Re: Xs with WM or Desktop brakes? Clean installation.

[reed%reedmedia.net@localhost]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, latinfo%vcn.bc.ca@localhost wrote:

> 1. the Xs brakes when i try to use WMs or Desktop Mate and XFCE4, and how
> to get out of Xs? Ctrl+Alt+Backspace do not work, pressing right button of
> the mouse+exit does not work, it stay forever.

For Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, maybe need xorg.conf with DontZap option turned 
to on. See xorg.conf manual.

> 2. is there a simple form to start WMs or Desktops? i can not start Mate,
> and others WMs and Desktop?

I use ~/.xinitrc file

> 3. is there a simple command to delete all the packages (binaries),
> installed by hand? something like: # pkg_delete everything or pkgin delete
> everything? leaving only the NetBSD standard installation?

see
https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_upgrade_packages/#index8h2
pkg_delete -Rr '*-*'
or
-or-
pkg_delete -ff '*-*'

or: rm -rf /usr/pkg (but loses configs  and keeps stale metadata)