Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:43:42 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically Message-ID: <1357911822.3856.31.camel@q>
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Hi :) I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 and installed Xfce4 and GDM2 from ports. Without GDM I need to run startx manually to start Xfce. If I enable GDM, it will start automatically, it displays the user, but the input field to type the password is missing. There's no difference with or without a mounted proc, with or without "gnome_enable="YES". Perhaps I missed to mount proc and to enable GNOME at the same time, I'll try this later. Any hints are welcome. FWIW this might be related to the issue: Thunar doesn't mount devices, such as USB sticks. I only can log out, but restart and shutdown aren't available for Xfce, they are shadowed. I don't think it's related, but when I installed Xfce I got "gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.6: Needs cairo build with X11 support.", I build gtk-update-icon-cache and continued with Xfce after that, but missed to rebuild cairo. I later today will run # cd /usr/ports/graphics/cairo # make deinstall # make reinstall Do I need to reinstall gtk-update-icon-cache and Xfce too? The problem is, that I need the computer for work and building X, Xfce and GDM did take around 12 hours on a dual-core Athlon 2.1 GHz with 4 GB RAM, during this time I can't run Linux to work. It wasn't possible, resp. I wasn't able to automatically use the default configurations, btw. in this case an advantage, since I need to compile without pulseaudio support. Regards, Ralf
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