Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:01:18 -0800 From: Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm questions Message-ID: <17096.1417032078@allegro.localdomain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:49:42 %2B0100." <20141126194942.382a3c98.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > 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. But I already had twm and xterm installed, apparently as a result of doing "pkg install xorg". After installing xorg and before installing xfce or xdm, I had started X using startx(1). That gave me a simple X session with twm and 3 xterm windows. It is surprising to me that I didn't get a similar default session after activating xdm. If the user really needs to create a .xsession file for xdm to be usable, it seems like this should be made more explicit in Section 6.7 of the Handbook. > > 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. Hmm. I don't see how to do this in the GUI or in the VirtualBox user manual (4.1.18). A web search suggests that I could use the Guest Additions (GuestControl) to bind some other key, and have that key generate the Ctrl+Alt+Fn sequence. Is that what you're referring to? thanks, mike
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