Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:03:10 -0000 From: "Jeff Bond" <jeff@pixelfusion.co.uk> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Gnome and 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <000101bf423d$5ce6efa0$9c2da8c0@pixelfusion.co.uk>
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Hi all, I've recently taken delivery of the cheapbytes 3.3-RELEASE CDs, and I installed it last night, hoping to get Gnome working. FreeBSD installed fine (as usual), and I was pleasantly surprised to find an X-Desktop menu in the sysinstall program. I duly selected Gnome, and everything installed and seemed fine. My problem: When I start X, Gnome and Enlightenment do appear to start, but it's in a right crappy old state. I have funny enlightenment pager windows and icons, the gnome file manager fails to start (I can start it manually), I have no workspace buttons on the panel etc. Basically, it's just not configured. In comparison, Redhat 6 gives a clean, usable Gnome desktop straight out of the box. Why doesn't FreeBSD do this? For reference my .xinitrc just contains: gnome-session I start X by doing 'startx -- -bpp 16' and I set my WINDOW_MANAGER env variable to 'enlightenment'. Any help appreciated - please reply to me directly, because I am not subscribed to the list. Regards, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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