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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:46:34 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
Subject: Re: login to gnome
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:25:34 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> On Monday, 30. Jun 2014, 11:09:27 -0400,, Fbsd8 wrote:
> > I installed xorg and gnome
> > 
> > now I get to gdm and it asks to login.
> > 
> > What do I have to do to config gdm so login works?
> 
> In case you have a non-US keyboard, first configure it in "xorg.conf".

Or in /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi in case
you're using X with HAL enabled (default). Also make sure
the desired user(s) actually _can_ login; you can test this
locally in the text mode console.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

You can find further information related to Gnome (and gdm)
here:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/



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Polytropon
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