{"id":55,"date":"2017-08-07T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nixgeek.org\/?p=55"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:28:37","slug":"install-xfce-on-freebsd-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/install-xfce-on-freebsd-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Install XFCE on FreeBSD 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following will show how to install XFCE on FreeBSD 11. Before we get started, I&#8217;d like to note that I will be using the vesa driver as that is currently working for my installation over the named intel driver.<\/p>\n<p>Install XFCE using the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\r\npkg update &amp;&amp; pkg upgrade\r\npkg install xorg xf86-video-vesa xfce slim\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>We install slim above as XFCE doesn&#8217;t have its own display manager for logging into a desktop environment.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we edit the \/etc\/rc.conf and add the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\r\nmoused_enable=\"YES\"\r\ndbus_enable=\"YES\"\r\nhald_enable=\"YES\"\r\nslim_enable=\"YES\"\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Inside your user&#8217;s home directory, create a file called .xinitrc and add the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\r\n\/usr\/local\/bin\/xfce4-session\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Make sure that the .xinitrc is owned by the user before rebooting. If so, reboot and log into the XFCE desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following will show how to install XFCE on FreeBSD 11. Before we get started, I&#8217;d like to note that I will be using the vesa driver as that is currently working for my installation over the named intel driver. Install XFCE using the following: pkg update &amp;&amp; pkg upgrade pkg install xorg xf86-video-vesa xfce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nixgeek.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}