Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:34:52 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sorry for the idiot question, but.... Message-ID: <20050810193452.GA92722@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050810070720.GN70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20050810062920.GA88239@thought.org> <20050810070720.GN70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:29:20PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks,=20 > >=20 > > *Which* ports do I need to install to get Gnome and KDE=08 > > working? On my laptop (w/ omly 12G of disk) I may not have > > nough room; but on my main server I should have plenty. > >=20 > > I have installed the x11/gnome2 and the x11/kde uberportscripts; > > no joy. What gives? >=20 > Well that should be enough; I don't know about KDE but as for GNOME > you can simply turn on the knob >=20 > gdm_enable=3D"YES" >=20 > in /etc/rc.conf and then execute >=20 > /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start >=20 > Note: only do this after you configured X to work right; GDM starts X > as part of a graphical login screen. >=20 > There is a way to start gnome using the 'startx' method but I don't > know it. >=20 I didn't know about the entry in rc.conf; thanks much! Generally, I use xdm to get into X and ctwm. Without exiting ctwm, I exec'd the gdm.sh script. It looked like Gnome was going to work; then everything died and I was back to my root login (no X). I'll try gdm (from scratch!) and see what happens. Thanks for the clue. gary script is (probably) the Gnome equivalent. Do I need gdm rathr than xdm or will xdm let me=20 --=20 Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Un= ix
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