Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:25:20 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env Message-ID: <20100305002520.c06d7d20.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <ed7803cf1003040030sca49614i6c4a87b479f3aa95@mail.gmail.com> References: <ed7803cf1003040030sca49614i6c4a87b479f3aa95@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:30:05 +0100, n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > Installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.0, xorg, configured xorg for my screen, > installed xdm. > After reboot I see a graphical login window. When entering username and > password, it seems to accept it, but immediatly present the graphical login > window again. (In console mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1) I can login at the login: > prompt with the > same username/password). > Has FreeSBD somewhere a default environment (in that case why does it not > appear after logging in at the > XDM graphical window) or do you still need to install a Desktop environment > (Gnome, KDE, Xfce) and is it > normal that after logging in at the XDM window, you are thrown out again.. As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Because neither X or FreeBSD itself do include a complete desktop environment (such as KDE, Gnome, Xfce), you need to install it yourself, and then make it available to your user using ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc respectively. If those files are not present, a default should be used by X. According to which version of X you have installed, those defaults could launch twm with some xterms (the default is somewhere in /usr/local/lib/X11, ex /usr/X11R6/lib/X11), or just recognize that X program initialisation is missing and then exit - which is still a bit strange, because the X server should run anyway, "without programs". Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for possible errors. What does happen if you don't run xdm, but instead log in with your user account and then run the "startx" command? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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