Trouble running KDE or Gnome

[Bernard Mentink]

Thanks, maybe that sort of instruction should be added to the docs ... ;)

I have managed to get KDE to boot using .xinitrc, but no joy with any of
the display managers including KDM.
WIth KDM after I set the session, all I get is a blank window with a white
console window top/left.

Also, I can not get Gnome3 to run at all ....

Cheers,
Bernie

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Zachary Crownover <
zachary.crownover at gmail.com> wrote:

> pw groupadd video; pw groupmod video -M youruser
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> to add .... The instructions are somewhat confusing and in-accurate ..
>>
>> For example, it tells you in the Xorg setup to add your user to the
>> "video" group, but that group does not exist in the standard install .. and
>> no mention of how to create it ..
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> No, some other ones from the website/handbook ..
>>>
>>> However, when I follow those instructions and add the missing
>>> hald_enable, it is worse ... X just crashes now ...
>>>
>>> I have never had so many problems getting X/Gnome running on Linux, so
>>> am a bit concerned for this platform ...
>>>
>>> (I also hated the tcsh shell default with no command completion, and it
>>> took me awhile to find out how to change it out for zsh)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:51 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/25/2016 4:51 AM, Bernard Mentink wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> HI All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am having issues following the rather sparse instructions for getting
>>>>> the desktop operational with either Gnome or KDE.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Were you using these instructions?
>>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html
>>>>
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>
> Zachary Crownover
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