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Date:      20 Dec 2001 01:02:48 -0500
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Totally Jayyness <Jayyness@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Beginner SERIOUSLY simple question about Gnome
Message-ID:  <1008828168.81679.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <000501c1891a$eefe6910$0300a8c0@jayyness.com>
References:  <000501c1891a$eefe6910$0300a8c0@jayyness.com>

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On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 00:55, Totally Jayyness wrote:
> Very new to FreeBSD 4.4... I have a server running but it has all been
> CLI...
> 
> Built a second bsd box tonight... this one is going to be used as a
> desktop... thought I would try Gnome-Sawfish...  configured my X Server,
> installed Gnome via /stand/sysinstall...
> 
> Dropped to CLI and typed startX which started TWM (or TVM, not sure which it
> is) but it was a very vanilla X session...  I dug around for a bit but
> couldn't figure out how to get Gnome started...
> 
> With KDE I thought it was just startkde.... but I couldn't find an equally
> easy command for gnome.

/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session

However, if I may make a suggestion, you should cvsup the latest ports
tree, and install Gnome and friends from that.  Why?  Well, Maxim
Sobolev and others have done one hell of a job getting Gnome 1.4.1 fully
operational on FreeBSD.  With the latest Gnome, you get working
Nautilus, Evolution, and gdm.  These programs we not very functional in
the 4.4-RELEASE time frame.

Joe

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