Thanks for the update. I'd kind of forgotten this question. I'm currently not actively using FreeBSD. When I find some time I'll try and test if things work now and update the thread.
I've recently installed FreeBSD 8.1 next to PCBSD 8.1 on a separate hard drive.
So far all on FreeBSD is installed through ports, PCBSD I'd done through packages and I only compiled/updated the ports I could.
At the moment on FreeBSD I use xdm to login to my Openbox-session with fbPanel through...
Too bad, it didn't do all updates for some reason but felt it had done all it could. I rebooted the machine and the menu still closes.
Will try to do an update of only the dependencies of lxpanel and maybe some other components of LXDE. Tips are still appreciated.
I know, I know, RTFM. :-)
Too bad it's so big, close to 1000 pages, depending on format.
I've printed parts of it now to read while traveling by train to work.
I'm curious what it's like to build (parts of) my OS from source.
I'm also considering looking into Gentoo.
One thing is obvious...
Thanks for the caution.
For me PCBSD was just a quick way to get FreeBSD up and running.
I'm thinking very much to try things again but this time using FreeBSD as my starting point. Last time I tried this (FreeBSD 8.0) all I got was a terminal, for some reason I didn't get X (no xorg, startx...
I've installed the latest version of lxde-meta from an updated ports collection in a clean install of PCBSD 8.1.
All works well except the menu's, both the "start menu" (sorry for the Windows terminology) and also when I tried to add applications to the what's it called, next to this start...
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