Five years ago, I installed FreeBSD 11 in a VMWare 12 Player. I wrote about the experience here : http://programount.blogspot.com/2017/05/freebsd-11-as-guest-os-in-vmware.html.
Recently, I decided to do an upgrade. I installed FreeBSD 13.1 in a VMWare 16 Player. I followed the same steps that I took last time, and completed the installation. After the completion, I logged into the GUI login screen, only to be greeted by a black screen with a mouse cursor.
I spent a lot of time reading through many log files. Then by accident I noticed the drop down on the login screen:
The default selection was on "Desktop Session: Plasma (Wayland)". But I did not install "Wayland". In fact, at the site https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD/Setup, "Wayland" is crossed out. So I switched to "Desktop Session: Plasma (X11)", which is what I installed. After that, I logged in, and the Plasma 5 desktop is working.
