OpenBSD 6.5 Xorg Xfce4 Start Failure
Hi All,
Issue: When I start the graphical desktop using 'startxfce4' (under a normal user account), Xorg fails with: Quote:
Background: Lenovo x61s, OpenBSD 6.5 i386, I am manually starting the graphical desktop from the terminal as I prefer to start and stop the GUI instead of using a logon manager, xenodm is not started at boot. Xorg settings and Xfce settings (at the moment) are OOTB. I have this exact setup working properly on a Dell 131L laptop with an AMD (Turion) chipset under OpenBSD 6.4 i386. What I have done so far: the regular user belongs to the group 'wheel', /dev/ttyC4 is owned by user 'root', group 'wheel', as per the Xorg log file, I have searched wiki.x.org including the FAQ, KnowledgeBase and typical error messages, I also checked the group list in '/etc/groups' for any group that the regular user could be missing and other than the group '_X11' which I think is being used by Xorg itself while running. I did not find any other group of use, I have also searched here for a possible answer. Since this works perfectly under the 'root' user, it seems that it is a permission issue but all the permissions check out. There are also lots of internet posts that discuss running Xorg by a regular user which is not a member of the 'wheel' group. Have any ideas? TIA |
Starting with OpenBSD 6.5 (quoting from the Upgrade Guide) ....
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I used to use startx. Now I use xenodm and quite like it. Here's my .xsession file for XFCE.
Code:
/usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch |
Apologies,
I did not check the Upgrade Guide. I tried it and while, it does work, this represents a problem for me since once xenodm is launched, it takes over and it is no longer possible to slip back into full screen terminal mode. One can only logout from the Xfce session which brings back the xenodm login page. There is no way, that I found, to exit xenodm back to the terminal. |
Using Alt-Ctrl-F1 through Alt-Ctrl-F4 will take you to individual virtual consoles, outside of X. Alt-Ctrl-F1 maps to the system console. Alt-Ctrl-F5 will return you to your X session.
To add additional virtual consoles, see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html |
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