From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 21:19:48 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 6F1A916A4C2 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:19:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.foldr.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:5c0:8fff:fffe::5e3b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C50613C773 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from [172.18.1.172] (z118l194.static.ctm.net [202.175.118.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.foldr.org (8.13.8/8.14.1/Debian-8) with ESMTP id l8KAkL53002149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:46:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1190175334.85751.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <39C3C2BB-E841-472A-B922-9089888970EB@FreeBSD.ORG> <1190175334.85751.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-12--622965392" Message-Id: <9AA32A89-5713-4DFF-BDCB-A579B5C23198@FreeBSD.ORG> From: Volker Stolz Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:45:15 +0800 To: Joe Marcus Clarke Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) 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: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:19:48 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-12--622965392 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-11--622965477 --Apple-Mail-11--622965477 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Patch attached (Apple Mail willing...). -V --Apple-Mail-11--622965477 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: application/octet-stream; x-unix-mode=0700; name=gnome-faq2.sgml.diff Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=gnome-faq2.sgml.diff --- faq2.sgml Sat Jun 23 21:45:39 2007 +++ faq2-vs.sgml Thu Sep 20 19:17:51 2007 @@ -113,18 +113,9 @@ # make install clean -

Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts.

- -

Once you have the GNOME &gnomever; desktop installed, - GNOME &gnomever; can be started by adding the following line - to ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc, as - appropriate:

- - 
-exec gnome-session
-
- - +

You still need to enable the + GNOME services to run e.g. the graphical login + automatically on system startup.

  • This will enable services such as GDM, HAL, D-BUS, and - Avahi. If you do not want to run all of these services, - you should forgo the gnome_enable property, and - manually enable the services you want.

    + Avahi on system startup. If you do not want to run all + of these services, you should forgo the + gnome_enable property, and manually enable the + services you want.

    + +

    If you do not want to reboot immediately after the + installation, you can invoke + /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start as root to + bring up the GNOME login screen (although this will not + start the other services).

    + +

    Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts without + using GDM.

    + +

    The GNOME &gnomever; desktop can also be started by + adding the following line to ~/.xsession or + ~/.xinitrc, as appropriate (see also + startx(1)):

    + + 
    +exec gnome-session
+
    • --Apple-Mail-11--622965477 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 19.09.2007, at 12:15, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 >> installation. >> >> May I suggest to add a note that after setting gnome_enable="YES" in >> rc.conf as per http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 you >> need to invoke the startup-script as root? >> And rephrase "This will enable services such as GDM, HAL, D-BUS, and >> Avahi" to "...on subsequent system startups" (sounds awful, but will >> do and is precise). This is not obvious to people new to BSD. >> >> I strongly suggest to move the gnome_enable bit in front of the >> 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 > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --Apple-Mail-11--622965477-- --Apple-Mail-12--622965392 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRvJPPBLpPok/0ba1AQLBbQP8DZPGpy5rg0rP5VoY1lkFXpXDe7h2qBfh LMq736AdXsSP0nL4DI4fCgqdtVQCp2/jaB79LeVSbRAfQXsoEZSt9cZiM1soqVso ziziCDO8GckwSAIk8FhhB/7VC1rAQc+pcN8S+am4UCUO5CSgpGNOFlOGOxIf2WZd vZ5R6JvidUI= =/ZKx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-12--622965392--