Which Desktop for X220?

[balanga]

I have a ThinkPad X220 with FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE installed and would be intersted to know which DM is recommended by anyone using such a system.

I have tried Lumina and Xfce but both end up with X crashing with an error.

I would paste in the errors from dmesg but I can't get a browser running on that system and re-typing would be difficult.

The system has a high resolution in text mode, which is nice, although midnight commander runs in a wishy washy pale blue colour which is difficult to view.

Any ideas on how to configure this.

 

[SirDice]

I would paste in the errors from dmesg but I can't get a browser running on that system and re-typing would be difficult.

misc/pastebinit might come in handy.

 

[balanga]

Can I paste from the cmd line?

 

[SirDice]

Just do dmesg | pastebinit. It should return with a Pastebin URL that has the contents of the dmesg(8).

 

[balanga]

Wow... what a useful program....

This is dmesg

http://paste2.org/7VB74m5K

This is Xorg.0.log

http://paste2.org/6NZHJgDE

 

[SirDice]

The X configuration looks good but dmesg(8) is showing a crashing dbus. That may be the cause of the window managers crashing (because they fail to connect to dbus).

 

[balanga]

Using Xfce4 I get a D-Bus error - Failed to open "/etc/machine-id".

 

[SirDice]

Have you tried (re)installing devel/dbus?

 

[tobik@]

Using Xfce4 I get a D-Bus error - Failed to open "/etc/machine-id".

Make sure to add dbus_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf

 

[balanga]

I had this in earlier versions but I thought I had read that it wasn't necessary with 11.0...

Anyway I've added it now and both Desktops work.

 

[tankist02]

According to the HandBook dbus is not required for XFCE. Am I wrong?

 

[balanga]

According to the HandBook dbus is not required for XFCE. Am I wrong?

I thought I had read something along those lines somewhere...

Well on my system, without DBUS, X crashed as soon as I started Xfce, but it works fine now that it's included.