I know this question was asked thousands of times and there are lots of solutions out there, I tried them all, but with no luck.
Symptoms
It takes about 3 to 5 minutes for Gnome to start up, I'm asked for my username/password and then the Gnome splash screen comes up, but it stays there for god damn 3-5 minutes!
Another thing is that running gnome programs takes a long time, like if you wana open the terminal, you have to wait for couple of minutes for it to come up after you click on its icon
What did I do?
Well, I googled and found several solutions, like adding "gnome_enable='YES'" to /etc/rc.conf file, which I did. Another solution was to make sure your hostname is like your machines name, since I'm not connected to any DNS, it can not be an issue, but if you insist, here is my untouched default /etc/hosts file:
I also did whatever was suggested in this thread, i.e. I executed the following command:
But things are still terribly slow. I was thinking about forgetting Gnome and seeking solace in KDE! I don't know if you ppl have any practical advice for this newbie.
I was finally able to get FreeBSD working with X-windows and KDE. I installed Gnome also. However am not given the chance to run Gnome when I type: startx at the command line. KDE seems to be default
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Hey all :)
I finally got around to installing FreeBSD 4.4, which considering it's my first attempt with *nix, didn't go too badly. I've managed to configure X and everything else, but I've got a bit of a problem, lol.
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Hi guys,
I still have "microsoft windows" eyes so this unix freebsd stuff still looks very alien to me.
Yesterday I managed to install freebsd 5.1 on my dell notebook. And today I got Gnome 2.2 working. I have this problem I can only login to Gnome with my normal user account, and not with... (1 Reply)
ps. i posted this first on UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers , Sorry about the double post
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at root command line
# pkg_add -r gnome2
This will download the latest GNOME 2.22 packages from the FreeBSD FTP site, and proceed to install them on your system.
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I have a fresh 64-bits install of FreeBSD 8.1 on a machine, but having issues with getting gnome to work.
I have followed the guidelines on FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME 2.32 FAQ
In summary that is:
pkg_add -r gnome2
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ipwatchd-gnotify
IPWATCHD-GNOTIFY(1) General Commands Manual IPWATCHD-GNOTIFY(1)NAME
ipwatchd-gnotify - Notification tool for Gnome environment
SYNOPSIS
ipwatchd-gnotify [--debug] [--broadcast] --title message_title --message message_content
ipwatchd-gnotify --version
ipwatchd-gnotify --help
DESCRIPTION
IPwatchD-G-Notify is notification tool for Gnome environment used by IPwatchD daemon to display notification "bubble" when IP conflict
occurs.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d --debug
Prints debug information to standard output.
-b --broadcast
Sends notification to all active displays. Requires root privileges.
-t --title
Specifies title of the notification window.
-m --message
Specifies message shown in the notification window.
-v --version
Prints program version to standard output.
-h --help
Prints short help information to standard output.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jaroslav Imrich <jariq@jariq.sk>
SEE ALSO ipwatchd(8), ipwatchd-script(1)IPWATCHD-GNOTIFY(1)