slim

After rebooting my FreeBSD 11.0, I wasn’t able to login to Mate desktop manager via SLiM (Login Manager). I spent sometimes to try to fix it, but failed. I’ll try it again later when I have a bit of free time. Here’s a quick note of a work around, so I won’t forget what I’ve done. Disable loading slim on start up by editing /etc/rc.conf and commented out the following line: Run this command manually to start mate-session: So, it appears SLiM is the culprit here since Mate-session can be started up manually....