Other Virtua Machine with CDE

[psmitty0227]

I've finally got my VirtualBox FreeBSD VM set up and am strongly considering throwing CDE on it as my desktop of choice I'd most likely couple CDE with XDM.

The only Catch-22 is that I've currently got a VM that i want to use for said setup configured with the VirtualBox-ose-additions-nox11 port installed. So I'm possibly looking at needing to compile the VirtualBox-ose-additions port that doesn't have the nonx11 suffix on it. I'm afraid that if i go through with the transfer, I might choose the VM unless I were to take a snapshot or clone the entire operation.

Has anyone else either converted a bare-metal installation of FreeBSD and or a FreeBSD VM from pure command line to graphical, say via the use of the StartX command or via the use of a display manager like SDDM or XDM for instance?

 

[scottro]

I think I'm misunderstanding your question, since the simple answer is yes, any install I do is CLI and after that, on many of them, I'll then install a window manager, browser, and other GUI stuff. So, I suspect you're asking something more complex, but I'm not sure what.

 

[mer]

I stopped using a graphical login manager (XDM/SDDM/GDM) a long time ago. It's just as easy to craft up a correct .xinitrc and type "startx" after login.
But, it's not hard to configure a graphical login manager.

 

[DerTeufel]

You need to install X11 (xorg port packages). Then install CDE, it also offers a login manager called dtlogin, but can also be invoked via a startx script.