From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 04:00:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD031065673 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from juan@juanyjosefina.com) Received: from smtpauth20.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpauth20.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E0BE8FC13 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7320 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2011 03:33:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (76.109.190.167) by smtpauth20.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.36) with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2011 03:33:52 -0000 From: "Juan C. Valido" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4D782C8D.3020102@extracktor.com> References: <4D782C8D.3020102@extracktor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:33:51 -0500 Message-ID: <1299728031.72606.5.camel@server-3.juanyjosefina.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:00:33 -0000 I'm an old "foggie" also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of research and a lot of trial and error until I found Dan's blog. God Bless the Man! Without his blog I would not have this server up. And yes it's running gnome. https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/category/freebsd/ On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:42 +0800, Foo JH wrote: > Hi guys, > > I know the steps are documented on the Handbook and all. I've tried to > read, follow, and re-read the steps, but I'm not still getting any > popular window manager up and running on my FreeBSD servers. Meanwhile > new hires are seduced by the comes-with-it windows manager via Ubuntu > Desktop (yes, they abstained from the server edition because they really > wanted the GUI). > > If there is a kind soul who is willing to guide me through via IM (MSN/ > Yahoo/ Skype), I'd much appreciate it. Please don't flame me for this > email! > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >