Re: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically

2013-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 21:03 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:54:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > If I make mcedit the default editor, could this cause serious issues, > > perhaps if upgrading the kernel and world? > > I'm also using it regularly: > > % echo $EDITOR >

Re: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically

2013-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:54:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If I make mcedit the default editor, could this cause serious issues, > perhaps if upgrading the kernel and world? I'm also using it regularly: % echo $EDITOR mcedit No problems so far. The only exception: The editor is

Re: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically

2013-01-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
In reply to: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248117.html Thank you, to enable "su", I run # pw user mod rocketmouse -G wheel Restart is enabled by $ cat ~/.xinitrc # /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch # cat /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/loca

Re: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically

2013-01-11 Thread Stephan Schindel
For 'su' to get working your user need to be a member of the group 'wheel': > pw groupmod wheel -m USER For shutdown/restart in Xfce read the post-installation instructions (pkg_info -D /var/db/pkg/xfce4-session*): > Install notice: > To be able to shutdown or reboot your system, you'll have to

Re: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically

2013-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 14:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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. PS: I can't run "su" from a X or Xfce terminal emula

Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically

2013-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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 m