Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:49:42 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm questions Message-ID: <20141126194942.382a3c98.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <16052.1417026643@allegro.localdomain> References: <16052.1417026643@allegro.localdomain>
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:30:43 -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > 1. I tried running xdm without setting ~/.xsession to run Xfce. Upon > logging in, I expected to get a simple session with twm and/or an xterm. No, because twm needs to be installed additionally, as it's not part of the xdm package. Furthermore, ~/.xsession needs to be set accordingly - I'm not sure the system's default xsession file will even call twm. > Instead, I got bounced back to the xdm login screen. The problem was > that the Xsession script wanted to run xsm, but that package wasn't > installed. Shouldn't the xdm package have a dependency on the xsm > package? Basically xsm isn't needed, it's neither a compile-time nor a run-time dependency. But if the configuration default relies on it, it might be at least justified to inform the user about that fact in the post-installation message text. > 2. I had to reboot single-user in order to troubleshoot and fix the xsm > issue. I had expected to be able to use Alt+Fn to switch to a > non-xdm-controlled virtual terminal, but Alt+F1 etc. have no effect when > X is running. I have since reviewed the FAQ, and I now understand that > with X running, I should have used Ctrl+Alt+F1, not Alt+F1. If I remember correctly, in new FreeBSD + vt + X, this also doesn't work anymore. :-( > Unfortunately, Ctrl+Alt+F1 causes the VirtualBox *host* to switch to a > different virtual terminal. Is it possible to configure FreeBSD to use > a key combination other than Ctrl+Alt+Fn? Probably yes, but you can also configure VirtualBox to accept and relay those keys "as is" to the emulated environment. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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