Trouble running KDE or Gnome

[Zachary Crownover]

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:
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>> 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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Sincerely,

Zachary Crownover
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