Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 18:41:21 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: "B J" <va6bmj@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fresh Installation Of FreeBSD 11.2--Mate Not Working Properly Message-ID: <20181204184121.8e58bbf1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <d3dd8218b4f5f6e46fc8234061b6bb6a.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <mailman.96.1543924802.46448.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <d3dd8218b4f5f6e46fc8234061b6bb6a.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 09:30:41 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: > > > On Mon, December 3, 2018 21:25, B J wrote: > > > I re-installed Mate and modified the installation as you suggested. > > After running "startx", followed by "mate-session" in the terminal, I > > got a number of messages, including the following: > > For various reasons I have always desired to login to a console > session before starting a GDM. I wasn't able to get gdm working with anything than Gnome (and it completely ignores ~/.xsession, forcing you to manually configure "Autostart" applications for each user), so I replaced it with slim. Personally, I prefer xdm with an ~/.xsession -> ~/.xinitrc "cascade" so plain startx will still work. ;-) > On my FreeBSD-11.2p4 desktop I have > this in ~/.xinitrc, which seems to work for me: > > ck-launch-session mate-session Yes, I have the same setting on a reference system, except that the line is exec ck-launch-session mate-session to make sure X will shut down (and maybe return to gdm or slim) when the controlling MATE session has been terminated. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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