Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:28:12 -0500 From: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Window managers Message-ID: <1109276892.645.53.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <d9175cad050224110436126aea@mail.gmail.com> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAkUru9e0Xgkm1jphiEj0758KAAAAQAAAAVNKPkcwi5Uq3w6wWDp/biAEAAAAA@video-phones-evdo.com> <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> <20050224035935.GI36248@wantadilla.lemis.com> <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr> <421D7A17.3050109@mac.com> <921440111.20050224165235@wanadoo.fr> <d9175cad050224110436126aea@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:52:35 +0100, Anthony Atkielski > <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > Chuck Swiger writes: > > > > > It's not hard. "pkg_delete -xf kde" or "pkg_delete -xf gnome". > > > > > > [ You might want to be a little more selective than using such a wildcard, > > > however, although if you've got the precompiled packages handy, reinstalling > > > something again is not a big deal if you need a dependency. ] > > > > Where is gnome? I can't find anything that looks like it among the > > packages. All I found was something to "insert GNOME menus into window > > manager," or something like that. There is a simple path to getting up and running. 1 - install X11. There is a single port (/usr/ports/x11/xorg) which will install all the required packages. 2 - config X11. Use xorgconfig and come up with a basic functional config (it will reside in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf). There is a manpage for xorg.conf so once you have the basic one it is probably easier to tweak it in a text editor to iron out the kinks. The xorg manpage should point you to related manpages. 3 - install gnome. Also simple - install /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 and you'll get all the packages. You can install gdm (see /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/) to start X/gnome at boot time. Alternatively, make a .xinitrc file in your home directory containing a call to "gnome-session" and run "startx". good luck
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