desktop problem

[Seann Aswell]

Not sure you will have much luck with KDE5 on DragonFly, as it is very 
much a Linux oriented desktop environment. The PCBSD folks (now TrueOS) 
used to support KDE4, but eventually started work on a QT5 based BSD 
oriented desktop called Lumina, which does work well on DragonFly.

https://lumina-desktop.org/

Of course if anyone has actually attempted to get KDE5 to work on 
DragonFly, they will likely chime in...


On 2/19/19 11:14 PM, Jonathan Engwall wrote:
> Yes, it seems that dbus support is there but the directories which the 
> OS "cannot find" really are not there.
> I have installed dozens of packages with "pkg search <qt5 or 
> whatever>" followed by "pkg install <whatever>" that is not really the 
> issue.
> The issue is the login screen of KDE locks me out. I looked for the 
> launcher itself to tell it to dbus-launch with no real success.
> I installed KDE with mkdesktop as root. My last guess is that I can 
> launch KDE from a script in root. However there are several 
> directories which really do not exist.
> Jonathan Engwall
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 5:24 PM Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com 
> <mailto:dillon at backplane.com> wrote:
>
>     Make sure /etc/rc.conf has:
>
>     dbus_enable="YES"
>
>     You should be able to add and remove packages at-will with the
>     'pkg' program as root.  If it isn't on the system you can
>     bootstrap it with:
>
>     cd /usr
>     make pkg-bootstrap
>
>     -Matt
>
>     On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:46 PM Jonathan Engwall
>     <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com
>     <mailto:engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Downloading 5.4.1 now hoping for better results.
>         Any advice, suggestion, inquiry is welcome.
>         Jonathan Engwall
>
>         On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 2:06 PM Jonathan Engwall
>         <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com
>         <mailto:engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>             Also you should know that I am using it on virtualbox.
>
>             On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 1:52 PM Jonathan Engwall
>             <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com
>             <mailto:engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                 I have spent all day working on this, since 8 a.m. it
>                 is now 1:45. X11 and DBUS did not configure properly.
>                 Mkdesktop is the pkg I used to build KDE and now,
>                 because /var/run/dbus is literaly not there I cannot
>                 log in.
>                 I need to bypass the desktop to get console access. I
>                 have used the live image several times and made
>                 changes which ultimately have not produced results.
>                 I have changed the entry for tty8, I have written an
>                 .xinitrc, I have changed the .login and .login-config
>                 both to BAK.login. And I get nowhere.
>                 At this point I want to remove KDE, but I can't. Using
>                 the live image as root does not allow me to remove any
>                 packages.
>                 How can I get around the desktop login?
>                 Jonathan Engwall
>                 Also I have noticed that /etc/X11/ is empty
>

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