manager) problem Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0812100831340.1820@Blaidd-Drwg.RawFedDogs.net>
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FreeBSD Fans, After a recent install I'm having trouble with slim. The last time I installed FreeBSD on my home desktop box slim worked well. I'm running RELENG_7 with xorg, slim, etc., installed from an up-to-date ports tree. I created my xorg.conf file via xorgconfig, and also tried Xorg -config to see if it made any difference. Does any of the following symptoms sound familiar to anyone? If I start slim via /etc/ttys using: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/slim" xterm on secure I can sign on to slim but can't do anything after that. I use dwm as my window manager and when it first starts I normally have just a blank black screen, so I'm not sure if dwm is actually starting or not. pgrep says it's running. My .xinitrc has: xrdb ~/.Xresources xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr xsetroot -solid black unclutter & exec /home/dokpm0/bin/dwm It's clearing slim's background image, so I know it's at least getting to xsetroot -solid black. I tried setting DISPLAY and starting a urxvt terminal session from a virtual console. pgrep said urxvt was running but it didn't appear in my X session. If I disable slim in /etc/ttys and start it via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slim I can sign on and everything works except the mouse, and in terminal sessions I start my path is wrong. I failed to make a note of the exact path I'm getting, and I'm working remotely right now, but I think it started with: ./:/bin: ... login.conf has: :path=/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin ~/bin:\ as the default path. One of the the missing paths is ~/bin, and ./ shouldn't be in the path, but is. To make things more interesting, if I stop slim, sign on to a virtual console, and use startx to, well, start X everything works. My mouse works, my path is correct, etc. Has anyone seen a similar slim problem? The path problem is easy enough to work around via an entry in my ~/.zshenv file. With dwm I can do almost everything via the keyboard, but a functional mouse does come in handy occasionally. :-) Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!
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