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Operating Systems BSD Gnome 2.2 gets very sluggish on FreeBSD 7 Post 302277956 by thenrie on Monday 19th of January 2009 01:40:50 AM
Old 01-19-2009
After getting gnome2 by pkg_add -r or through ports, all you have to do to enable it is add the line:

gnome_enable="YES"

to /etc/rc.conf.

Your hostname issue can be resolved by adding your machine's name to /etc/rc.conf:

hostname="your machine's name"

and to /etc/hosts by adding your machine's name to the local host line, such as:

::1 yourmachine yourmachine.local locallhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1 yourmachine yourmachine.local localhost localhost.my.domain

You can also set up gnome to start only for specific users, in case some users might wish to use other windows managers, by creating the file ~/.xinitrc in the user's home directory and adding the line

start gnome-session

Then the user types "startx" (or is it "xstart"?) at login to start the gnome session.

I think that will do what you need. I think you can also go back to the FreeBSD installer by typing the command "sysinstall" and use the options there for setting up your Internet connections. The wizard asks you to set your machine's name and automatically sets up the hostname and /etc/hosts file. Maybe that would do it.

Tony
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gnome-session-save

gnome-session-save(1)                                              User Commands                                             gnome-session-save(1)

NAME

       gnome-session-save - saves or terminates the current GNOME session

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-session-save [--kill] [--gui] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-session-save can be used from a GNOME session to save a snapshot of the currently running applications. This session will be restored
       at your next GNOME startup session.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --gui           Shows a dialog when the session is saved, and reports errors in dialog boxes instead of printing to stderr.

       --kill          Terminates the GNOME session.

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Saving the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save

       Example 2: Terminating the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill

       Example 3: Using the GUI to terminate the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill --gui

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        Application exited successfully

       >0       Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-session-sThe command-line executable for the application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWgnome-session            |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability          |External                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-std-options(5), default.session(5), gnome-smproxy(1), gnome-session(1)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10                                                          13 Jan 2003                                              gnome-session-save(1)
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