Xfce Xfce issues

[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..

 

[Jakflip]

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!

 

[fahrenheit]

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.