Date: 27 Jul 2002 22:53:44 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how is the GNOME 2 package these days? Message-ID: <1027824824.48261.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <15683.20966.590902.416783@whale.home-net> References: <15683.20966.590902.416783@whale.home-net>
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On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 22:07, John Reynolds wrote:
> Hi -ports, I was reconfiguring my laptop this afternoon and wanted to blo=
w away
> GNOME 1.4 and try GNOME 2. What's the status of the port(s)? Are they cur=
rently
> buildable and 'usable'? Are there any known "gotchas" to watch out for? I
> planned on deleting darn near every port on the system before starting th=
e
> massive compile-fest (had to do this for GNOME 1.2 -> 1.4 as well).
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> Just curious to see what "state" things are in.
Things are good. I have two GNOME 2.0 test machines, and I recently did
a friend's machine on GNOME 2.0, and so far, no big problems. The
biggest (maybe only real serious) gotcha is gdm. gdm2 doesn't work out
of /etc/ttys right now. You have to create an RC script in
/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d to start gdm. For example:
#!/bin/sh
PREFIX=3D/usr/X11R6
case "$1" in
start)
${PREFIX}/bin/gdm
;;
stop)
/usr/bin/killall gdm 2>/dev/null
;;
*)
echo "$0 start | stop"
;;
esac
I'm still trying to figure out why gdm doesn't like /etc/ttys. Other
than that, I've been pretty happy with the way GNOME 2.0 has worked
out. Of course, you'll want to review http://www.freebsd.org/gnome for
some other hints, and keep checking it as it will be updated as GNOMENG
progresses.
Joe
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> -Jr
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> John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen@reynoldsnet.org http://www.reynoldsnet=
.org/
> Sr. Component Design Engineer, ICG, Intel Corp. jreynold@sedona.ch.int=
el.com
> Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. FreeBSD: The Power to =
Serve!
> "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses=
."
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