Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:22:10 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New question on Mate and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20170425142210.16ab619a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5793f2002bc6eff17b2831bede1056e6.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <07197ae8f00a48f5ea7d098fb75145ca.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170424224534.91448acb.freebsd@edvax.de> <5793f2002bc6eff17b2831bede1056e6.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:25:11 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Mon, April 24, 2017 16:45, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:10:10 -0400, James B. Byrne via > > freebsd-questions wrote: > >> How does one drop out of slim to the console? I installed FreeBSD-11 > >> on a spare laptop and I am having some difficulty logging on through > >> slim. I have installed mate and slim but when I run slim it prompts > >> for a login and then fails with 'unable to execute login'; or > >> something similar. > >> > >> However when this happens I do not know how to get out of the > >> graphical logon screen without rebooting the system. > > > > Solution A: switch consoles with Ctrl+Alt+PF1 / PF2 / PF3 / ... > > > > Solution B: do A, followed by "killall -9 slim" > > > > This of course doesn't work anymore when you're using sc "as" > > the console driver, so you must use "vt". This _might_ indtroduce > > new problems with character sizes, fonts, and locale support. :-) > > > > Sidenote: In normal text mode, you use Alt+PF1 / PF2 / PF3 / ... > > to switch between the virtual consoles, the "Print / Sys Rq" key > > can be used to iterate through the consoles. > > > > > > My usual practice on CentOS is to configure the host to boot into text > mode and then run startx from the console to start the graphical > desktop. This can also be done on FreeBSD. Both a display manager and the actual X session (running a window manager or a whole desktop environment) can be initiated from the text mode. > I have installed mate on the FreeBSD system but cannot seem > to hit upon the correct manner to start it. Well, it sort of starts > but what shows up is not recognisable as desktop. This is just > ignorance on my part. I had similar problems when I decided to use > mate instead of gnome when I was testing RHEL/CentOS7. I have recently switched an installation of a Gnome 2 "destroyed by update" to MATE (and slim instead of gdm), now ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession get honored as expected. Interestingly, some of the Gnome settings were "inherited", but others needed to be set up manually. > Does PF1 == F1 (function key 1) or does this refer to something else? Sorry, that's my typical "IBM speak": The name PF key refers to the correct term "programmable function key", but PF1 and F1 are exactly the same thing. Must be the result of using a keyboard where the actual labels were PF1, PF2, and so on... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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