From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 17 08:33:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84FB1065670 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:33:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from relay.pixi.com (relay.pixi.com [206.127.224.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4838FC1B for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:33:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from leka.aloha.com (leka.aloha.com [206.127.224.85]) by relay.pixi.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n5H89vdO025836; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:09:57 -1000 (HST) Received: from [10.0.1.195] (atm-251-63.pixi.com [206.127.251.63]) by leka.aloha.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n5H89uHW025829; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:09:56 -1000 (HST) From: Gary Dunn To: FreeBSD-Gnome In-Reply-To: <20090612232459.6afed5aa@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <20090612232459.6afed5aa@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:09:47 -1000 Message-Id: <1245226187.1876.11.camel@slate01> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Suresh Babu Subject: Re: request X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:33:15 -0000 On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 23:24 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:31:16 +0530 > "Suresh Babu" wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have installed FreeBSD OS 7.2 version, I couldn't enable GUI mode. > > Please send the steps to enable GUI mode and related package links. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html > > You will find a different approach on the Open Slate wiki at This should get you a Gnome desktop. FreeBSD has other GUI options, like KDE, and some people prefer leaner, less resource hungry window managers. I suggest you start with Gnome, then when you are comfortable, experiment with others. You can always come back to Gnome! -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu osp@aloha.com http://openslate.net/ http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ Sent from Slate001