Can't get xfce to start up automatically

joe213

In DragonFlyBSD, I have installed xorg and xfce I have under /etc/rc.conf added these lines

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
moused_enable"YES"

I have also added this line under .xintrc
exec startxfce4

I am perfectly able to start up startxfce4 by typing this up on terminal but I can't seem to start it up automatically as soon as I log in, any ideas what is going wrong?

Jay

joe213 you need login manager like LightDM or slim.

joe213

Jay I keep getting issues when logging in, after setting up slim under /etc/rc.conf

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YtE6613amwZzJfEnpIfr1zyVurNHYmOI

joe213
Do you have a ~/.xsession file? Alternative, did you symlink your ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession?
What happens if you don't use Slim and login into console and issue 'startx' ?

Have a look at my .xinitrc if you want. I don't use a DM, login from console and use startx.
Have a look at this article

joe213

pin First of all why do I need a login manager GUI just to get xfce to automatically start? I just want to get xfce to start automatically?

On my Void Linux machine I have this on my .bash_profile

if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
	exec startx
fi

but, you would have to adjust it to your default shell, if not bash, and to adjust the syntax so it works on DragonFlyBSD, the above is for Linux.

Alternatively, you could use nodm, but I have no clue if that has been packaged on DFBSD ?! its available on Void and it doesn't look to difficult to configure.

nodm is at least available on pkgsrc-wip