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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2002 02:02:19 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Maxim Sobolev <max@vega.com>
To:        wa1ter@hotmail.com (walt)
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how is the GNOME 2 package these days?
Message-ID:  <200207282302.g6SN2JnQ008443@vega.vega.com>
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "walt" at ÉÀÌ 27, 2002 

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> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 22:07, John Reynolds wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi -ports, I was reconfiguring my laptop this afternoon and wanted to
> >>blow away GNOME 1.4 and try GNOME 2...
> 
> Everything on -stable works well for me.  (I don't use gdm anyway.)
> However, the last time I compiled gnumeric, several weeks ago, it still
> had some dependencies on something in 1.4 so I couldn't delete everything.
> If you don't use gnumeric then you probably can delete 1.4.
> 
> > Things are good.  I have two GNOME 2.0 test machines, and I recently did
> > a friend's machine on GNOME 2.0, and so far, no big problems...
> 
> Have you tried it on -current?  Most everything seems to be working OK for
> me except gnome-session which crashes everytime I start it.

This is probably because you either don't have standard XFree86
scalable fonts installed or configures. Check that you have
package XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 installed and the following
line in your /etc/X11/XF86Config:

FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

-Maxim

> Gnome-panel
> and any other gnome app I've tried work fine, though, including nautilus.
> 
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