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Matthew45

So i installed xfce DE and after setting it up, to take effect i logged out/in and i got black screen with only movin cursor..i entered tty rebooted, same.. After third boot it loaded correctly..this happens often..what is the issue here? Xfce itself or something else. Nvidia drivers work as it should..everything is installed correctly by instructions..
 
Hello, I'm fairly new to FreeBSD, so my thoughts might be pedestrian or obvious to most... but when I've had troubles like that, my two solutions were:

1: It defaulted to the Wayland session in lightdm (or whatever display manager you use), and I had set up Xorg, so I just had to select X11 session when logging in.

2: I've been silly and have had typos on pretty much every step of Section 8.2.3-XFCE of the Handbook, particularly the sysrc commands, which then adds the typo to the /etc/rc.conf but it doesn't have a verification check if it makes sense... e.g.
# sysrc dvus_enable="YES" will ACTUALLY apend "dvus_enable" into rc.conf instead of the intended dbus_enable.

Hopefully you get some luck and have some success!
 
Matthew45 besides checking that you didn't miss anything when installing xfce (like installing xorg/xlibre, enabling dbus and /proc), and not selecting the wayland session on your login manager, also check dmesg and/or xorg log for errors.
 
fahrenheit said:
Matthew45 besides checking that you didn't miss anything when installing xfce (like installing xorg/xlibre, enabling dbus and /proc), and not selecting the wayland session on your login manager, also check dmesg and/or xorg log for errors.
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all those mentioned are installed..something is off with xfce..plasma worked perfectly..hmm ill try
 
I'm not having that problem personally.
Emrion said:
I would bet on the nvidia driver. Try another version than the one you installed.
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That's my guess, the only issues I have with XFCE is that sometimes the menus pop up on the wrong screen, which is annoying, but not that big of a deal. I'm using an AMD GPU and I haven't been having those problems.
 
I had problems with Xfce some time ago, before i installed FreeBSD i used ghostBSD and same thing was happening there, so nvidia could be a problem, cause i set everything correct, and with KDE (which i use again after horrible black screen issue on xfce) i have no issues..maybe with another version of xfce i wouldnt have problems but i wont risk it:D Now with KDE everything works fine..thank you guys for your help..
 
Matthew45 said:
I had problems with Xfce some time ago, before i installed FreeBSD i used ghostBSD and same thing was happening there, so nvidia could be a problem, cause i set everything correct, and with KDE (which i use again after horrible black screen issue on xfce) i have no issues..maybe with another version of xfce i wouldnt have problems but i wont risk it:D Now with KDE everything works fine..thank you guys for your help..
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One of the great things about FreeBSD is that you get so many choices of WM and can change as many times as you like.
 
Seemingly any of components in Xfce (or any other apps running on it) is waiting for something to respond and avoiding further (de-)initializations.

Have you tried switching to another vty and shutdown -r now from there?

In some cases, logout / login is insufficient. This may typically happen when any of the below applies.
  • Any shared object (dynamically linked library) that is updated is still in use (i.e., by any of services) and grabbed in memory, causing updated shared object loaded by newly invoked component conflicts with it.
  • Some changed configuration requires additional kernel module(s) to be loaded, but as of dependency chains between modules, doesn't work until the computer is restarted.
  • Any of loaded kernel modules is/are updated, but cannot unload it as it's still required by other kernel modules.
 
I tried to go into tty restart my machine and desktop loaded..but after 3 boot it happened again..so it is not every time that black screen shows..so i wonder if nvidia is the reason how it boots correctly, after second or third attempt..maybe i really miss something, or missed in setting xfce up..but if i did something wrong i wouldnt get into login manager at all it that case..either it shows graphical login screen or it dosent if xorg or other component isnt set up correctly..but again it could be nvidia as you guys are saying..
 
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