From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 16 15:25:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB13337B59D for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA56518; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:25:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000716152401.I535@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:25:46 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Will Andrews Subject: Re: GDM Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrew M. Miklic" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16-Jul-00 Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:24:05PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: >> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and the ports collection, but I was >> surprised could not find a port for the GNOME desktop manager (gdm) >> since it is available for OpenBSD and NetBSD, and so I have been using >> kdm for a graphical login manager--is gdm available for FreeBSD? > > Make a port for it. I'm sure it is not a difficult job, but I don't > care since I use wdm just fine. :-) Actually, it's not an easy thing to port. I tried for a while, but even with some hints from the author, I finally gave up. It *would* be a nice thing to have in the ports collection, though. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message