From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 17:24:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1786637B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from whowhere.com (in02-fes2.whowhere.com [209.202.220.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A374E43F18 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtndog@eudoramail.com) Received: from Unknown/Local ([?.?.?.?]) by whowhere.com; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 01:24:38 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:24:38 -0800 From: "Dan Hanson" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: off Reply-To: mtndog@eudoramail.com X-Mailer: MailCity Service X-Priority: 3 Subject: GNOME 2.0 on FreeBSD 4.6 new installation X-Sender-Ip: 24.55.71.39 Organization: Lycos Mail (http://www.mail.eudoramail.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sure this is a simply question that most people can answer, but I could use a little help. I'm trying to make a transfer from Microsoft systems to Unix systems, and am now trying to learn FreeBSD. To this end, I have used the MINI-ISO installation CD and FTP server to get my BSD box up and running. I have select only the package that I plan on using for the installation. X is up and running using twm, but I can't seem to get GNOME to run. I used the "make clean" followed by "make clean install" method to install GNOME, and it seemed to work. My basic question is how do I start GNOME? I've tried used gnome-session, but that doesn't seem to work correctly. I've used the 'startx' script to access X, then tried 'gnome-session' from a xterm windows, but that didn't work quite right either. Any ideas you can give me would be greatly helpful. Thanks! MtnDog Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message