This post covers installing Lumina and xdm on a fresh i386 install. It also covers installing Japanese fonts and a Japanese IME. The final test is watching DVDs and YouTube videos- what a computer needs to do for my wife and kids to consider it useful.

Software Versions

$ date -u "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000"
2016-10-01 23:28:23 +0000
$ uname -vm
FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 #0 r305786: Wed Sep 14 04:19:22 UTC 2016     root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Install Lumina Desktop and slim

First, do a minimal install of FreeBSD and login as root.

Make your unprivileged user a member of the wheel group. This will allow you to conveniently shutdown the computer.

pw groupmod wheel -m username

NOTE: Consider increasing FETCH_TIMEOUT and/or FETCH_RETRY in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf if you are getting timeouts when installing packages.

/usr/local/etc/pkg.conf partial listing

FETCH_RETRY=5
FETCH_TIMEOUT=90

I use vim to edit files, so that gets installed first.

pkg install vim

lumina and slim need to be installed. The localized lumina-i18n pulls in lumina and xorg.

pkg install lumina-i18n slim

Enable slim and dbus in /etc/rc.conf. slim needs dbus to start Lumina. hald is not strictly necessary, but it tends to be enabled when running xorg. Also, if you use a mouse, make sure moused is enabled in /etc/rc.conf.

/etc/rc.conf partial listing

# xorg
slim_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"

Consider enabling sshd just in case something goes horribly wrong when configuring xorg.

/etc/rc.conf partial listing

sshd_enable="YES"

Generate xorg.conf.

Xorg -configure
cp ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Add the Load "freetype" to the “Module” section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf partial listing

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Add the FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/dejavu/" to the “Files” section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf partial listing

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/dejavu/"
EndSection

Japanese Fonts and IME

Install the Japanese fonts and IME.

pkg install japanese/font-std japanese/scim-anthy

Create the following .xinitrc for new users.

/usr/share/skel/dot.xinitrc complete listing

#!/bin/sh

# set locale
export LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8
export LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8

# set input method
export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'

# execute scim as a daemon
scim -d

# key board layout
setxkbmap -layout jp

# startx
exec $1

Copy the above .xinitrc to your home directory.

USERNAME=username
cp /usr/share/skel/dot.xinitrc /home/${USERNAME}/.xinitrc

After starting xorg, consider running scim-setup to configure scim for the IME. By default, switch between kanji and romaji input with Ctrl-[SPACE].

YouTube

As root, install chromium or your broswer of choice.

pkg install chromium

As an unprivileged user start chrome and watch a YouTube video.

chrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CynsucGqMtI

DVDs

First, install vlc as root.

pkg install vlc

Also install libdvdcss. The following should work.

pkg install libdvdcss

When I tried, the package was not available, so I had to build the port.

# fetch ports tree
portsnap fetch extract

# install multimedia/libdvdcss port
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/libdvdcss
make config recursive
make install clean

Add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf.

/etc/sysctl.conf partial listing

vfs.usermount=1

Verify the device name with camcontrol. It is usually /dev/cd0.

camcontrol devlist

Next, modify /etc/sysctl.conf to make the CDROM/DVDROM mountable by unprivileged users. Use the device from the previous step.

/etc/devfs.conf partial listing

## Allow members of the operator to mount the cdrom
own　　　　/dev/cd0    root:operator
perm　　　/dev/cd0     0660

Add your unprivileged user to the operator group.

pw groupmod operator -m username

Reboot.

shutdown -r now

You should be able to mount and unmount the DVDs as your unprivileged user now.

CDROM=/dev/cd0
mkdir -p ~/media/cdrom
mount -t cd9660 "${CDROM}" ~/media/cdrom
umount ~/media/cdrom

As an your unprivileged user, insert a DVD and play it with VLC.

CDROM=/dev/cd0
vlc dvd://

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