From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 9 4: 3:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pixel.pixelfusion.co.uk (koo.pixelfusion.co.uk [195.10.240.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C80E155FD for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 04:03:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@pixelfusion.co.uk) Received: from bond (alu92.pixelfusion.co.uk [192.168.45.156]) by pixel.pixelfusion.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA11358 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:02:32 GMT From: "Jeff Bond" To: Subject: Gnome and 3.3-RELEASE Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:03:10 -0000 Message-ID: <000101bf423d$5ce6efa0$9c2da8c0@pixelfusion.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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