From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 15:23:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6A66316A51A for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Shane@007Marketing.com) Received: from ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8D343E94 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Shane@007Marketing.com) Received: from ppp247-71.static.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.8.200]) ([203.122.247.71]) by ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 06 Sep 2006 00:52:04 +0930 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AQAAAI8x/UQNIA X-IronPort-AV: i="4.08,215,1154874600"; d="scan'208"; a="7683706:sNHT22189545" User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:52:01 +0930 From: Shane Ambler To: , FreeBSD Mailing Lists Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <000001c6d0ef$1fec0340$6b08a8c0@pcmoperations> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Gnome 2 - Fuzziness 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: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:23:36 -0000 On 5/9/2006 22:58, "Justin" wrote: > Greetings, > > Installed FreeBSD 6.1R on a clean system over the weekend, and installed the > gnome2 port from the ports tree (after cvsup'ing). Everything installed > great, no errors. Ran the xorg configure from the handbook, went over good, > background and cursor came up sharp. So, I enabled gdm, and rebooted. Once > rebooted, X started, which the cursor was crisp, but when the Gnome login > window appeared, it was very fuzzy. I could barely make out the window. > > Is there some configuration step I missed in gnome or X? Where would be a > good start to read up on Gnome? And finally, is there a better full "X > desktop" to use? Personally I have always preferred KDE. The full KDE package also includes KOffice and a large range of apps. One good thing I like is KDE will run the gnome apps but gnome won't run KDE apps. So you don't loose out on any choices with KDE. It is in ports at /usr/ports/x11/kde3, but you may want to get hold of the pre-built package and install from that. -- Shane Ambler Shane@007Marketing.com Get Sheeky @ http://Sheeky.Biz