Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:42:24 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <20140815194224.5e9fe5fd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> References: <53EBE6D6.8090501@hiwaay.net> <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net>
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:33:52 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > On 08/15/14 12:24, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:06 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> open display: . > > Huh? > > > > > > > >> Type 'xfce4-session --help' for usage. > > Do you have "exec xfce4-session" in your user's ~/.xinitrc or > > ~/.xsession file (last line)? > > > > > > [wam@kabini1, ~, 12:26:31pm] 364 % cat .xinitrc > exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 > [wam@kabini1, ~, 12:32:39pm] 365 % cat .xsession > #! > exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 > [wam@kabini1, ~, 12:32:45pm] 366 % Okay, both look correct. But... the error message reads: Type 'xfce4-session --help' for usage. ^ So it's "xfce4-session" (with a hyphen)? Check if the specified binary does actually exist. If I remember correctly, the Xfce 4 session manager is _really_ xfce4-session, not startxfce4, and in case of using HAL, or... erm... was it exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch xfce4-session I'm not sure anymore, those "modern" desktop environments can be very complicated during their continuous evolution. On HAL-infected systems, I usually relapse to use Gnome 2 instead of Xfce because the newer versions include too many things that don't work anymore. And it's not that Gnome works flawlessly out of the box either... :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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