For installing Mate desktop in FreeBSD 10, the following steps can be used.
Install the needed packages
pkg install xf86-video-fbdev mate-desktop mate xorg
Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf
moused_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES"
Test the installation.
xinit mate-session
Mate doesn’t have a display manager of its own. Hence we can use any other display managers like XDM, GDM, slim etc to use the login manager. Here lets see how to configure Slim DM with Mate desktop.
Install Slim
pkg install slim
Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf
slim_enable="YES"
Add the following line to .xinitrc file in the user’s home directory
exec mate-session
Reboot the machine. Now the machine will boot into Slim login where you can login to Mate session.
Alternatively if you want GDM, use the following steps
Install GDM
pkg install gdm
Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf
gdm_enable="YES"
Reboot the machine. Now the machine will boot into GDM login where you can choose between Gnome or Mate session.
Thank you very much!
Very easy to follow, less is more.
Extremely helpful tutorials on installing Gnome/MATE/ETC… Thanks!
Thanks!