[Midnightbsd-users] post GUI install seems broken

[Lucas Holt]

> On Jan 15, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Chris <midnightbsd at bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
> I performed an install of 2.0.3 AMD64 yesterday from the
> USB image. The install seemed to emit an inordinate number
> of console error messages, which largely corrupted the
> screen (dialog?). These messages occurred during the disk
> partition/layout portion of the install. In the end, they
> appeared to be harmless, as the install went as intended.
> The first-boot prompted the install of a DE to which I
> answered yes. The download/install went w/o incident.
> save complaints of missing info files. mlogind was
> added to rc.conf(5). A reboot brought up the mlogind
> login screen. Entering username && password returned a
> black screen. Rebooting single-user and reading
> /var/log/mlogind.log revealed that apparently dbus
> wasn't enabled. Added dbus_enable="YES" to rc.conf(5).
> Bounced the box && entered username && password in
> mlogind. This resulted in ERROR: can't execute login command.
> Hmm. A look at /usr/local/etc/mlogind.conf reveals that
> an ~/.xinitrc is REQUIRED in order to present a DE
> after login. Well exactly *what* must be added to .xinitrc?
> It *appears* that mate is installed. But a search for
> startmate, mate-session, and other mate related commands
> returned nothing. So I simply performed a: mport install xfce
> followed by a: echo startxfce4 >~/.xinitrc
> Bounced the box, (successfully) logged in via mlogind and all
> seemed OK. *except* that attempting to change the desktop
> image reveals that the user has no access to the filesystem
> in control-panel. You can see the xfce/mate/gnome folders.
> But you can NOT open them -- even as root. I don't experience
> this problem from the console.
> Are there any correctly working versions of MidnightBSD?
> 
> Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
> 
> --Chris
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I wanted to clear up some things with this. First, the background selection in xfce.  This is how xfce works.  There is a workaround. 
Run thunar
go to the parent folder of the one you want to use
click once over the one you want
drag the folder to the left to include it in your preferred folders
run the settings app and select desktop
chose the folder on the side and hit open
now you can select the images. 

Alternatively, you can place the images in a sub folder of /usr/local/share/backgrounds and then select it from the side.  I agree this is super clunky. 

As for the .xinitrc issue, I just created a default .xinitrc file with sessions support in the master branch in midnightbsd. This will get installed with new users in the next release.  
I’ve also modified the mlogind project to use the /usr/local/share/xsessions folder now which will allow you to cycle through different sessions by hitting f1 key.  



Lucas Holt
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