Date: 15 Jan 2003 21:34:18 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: mtndog@eudoramail.com Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 on FreeBSD 4.6 new installation Message-ID: <1042684458.39453.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <CJDNENHHGCDBJAAA@whowhere.com> References: <CJDNENHHGCDBJAAA@whowhere.com>
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--=-bxSX1+6G2XV2QmSUTGxr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 20:24, Dan Hanson wrote: > I'm sure this is a simply question that most people can answer, but I cou= ld use a little help. I'm trying to make a transfer from Microsoft systems= to Unix systems, and am now trying to learn FreeBSD. To this end, I have = used the MINI-ISO installation CD and FTP server to get my BSD box up and r= unning. I have select only the package that I plan on using for the instal= lation. X is up and running using twm, but I can't seem to get GNOME to ru= n. I used the "make clean" followed by "make clean install" method to inst= all GNOME, and it seemed to work. My basic question is how do I start GNOM= E? I've tried used gnome-session, but that doesn't seem to work correctly.= I've used the 'startx' script to access X, then tried 'gnome-session' fro= m a xterm windows, but that didn't work quite right either. Any ideas you = can give me would be greatly helpful. Thanks! What do you mean by, "it didn't work?" This is rather vague.=20 gnome-session is the proper way to start GNOME from either startx or *dm. If you want more help, checkout the FreeBSD GNOME project website at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. Joe >=20 > MtnDog >=20 >=20 > Need a new email address that people can remember > Check out the new EudoraMail at > http://www.eudoramail.com >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-bxSX1+6G2XV2QmSUTGxr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+Jhoqb2iPiv4Uz4cRAndyAJ0VRpEwCVhBsbi+v8faCsJRvTWlCwCbBrMJ /5BoIro/LYSh11ZBTXdznAs= =EOem -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bxSX1+6G2XV2QmSUTGxr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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