Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:15:34 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Volker Stolz <vs@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for installation instructions Message-ID: <1190175334.85751.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <39C3C2BB-E841-472A-B922-9089888970EB@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <39C3C2BB-E841-472A-B922-9089888970EB@FreeBSD.ORG>
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--=-hYbC9i9yzzzS7gDiC9/W Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:32 +0800, Volker Stolz wrote: > Hi guys, I just walked a friend through a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 and GNOME =20 > installation. >=20 > May I suggest to add a note that after setting gnome_enable=3D"YES" in =20 > rc.conf as per http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 you =20 > need to invoke the startup-script as root? > And rephrase "This will enable services such as GDM, HAL, D-BUS, and =20 > Avahi" to "...on subsequent system startups" (sounds awful, but will =20 > do and is precise). This is not obvious to people new to BSD. >=20 > I strongly suggest to move the gnome_enable bit in front of the =20 > section on "Make GNOME 2.18 start when X starts." It would be great if you could through all of these ideas into some patches, and send them on. I'll look at getting them committed. Thanks. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-hYbC9i9yzzzS7gDiC9/W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBG8KJmb2iPiv4Uz4cRAp1lAJwP6Z08+DwQBQHvBgRIxKTEOh4rzwCfYn6Z /PxTvVXbYJxojUS1ZLttXIs= =MMVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hYbC9i9yzzzS7gDiC9/W--
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