From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 18:34:29 2003 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 5D70A37B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBD143EB2 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0G2XjDx022554; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:33:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 on FreeBSD 4.6 new installation From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: mtndog@eudoramail.com Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-bxSX1+6G2XV2QmSUTGxr" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1042684458.39453.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 15 Jan 2003 21:34:18 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03,SUPERLONG_LINE, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-bxSX1+6G2XV2QmSUTGxr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 20:24, Dan Hanson wrote: > I'm sure this is a simply question that most people can answer, but I cou= ld use a little help. I'm trying to make a transfer from Microsoft systems= to Unix systems, and am now trying to learn FreeBSD. To this end, I have = used the MINI-ISO installation CD and FTP server to get my BSD box up and r= unning. I have select only the package that I plan on using for the instal= lation. X is up and running using twm, but I can't seem to get GNOME to ru= n. I used the "make clean" followed by "make clean install" method to inst= all GNOME, and it seemed to work. My basic question is how do I start GNOM= E? I've tried used gnome-session, but that doesn't seem to work correctly.= I've used the 'startx' script to access X, then tried 'gnome-session' fro= m a xterm windows, but that didn't work quite right either. Any ideas you = can give me would be greatly helpful. Thanks! What do you mean by, "it didn't work?" This is rather vague.=20 gnome-session is the proper way to start GNOME from either startx or *dm. If you want more help, checkout the FreeBSD GNOME project website at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. Joe >=20 > MtnDog >=20 >=20 > Need a new email address that people can remember > Check out the new EudoraMail at > http://www.eudoramail.com >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-bxSX1+6G2XV2QmSUTGxr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+Jhoqb2iPiv4Uz4cRAndyAJ0VRpEwCVhBsbi+v8faCsJRvTWlCwCbBrMJ /5BoIro/LYSh11ZBTXdznAs= =EOem -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bxSX1+6G2XV2QmSUTGxr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message