From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 03:50:32 2011 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 6ED93106564A for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:50:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com) Received: from mail.nexlabs.com (mail.nexlabs.com [210.193.32.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0F988FC16 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 66611 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2011 03:50:37 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on frostbite.nexlabs.local X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_00,FH_DATE_PAST_20XX, RCVD_IN_PBL,RDNS_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.190?) (jhfoo@nexlabs.com@210.193.17.86) by mail.nexlabs.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2011 03:50:37 -0000 Message-ID: <4D82D601.6020301@extracktor.com> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:48:17 +0800 From: Foo JH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D782C8D.3020102@extracktor.com> <1299728031.72606.5.camel@server-3.juanyjosefina.com> In-Reply-To: <1299728031.72606.5.camel@server-3.juanyjosefina.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on 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: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:50:32 -0000 Hello all, including the guys who responded. Thanks for the comments and tips/ links. I'd see what I can do to move fwd on the issue. Appreciate your feedback! On 3/10/2011 11:33 AM, Juan C. Valido wrote: > I'm an old "foggie" also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of > research and a lot of trial and error until I found Dan's blog. God > Bless the Man! Without his blog I would not have this server up. And yes > it's running gnome. https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/category/freebsd/ > > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:42 +0800, Foo JH wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I know the steps are documented on the Handbook and all. I've tried to >> read, follow, and re-read the steps, but I'm not still getting any >> popular window manager up and running on my FreeBSD servers. Meanwhile >> new hires are seduced by the comes-with-it windows manager via Ubuntu >> Desktop (yes, they abstained from the server edition because they really >> wanted the GUI). >> >> If there is a kind soul who is willing to guide me through via IM (MSN/ >> Yahoo/ Skype), I'd much appreciate it. Please don't flame me for this >> email! >> >> Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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"