Brian, A quick Google search shows that the latest version of TrueOS uses OpenRC -- it even has automount in the example screen shots they use to make the announcement/explain how to use it. Is there a reason you are not using the built in tools to manage start up services, and are trying to reinvent the wheel? I may have missed you explaining why the OS's provided tools are not being used, and if I did, sorry. Jeff On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > > > > Now I'm not sure where to put those > > service automountd start > > service automount start > > > > statements. I tried adding them to rc.conf but that didn't work. > > > > Where were they in the earlier version of the OS? Can you go back into an > old > system and find out? Alternatively, can you look for where they are > supposed > to be (in older versions of the distro) by making searches over file trees? > > > > Also I installed xorg and lumina and ran startx. That sort of > > works, but doesn't give a bottom bar with a "start" button. I can > > right click on the desktop and get a menu of a few things. When > > I do that and start a terminal, I'm not able to resize it other than > > making it full screen. TrueOS for a while was really helpful to > > me. I hope they will get back after this transition they are going > > through, but for now am thinking about trying GhostBSD. > > > > Sounds like they changed the "window manager" of the default install. It > sounds like "mwm" or "twm" is what it has by default. Can you see how one > can > change the default window manager in TrueOS? In standard X11 fashion, and > this > includes Xorg's X server build, the "xinit" does this, and so you will need > to modify your "~/.xinitrc" or the equivalent systemwide file, which should > be in something like: /etc/X11/xinit/ or similar. > > In the case of mwm, try holding down control and right-clicking in the > xterm > to get some options. Same with left-click. > > I think you need to learn a bit about how the OS works, in general, and X11 > as well. It will help moving forward to bootstartp out of these questions > on > your own. Time well-spent. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180807/0714dc28/attachment.html>