Trouble running KDE or Gnome

[Bernard Mentink]

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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