From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 16 15:31:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (ha2.rdc1.tx.home.com [24.4.0.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6128337B8BA for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:31:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miklic@attglobal.net) Received: from attglobal.net ([24.10.140.87]) by lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000716223110.SXTK13510.lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com@attglobal.net>; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:31:10 -0700 Message-ID: <39723869.4BBAAAE4@attglobal.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:34:17 -0600 From: "Andrew M. Miklic" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC alpha) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GDM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Believe it or not, I _think_ I might already be very close (I don't think I have quite all of the dependencies caught yet, but it builds, installs, and runs without a hitch...) Andrew Conrad Sabatier wrote: > 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