Installing Xorg and Fluxbox - Revision history

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Automatic hardware detection

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	Reboot the machine and <code>hald</code> and <code>dbus</code> should just work. Xorg ~~works~~ without any <code>xorg.conf</code>.		Reboot the machine and <code>hald</code> and <code>dbus</code> should just work, making Xorg work without any <code>xorg.conf</code>.

	== Starting Fluxbox automatically when X starts ==		== Starting Fluxbox automatically when X starts ==

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	It has become a very ~~painless~~ to enable a FreeBSD machine for use as a regular workstation. When I first tried this in FreeBSD 5-6 it was a proper nightmare (or maybe I just didn't know what I was doing back then). Anyway, apart from the build time, which packages can help minimize, there really isn't much to it. After following the steps below I install Firefox, Pidgin, OpenOffice, Virtualbox and all the other stuff I need ~~on a FreeBSD workstation~~. After adding menu items to the Fluxbox menu ~~for the applications~~ I am ready to go.		It has become a very easy to enable a FreeBSD machine for use as a regular workstation. When I first tried this in FreeBSD 5-6 it was a proper nightmare (or maybe I just didn't know what I was doing back then). Anyway, apart from the build time, which packages can help minimize, there really isn't much to it. After following the steps below I install Firefox, Pidgin, OpenOffice, Virtualbox and all the other stuff I need. After adding menu items for the applications to the Fluxbox menu I am ready to go.

	== Installation ==		== Installation ==

Tykling at 01:29, 12 April 2010

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	It has become a very painless to enable a machine for use as a regular workstation. When I first tried this in FreeBSD 5-6 it was a proper nightmare (or maybe I just didn't know what I was doing back then). Anyway, apart from the build time, which packages can help minimize, there really isn't much to it. After following the steps below I install Firefox, Pidgin, OpenOffice, Virtualbox and all the other stuff I need on a FreeBSD workstation. After adding menu items to the Fluxbox menu for the applications I am ready to go.		It has become a very painless to enable a FreeBSD machine for use as a regular workstation. When I first tried this in FreeBSD 5-6 it was a proper nightmare (or maybe I just didn't know what I was doing back then). Anyway, apart from the build time, which packages can help minimize, there really isn't much to it. After following the steps below I install Firefox, Pidgin, OpenOffice, Virtualbox and all the other stuff I need on a FreeBSD workstation. After adding menu items to the Fluxbox menu for the applications I am ready to go.

	== Installation ==		== Installation ==

Tykling at 01:28, 12 April 2010

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			It has become a very painless to enable a machine for use as a regular workstation. When I first tried this in FreeBSD 5-6 it was a proper nightmare (or maybe I just didn't know what I was doing back then). Anyway, apart from the build time, which packages can help minimize, there really isn't much to it. After following the steps below I install Firefox, Pidgin, OpenOffice, Virtualbox and all the other stuff I need on a FreeBSD workstation. After adding menu items to the Fluxbox menu for the applications I am ready to go.

	== Installation ==		== Installation ==
	To install Xorg and Fluxbox:		To install Xorg and Fluxbox:

Tykling: /* Installation */

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Installation

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	Note: This might take a long time on a slow cpu.		I go for the defaults in all the <code>make config</code> screens I get presented with.

			'''Note: This might take a long time on a slow cpu.'''

	== Automatic hardware detection ==		== Automatic hardware detection ==

Tykling: Created page with '== Installation == To install Xorg and Fluxbox:

 sudo portmaster /usr/ports/x11/xorg sudo portmaster /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox

Note: This might take a long time on …'

2010-04-12T01:24:42Z

Created page with '== Installation == To install Xorg and Fluxbox: <pre> sudo portmaster /usr/ports/x11/xorg sudo portmaster /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox </pre> Note: This might take a long time on …'

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== Installation ==
To install Xorg and Fluxbox:

<pre>
sudo portmaster /usr/ports/x11/xorg
sudo portmaster /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox
</pre>

Note: This might take a long time on a slow cpu.

== Automatic hardware detection ==
The nightmare that was xorg.conf seems to have vanished completely. Add the following lines to <code>/etc/rc.conf</code> to enable automatic hardware detection for X:
<pre>
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
</pre>

Create the file <code>/usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi</code> and add the following to it to get Danish keyboard layout in X:
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">pc104</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">dk</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
</pre>

Reboot the machine and <code>hald</code> and <code>dbus</code> should just work. Xorg works without any <code>xorg.conf</code>.

== Starting Fluxbox automatically when X starts ==
Create the file ~/.xinitrc (in your regular users homedir) and add the following line to it to start Fluxbox automatically:
<pre>
exec fluxbox
</pre>

== Starting X ==
To start X run the command (as your regular user):
<pre>
startx
</pre>