From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 20:27:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB81B16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:27:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rtp-iport-1.cisco.com (rtp-iport-1.cisco.com [64.102.122.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A01143D31 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:27:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sjt@cisco.com) Received: from rtp-core-1.cisco.com (64.102.124.12) by rtp-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 24 Feb 2005 15:41:50 -0500 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="3.90,115,1107752400"; d="scan'208"; a="38295320:sNHT20537686" Received: from mira-kan-a.cisco.com (IDENT:mirapoint@mira-kan-a.cisco.com [161.44.201.17]) by rtp-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j1OKRl1j019759 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:27:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-kta1-161-44-193-137.cisco.com (dhcp-kta1-161-44-193-137.cisco.com [161.44.193.137]) by mira-kan-a.cisco.com (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with ESMTP id ABK20688; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:27:47 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Tremblett To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:28:12 -0500 Message-Id: <1109276892.645.53.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Window managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:27:52 -0000 > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:52:35 +0100, Anthony Atkielski > 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