Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:10:22 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <20140815201022.fe9dc564.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <53EE48E1.2000107@hiwaay.net> References: <53EBE6D6.8090501@hiwaay.net> <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> <20140815194224.5e9fe5fd.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE48E1.2000107@hiwaay.net>
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:52:33 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > XFCE runs AOK from the startx command after a console login, so I think > everything is AOK w/ startxfce4 & the rest of the install .... the > recommendations for these 2 files came straight from Freebsd.org/docs, > i.e. I found them online on freebsd.org. By using startx, ~/.xinitrc is being used. But if you use a display manager (usually xdm), this file is ignored and ~/.xsession is used instead. To avoid the "two files problem" and additionally make sure your C shell settings survive in X, use the following "cascading approach": Content of ~/.xsession: #!/bin/csh source ~/.cshrc exec ~/.xinitrc Make sure ~/.cshrc exists; if it's ~/.tcshrc, adjust the file name accordingly. Maybe specify #!/bin/tcsh. But I think this is not needed, even on newer FreeBSD versions, as it's tcsh anyway, and it has kept naming compatibility to the "old" csh. Content of ~/.xinitrc: #!/bin/sh # ... your other startup initializers here ... exec startxfce4 The first line of .xinitrc here is optional. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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