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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Gnome & FreeBSD
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Thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to take
into consideration everything everyone wrote.

Michael

--- "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> wrote:

> 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
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> Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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