From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 10 6: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from master.telia.net (master.telia.net [194.237.170.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F2F37B58E for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khaled@w-arts.com) Received: from localhost (elite@localhost) by master.telia.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA38271; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:00:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from khaled@w-arts.com) X-Authentication-Warning: master.telia.net: elite owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:00:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Khaled Daham X-Sender: elite@master.telia.net To: "Andrew M. Miklic" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using GNOME In-Reply-To: <38F0AEB6.895871DE@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I had no problem installing gnome and using the panel, but that was on 4.0-snap-atleast-4months ago. So I dont know if it works with the latest, which Im about to install. If I remember correctly gtop compiled without a hitch. /Khaled Daham, w.arts Mail: khaled@w-arts.com Cell: +46-70-6785492 Cell: +966-54491462 On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > Does GNOME work under FreeBSD-Alpha? I know that a few things need to > be done to get it to compile and install (i.e., remove the battery > applet from the gnomecore build, and remove gnumeric and gtop from the > gnome build), but even after everything else "successfully" installs, > when I try and run gnome-session from .xinitrx or .xsession with startx, > it takes a loooooooooong tiiiiiiiime to start up. The only clues I have > as to problems are that I get an error about my locale not being > supported in .xsession-errors (and every time I type anything in ETerm), > and gnome-smproxy seems to core-dump... > > Also, is anyone working on a port of gdm (the GNOME desktop/login > manager)? > > Andrew Miklic > mikic@ibm.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message