From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 04:15:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2687B16A419; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:15:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EDE13C46C; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:15:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8J4GbU7057103; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:16:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Volker Stolz In-Reply-To: <39C3C2BB-E841-472A-B922-9089888970EB@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <39C3C2BB-E841-472A-B922-9089888970EB@FreeBSD.ORG> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-hYbC9i9yzzzS7gDiC9/W" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:15:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1190175334.85751.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for installation instructions X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:15:42 -0000 --=-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--