From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 28 8:26: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D6937B428 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBSGQDr27792; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:26:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:26:13 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Muhannad Asfour Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome desktop not loading In-Reply-To: <20011228025639.376541b4.muhannad07@cogeco.ca> Message-ID: <20011228112342.F27720-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Muhannad Asfour wrote: > I installed the latest gnome and libraries and such through > /usr/ports/x11/gnome so it would handle all the dependancies > automatically. And I made sure for it not to install nautilus, but now > it doesn't load any icons of anything on the desktop. Just gnome and > sawfish load, but no desktop, i have no right click menu on the desktop > or anything. Can anyone tell me how to possibly fix this. You need to load either nautilus or gmc. The icons come from a desktop file manager. Nautilus is now the default, and it works quite well. However, you can still opt for the old gmc FM as well: /usr/ports/x11-fm/gnomemc Also, please use freebsd-gnome for these kind of questions. This list is more discussion on issue running the -stable branch of FreeBSD. Joe > > Thank you very much > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message