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Date:      Sat, 15 Feb 2014 07:40:20 -0800
From:      <dteske@FreeBSD.org>
To:        <dteske@FreeBSD.org>, "'Polytropon'" <freebsd@edvax.de>, "'shane'" <shanelinlin@163.com>
Cc:        dteske@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: ask for help about installing the gnome or kde on freeBSD 10
Message-ID:  <0e9201cf2a64$3cbf9b40$b63ed1c0$@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <0e8e01cf2a63$62cf5ec0$286e1c40$@FreeBSD.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dteske@FreeBSD.org [mailto:dteske@FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:34 AM
> To: 'Polytropon'; 'shane'
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; dteske@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: ask for help about installing the gnome or kde on freeBSD 10
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Polytropon [mailto:freebsd@edvax.de]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 1:04 AM
> > To: shane
> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: ask for help about installing the gnome or kde on freeBSD
> > 10
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:49:42 +0800 (CST), shane wrote:
> > > hi,dear,
> > >    I'm sorry to bother you so much,but i failed to installing the
> > > gnome2 on freeBSD10 following the official handbook on internet,many
> > > differences come up to me .can you offer exact installing desktop
> > > system (gnome or kde) documentation to me , many thanks to you
> >
> > Can you explain what steps you've tried and where things started to
> > break (commands + output)?
> >
> > On the other hand, installing Gnome should be no problem since v10
> > where a simple "pkg install" session should be sufficient. The
> > configuration
> instructions
> > from the Handbook should still apply.
> >
> > To be honest, it's some time ago that I tried Gnome. My current
> > preference
> for
> > the "almost full-blown desktop experience" has been LXDE. It installs
> nicely via
> > pkg, and only few configuration settings have to be made, mostly in
> relation to
> > X (HAL, dbus etc.).
> >
> [Devin Teske]
> 
> Here's an optimized recipe for FreeBSD-10 that differs slightly from the
> handbook:
> 
> pkg install -y gnome2
> pkg install -y gdm
> X -configure
> cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf{,.bak} # Pedantic

Let me fix that jumble below..
(e-mail client occasionally likes to eat newlines)

> mv -f /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf


sysrc g{nome,dm}_enable=YES

printf "proc\t\t/proc\tprocfs\trw\t0\t0\n" >> /etc/fstab

reboot


Rest is unchanged.
-- 
Devin

> Log in via GDM
> Start using Gnome
> 
> Mind you, that's basically an optimization of what's in the handbook...
> here...
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
> --
> Devin

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