XFCE Only Starts Up at Boot from Root

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frogprince

I spent a couple of hours today installing FreeBSD on a Dell 7490 laptop. It took some work to get through the installation with all the details correct, but the install was successful, and I used desktop-installer to set up XFCE. However, now, when I boot my new system, I can only see the XFCE DE when I boot from the root user. What do I change to get the system to boot to XFCE when I log in as a regular user? Thanks in advance.
 
Yes, as elgrande said, make sure your video is listed when you run groups. Otherwise, run pw groupmod -g video -m frogprince. You must re-log in for the new group to be effective.

More importantly, how are you logging in? From the console or a graphical login dialog? I don't actually use desktop-installer myself, so I don't know how it sets things up, but it may have done something strange like starting the window manager from the shell startup profile.

desktop-installer doesn't actually do much, for you once you understand how things work. It may be worth it just to install xfce4 manually with pkg install xfce4 and if you want a graphical login dialog, install sddm, gdm, lightdm, or xdm.
 
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