Starting slim

matthewp

matthewp

I followed these directions to install slim: http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/slim

Except that I used pkg install slim.

I added slim_enable="YES" to my rc.conf and restarted the VM expecting the login prompt to show up but I still get the tty login.

How do I start slim from the command line? Is there a start-slim or something? An init script I can use maybe?
 
Yes, this is correct so far, but did you install and configure Xorg? You can look up most problems in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
 
Why would I have to separately install Xorg? Isn't slim dependent on it? I also installed mate-desktop which is dependent on it.
 
Ok, now I did a pkg install xorg and restarted and I get the slim login prompt but my mouse and keyboard aren't working, so I'm guessing something is misconfigured. How can I get to a tty from here? ctrl+alt+1,2,3 aren't working.

edit: nm, it's alt+f1,f2, etc
 
Ok, so I got xorg configured and am able to use mouse/keyboard in slim. But when I type in my user/pass I get:

Code: 
Failed to execute login command.

I don't see anything in the xorg log to indicate an issue.
 
I recognize all the problems which you mentioned here step-by-step. :)

To be a real help to others you should also mention what was the problem and how you solved it.
 
Hi nakal, the essential problem is that pkg install slim didn't install all of it's required packages, that is it did not install Xorg. Same is true for mate-desktop. So I think that might be a bug with those packages.
 
It seems like a bug, but really is not. Most X programs don't depend on a particular X server because the user may want to pick from one of several. Or they may not want to install X on their system at all because they'll be running it remotely.
 
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