Solved Attempting to use Cinnamon as WM

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Aran

Want: Cinnamon to use as my WM
Have: XCFE4 - meh it's ok, it works with stability but not grace.
What happens:
I added the following to my ~/.xinitrc
exec /usr/local/bin/cinnamon
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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | nc termbin.com 9999
My xorg.conf
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Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Right now I'm seeing a blank desktop, panel at bottom, no icons for anything and a screen resolution with fonts so small I have to get 1' from the TV to read what little there is.
 
bsduck said:
Maybe try to exec cinnamon-session instead of cinnamon.
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13.1-BETA3 that definitely doesn't work for me. These ones work.

Code: 
$ cat .xinitrc
# exec ck-launch-session mate-session
 exec /usr/local/bin/cinnamon
# exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session
# exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch
$

Still some bugs, though.

Code: 
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:42Z Cinnamon.AppSystem.get_default() started in 74 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:42Z loading default theme
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:42Z loaded at Wed Mar 30 2022 05:12:42 GMT+1000 (AEST)
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:42Z ExtensionSystem started in 1 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:42Z DeskletManager started in 1 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:42Z SearchProviderManager started in 1 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet show-desktop@cinnamon.org in 30 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet removable-drives@cinnamon.org in 4 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet recent@cinnamon.org in 11 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet recent@cinnamon.org in 0 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Role locked: tray
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet systray@cinnamon.org in 4 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet calendar@cinnamon.org in 17 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet favorites@cinnamon.org in 5 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet on-screen-keyboard@cinnamon.org in 2 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet printers@cinnamon.org in 14 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Role locked: notifications
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet notifications@cinnamon.org in 8 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet slideshow@cinnamon.org in 6 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet user@cinnamon.org in 10 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet trash@cinnamon.org in 6 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet windows-quick-list@cinnamon.org in 4 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet keyboard@cinnamon.org in 12 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet xapp-status@cinnamon.org in 3 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet power@cinnamon.org in 15 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Role locked: panellauncher
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet panel-launchers@cinnamon.org in 26 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet grouped-window-list@cinnamon.org in 6 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet window-list@cinnamon.org in 26 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet sound@cinnamon.org in 28 ms
error t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z
[network@cinnamon.org]: Requiring NM, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'NM' (any version) not found
[network@cinnamon.org]: Error importing applet.js from network@cinnamon.org
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Loaded applet menu@cinnamon.org in 156 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z AppletManager started in 435 ms
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Cinnamon took 662 ms to start
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Adding systray: input-method (24x24px)
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:43Z Resized input-method with normalized size (24x24px)
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:48Z Adding systray: hp-systray (24x24px)
info t=2022-03-30T05:12:48Z Resized hp-systray with normalized size (24x24px)

Google is not helping me sort the network-manager applet problem. pkg installer says it is all there.

So network-manager is MIA. Users and Groups non-functional presumably permissions somewhere. Date and time applet won't read time zone locality - presumably also permission somewhere. HP printer setup won't read PPD file despite me having permissions. Presumably cinnamon is using some other user id....need some clues....


Code: 
$ cat /etc/passwd
# $FreeBSD$
#
root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533:Tty Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533:KMem Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13:Games pseudo-user:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8:News Subsystem:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
sshd:*:22:22:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
mailnull:*:26:26:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53:Bind Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
unbound:*:59:59:Unbound DNS Resolver:/var/unbound:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:*:62:62:Packet Filter pseudo-user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
_pflogd:*:64:64:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
_dhcp:*:65:65:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/local/libexec/uucp/uucico
pop:*:68:6:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
auditdistd:*:78:77:Auditdistd unprivileged user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
ntpd:*:123:123:NTP Daemon:/var/db/ntp:/usr/sbin/nologin
_ypldap:*:160:160:YP LDAP unprivileged user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
hast:*:845:845:HAST unprivileged user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
tests:*:977:977:Unprivileged user for tests:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
me:*:1001:1001:me me:/home/me:/bin/sh
_tss:*:601:601:TCG Software Stack user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
messagebus:*:556:556:D-BUS Daemon User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
avahi:*:558:558:Avahi Daemon User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
polkitd:*:565:565:Polkit Daemon User:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
cups:*:193:193:Cups Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
colord:*:970:970:colord color management daemon:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
cyrus:*:60:60:the cyrus mail server:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
pulse:*:563:563:PulseAudio System User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
webcamd:*:145:145:Webcamd user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
gdm:*:92:92:GNOME Display Manager:/usr/local/etc/gdm/home:/usr/sbin/nologin
plex:*:972:972:Plex Media Server:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
mysql:*:88:88:MySQL Daemon:/var/db/mysql:/usr/sbin/nologin
saned:*:194:194:SANE Scanner Daemon:/nonexistent:/bin/sh

$
 
Bluey said:
So network-manager is MIA. Users and Groups non-functional presumably permissions somewhere. Date and time applet won't read time zone locality - presumably also permission somewhere. HP printer setup won't read PPD file despite me having permissions. Presumably cinnamon is using some other user id....need some clues....
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HP printer via HPLIP requires /etc/rc.conf to contain cupsd_enable="YES".

gnome_enable="YES" OTOH stops GDM from running at all. My current guess is that functionality of gnome_enable to access restricted system settings by Gnome and Cinnamon applets is required, but broken.

Slim is less functional than GDM. XFCE4 has no access to restricted system settings. So plugging on with Cinnamon. Netflix works! https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/netflix.62486/post-561944
 
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