From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 20 04:00:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1207616A417 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DD113C461 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:00:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l7K40T8Y023914; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:00:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from localhost (ulrich@localhost) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l7K40TaJ023911; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:00:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:00:28 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: ulrich@small To: Michael S In-Reply-To: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20070820055238.J14030@small> References: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Gnome & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:00:33 -0000 On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: > Good day all, > > I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I > am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used > for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. > The reason is that most of my favorite applications > use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used > to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I > wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) > by not installing KDE. > I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it > polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at > all? There is a minimal gnome installation in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite you can start with that and - if you like it - add all the the other stuff. One caveat: First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2) and check if your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly. Greetings, Uli. > > Thanks in advance, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany