<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 15, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Chris <<a href="mailto:midnightbsd@bsdforge.com" class="">midnightbsd@bsdforge.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I performed an install of 2.0.3 AMD64 yesterday from the<br class="">USB image. The install seemed to emit an inordinate number<br class="">of console error messages, which largely corrupted the<br class="">screen (dialog?). These messages occurred during the disk<br class="">partition/layout portion of the install. In the end, they<br class="">appeared to be harmless, as the install went as intended.<br class="">The first-boot prompted the install of a DE to which I<br class="">answered yes. The download/install went w/o incident.<br class="">save complaints of missing info files. mlogind was<br class="">added to rc.conf(5). A reboot brought up the mlogind<br class="">login screen. Entering username && password returned a<br class="">black screen. Rebooting single-user and reading<br class="">/var/log/mlogind.log revealed that apparently dbus<br class="">wasn't enabled. Added dbus_enable="YES" to rc.conf(5).<br class="">Bounced the box && entered username && password in<br class="">mlogind. This resulted in ERROR: can't execute login command.<br class="">Hmm. A look at /usr/local/etc/mlogind.conf reveals that<br class="">an ~/.xinitrc is REQUIRED in order to present a DE<br class="">after login. Well exactly *what* must be added to .xinitrc?<br class="">It *appears* that mate is installed. But a search for<br class="">startmate, mate-session, and other mate related commands<br class="">returned nothing. So I simply performed a: mport install xfce<br class="">followed by a: echo startxfce4 >~/.xinitrc<br class="">Bounced the box, (successfully) logged in via mlogind and all<br class="">seemed OK. *except* that attempting to change the desktop<br class="">image reveals that the user has no access to the filesystem<br class="">in control-panel. You can see the xfce/mate/gnome folders.<br class="">But you can NOT open them -- even as root. I don't experience<br class="">this problem from the console.<br class="">Are there any correctly working versions of MidnightBSD?<br class=""><br class="">Thank you for all your time, and consideration.<br class=""><br class="">--Chris<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Midnightbsd-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Midnightbsd-users@midnightbsd.org" class="">Midnightbsd-users@midnightbsd.org</a><br class="">https://www.midnightbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/midnightbsd-users<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wanted to clear up some things with this. First, the background selection in xfce. This is how xfce works. There is a workaround. </div><div class="">Run thunar</div><div class="">go to the parent folder of the one you want to use</div><div class="">click once over the one you want</div><div class="">drag the folder to the left to include it in your preferred folders</div><div class="">run the settings app and select desktop</div><div class="">chose the folder on the side and hit open</div><div class="">now you can select the images. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class="">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. </div><br class=""><div class="">
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