From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 21:41:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta-2.gci.net (mta-2.gci.net [208.138.130.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE0D37B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mmp-2.gci.net ([208.138.130.81]) by mta-2.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G8MQH302.2JY for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:41:27 -0900 Received: from mattbrice ([24.237.24.94]) by mmp-2.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G8MQH202.A3O for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:41:26 -0900 Message-ID: <000801c094b8$9bed08f0$5e18ed18@fairbanks.ak.net> From: "Matthew Brice" To: Subject: getting gnome working. Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:56:56 -0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0946D.2B944FA0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0946D.2B944FA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have recently downloaded and installed FreeBSD for the first time. I = have used Linux for the last year or so, and am somewhat familiar with = working in Unix-like environments, but am certainly no where near being = a guru. =20 My problem is this: after doing the initial, basic install which = included the X server - with the basic twm window manager - I decided to = download and install Gnome. But my question now is what configuration = files do I need to add/modify to get gnome running when I type "startx"? = Or is there a better way? Any suggestions or comments would be helpful = and appreciated. Matthew Brice ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0946D.2B944FA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I have recently downloaded and = installed FreeBSD=20 for the first time. I have used Linux for the last year or so, and = am=20 somewhat familiar with working in Unix-like environments, but am = certainly no=20 where near being a guru.

My problem is this: after doing = the initial,=20 basic install which included the X server - with the basic twm window = manager -=20 I decided to download and install Gnome. But my question now is = what=20 configuration files do I need to add/modify to get gnome running when I = type=20 "startx"? Or is there a better way? Any suggestions or = comments would=20 be helpful and appreciated.

Matthew = Brice

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