From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 20 11:13:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814A137B417 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBKJDY586848; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:13:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:13:34 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Totally Jayyness Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome Woes In-Reply-To: <000501c18988$487d8df0$0300a8c0@jayyness.com> Message-ID: <20011220140942.T85844-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Totally Jayyness wrote: > Ok, am able to get Gnome started now (thanks for the help on that one) > > But when I do startx, then twm loads... then I load Gnome which does start > after warning me that I am not using a Window Manager for Gnome. And after > Gnome does start, my desktop is HUGE... my mouse won't go beyond the screen > size but the windows that are open go WAY below my screen... How did you install Gnome? Gnome built from ports: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome # make all install clean Installs sawfish as the default Gnome window manager. You can always go into the Gnome Control Center, and change the window manager there. > > I did a man gnome and saw that gdm is the preferred window manager of gnome > so I am installing that now (or trying)... after it is installed, will I > just be able to do a startx and it will load or do I have to change > something somewhere to make gdm my default XServer? gdm is the display manager (the login screen), not the window manager. Sawfish is the preferred (or at least default) Gnome window manager. Other Gnome-compliant WMs are fvwm2, icewm, blackbox, afterstep, WindowMaker, and Enlightenment. All window managers can be found in /usr/ports/x11-wm. If you want to use gdm, edit /etc/ttys, and add the line: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on You'll also want to make sure the following is in /etc/pam.conf: gdm auth requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass gdm account requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass gdm session required pam_permit.so Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message