\n\tFreeBSD has no GUI in its initial installation state. Here are a few steps to get the MATE desktop up and running using the binary packages. Note that the packages could also be installed by using the ports collection. For easy configuration i prefer to use VIM but it needs to be installed first. Use following command:\n<\/p>\n
\npkg install vim<\/pre>\n\n\tInstalling the X Window System
\n<\/h2>\n\n\tThis is needed by the desktop environment and can be installed easily by using\n<\/p>\n
\npkg install xorg<\/pre>\n\n\tConfiguring the X Window System
\n<\/h2>\n\n\tNow we need a few commands and edit to configure the system. As root do the following\n<\/p>\n
\nvim \/boot\/loader.conf<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\tadd this line at the top:\n<\/p>\n
\nkern.vty=vt<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\tInstalling SLIM and MATE desktop
\n<\/h2>\n\n\tIt's time to install your graphical interface… MATE does not come with a login manager sou you need to install one like SLIM.\n<\/p>\n
\npkg install mate\npkg install slim<\/code>\n<\/pre>\n\n\tafter installation add this to \/etc\/fstab\n<\/p>\n
\nproc \/proc procfs rw 0 0<\/pre>\n\n\tnow everything should be ready. Only one more step: add the following lines to \/etc\/rc.conf to start the desktop environment at boot:\n<\/p>\n
\nmoused_enable="YES"\ndbus_enable="YES"\nhald_enable="YES"\nslim_enable="YES"\n<\/pre>\n\n\tREMEMBER:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\n\tIf you want a user to login to the MATE desktop, replace the user and execute the following command:\n<\/p>\n
\necho "exec mate-session" > \/home\/<myuser>\/.xinitrc<\/pre>\n\n\t
VMWARE USERS:<\/code><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\tShould you run this FreeBSD setup in a VMware product like VMware Fusion please install following packages:\n<\/p>\n
\npkg install xf86-video-vmware xf86-input-vmmouse<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FreeBSD has no GUI in its initial installation state. Here are a few steps to get the MATE desktop up and running using the binary packages. Note that the packages could also be installed by using the ports collection. For easy configuration i prefer to use VIM but it needs to be installed first. Use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxunix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}