Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:45:15 +0800 From: Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for installation instructions Message-ID: <9AA32A89-5713-4DFF-BDCB-A579B5C23198@FreeBSD.ORG> 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>
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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 </pre> - <p><u>Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts.</u></p> - - <p>Once you have the GNOME &gnomever; desktop installed, - GNOME &gnomever; can be started by adding the following line - to <tt>~/.xsession</tt> or <tt>~/.xinitrc</tt>, as - appropriate:</p> - - <pre> -exec gnome-session - </pre> - - </li> + <p>You still need to <a href="#full-gnome">enable the + GNOME services</a> to run e.g. the graphical login + automatically on system startup.</p> </li> <!-- Q Full-GNOME --> <li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a @@ -141,9 +132,28 @@ </pre> <p>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 <em>gnome_enable</em> property, and - manually enable the services you want.</p> + Avahi on system startup. If you do not want to run all + of these services, you should forgo the + <em>gnome_enable</em> property, and manually enable the + services you want.</p> + + <p>If you do not want to reboot immediately after the + installation, you can invoke + <tt>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start</tt> as root to + bring up the GNOME login screen (although this will not + start the other services).</p> + + <p><u>Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts without + using GDM.</u></p> + + <p>The GNOME &gnomever; desktop can also be started by + adding the following line to <tt>~/.xsession</tt> or + <tt>~/.xinitrc</tt>, as appropriate (see also + <tt>startx(1)</tt>):</p> + + <pre> +exec gnome-session + </pre> </li> <!-- Q2 --> --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--
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