From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 16:30:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6655016A4DF for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:30:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jordilin@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A605C43D7C for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:30:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jordilin@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so961693nzn for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:30:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=fbgKbcoBMucb2MHh32pK1HFA+nzEbA8rH9zyL6XzZYWepBOEa0and8P/LIOkrhEJbcmiW90csmLfEWjSqkH1//SCb3jhHIhetvb4y/rmrjT1UFRlJLegci/KFrJ1jUEh9QUnzng8taLfqQX+uE2yDEC0bvqoiONa6bMInzTaHvs= Received: by 10.65.251.1 with SMTP id d1mr4899086qbs; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.231.11 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <94ff3700609050930r79e7379at8222ad3c0b7e1aa4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:30:01 +0200 From: "Jordi Carrillo" To: "Shane Ambler" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <000001c6d0ef$1fec0340$6b08a8c0@pcmoperations> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: justin@pcmedicsite.com, FreeBSD Mailing Lists Subject: Re: Gnome 2 - Fuzziness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:30:17 -0000 You can run kde apps within gnome as well. I have Gnome and I can run perfectly k3b. As for fuzziness in the gdm login screen, it is most probably due to the screen resolution. Set your default in the xorg.conf file. 2006/9/5, Shane Ambler : > > On 5/9/2006 22:58, "Justin" wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > Installed FreeBSD 6.1R on a clean system over the weekend, and installed > the > > gnome2 port from the ports tree (after cvsup'ing). Everything installed > > great, no errors. Ran the xorg configure from the handbook, went over > good, > > background and cursor came up sharp. So, I enabled gdm, and > rebooted. Once > > rebooted, X started, which the cursor was crisp, but when the Gnome > login > > window appeared, it was very fuzzy. I could barely make out the window. > > > > Is there some configuration step I missed in gnome or X? Where would be > a > > good start to read up on Gnome? And finally, is there a better full "X > > desktop" to use? > > Personally I have always preferred KDE. The full KDE package also includes > KOffice and a large range of apps. > > One good thing I like is KDE will run the gnome apps but gnome won't run > KDE > apps. > So you don't loose out on any choices with KDE. > > It is in ports at /usr/ports/x11/kde3, but you may want to get hold of the > pre-built package and install from that. > > > -- > > Shane Ambler > Shane@007Marketing.com > > Get Sheeky @ http://Sheeky.Biz > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com