The state of FreeBSD desktop

[Cath O'Deray]

Thanks again, Friend Of Jolly Devil.

Another poll (this one is not multiple choice):

Do you run FreeBSD as desktop os?

 

[drhowarddrfine]

grahamperrin As if that poll means anything to anybody. It does not.

 

[Friend Of Jolly Devil]

As if that poll means anything to anybody. It does not.

Thank you for your most precious and kind comment, much appreciated.

Nobody.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Another poll (this one is not multiple choice):

Voting closed in /r/freebsd with twenty-nine percent of 597 respondents making desktop use of FreeBSD on their main computer:

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Friend Of Jolly Devil thanks again for the poll here.

For the benefit of readers who may be new to FreeBSD Forums:

• the poll at the head of this page is still open
• there's also a poll about preferred desktop environments and window managers …

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Voting closed in /r/freebsd

This means nothing and has no value. There is no confirmation of the votes and the voters are mostly nonsense users.

 

[Vull]

This whole nonsense thread could readily be moved to another forum where most of us would have no access to it.

If you want. It's up to you.

 

[Beastie7]

Has anyone had success running GNOME? Last time i've toyed with it (ver. 3.36 I believe) I had issues with GDM failing miserably. How did the port maintainers manage to handle systemd dependencies anyway?

 

[Deleted member 56028]

Has anyone had success running GNOME? Last time i've toyed with it (ver. 3.36 I believe) I had issues with GDM failing miserably. How did the port maintainers manage to handle systemd dependencies anyway?

AFAIK, gentoo have an effort to use gnome without systemd, and not so long ago, consolekit was part of this effort, maybe it's where they get the ideas?

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… GDM failing miserably. …

Freeze-frame effect? Like, frame-by-frame for each switch away from, then back to, ttyv8?

 

[Beastie7]

I can't find the thread but I had an issue where logging into GDM would throw a weird error and lock up. Then the widgets would become unresponsive.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

I can't find the thread but I had an issue where logging into GDM would throw a weird error and lock up.

You're present here:

GNOME 3 locking after login

I am running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. After I login to GNOME 3, it locks the screen. Then when I enter my password, it says authentication failure. Then when I try and enter my password again, I can't enter my password - I type but nothing shows up. What could be causing this problem?

forums.freebsd.org

– not easily found. This was memorable:

• FreeBSD bug 256454 – x11/gdm: No users shown in login screen, and unable to unlock once locked

– then I sought 256454 to find the topic.

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For me, the show-stopper to testing GNOME is probably this:

• FreeBSD bug 257810 – x11/gnome3(-lite) & x11/gdm lags significantly on amdgpu

 

[Geezer]

+1 for didn't vote.