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Operating Systems BSD GUI not loading... Post 302357074 by _R3d on Monday 28th of September 2009 04:04:31 PM
Old 09-28-2009
i would recommend NOT going the GDM route.
if you want gnome, install gnome2-lite from ports and add the following to rc.conf:
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

then add "gnome-session" to ~/.xinitrc and run startx.
also set a proper hostname in /etc/hosts.
 

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gnome-power-preferences(1)					   User Commands					gnome-power-preferences(1)

NAME
gnome-power-preferences - gnome power preferences GUI SYNOPSIS
gnome-power-preferences [--help] [--verbose] DESCRIPTION
gnome-power-preferences is a GUI configuration program. It enables you to configure your preferred desktop power management policies, e.g. blank screen when lid is closed, hibernate system when battery power is low, suspend system when power button is pressed, or let CPU fre- quency dynamically adjust based on process load. Then, these policies are enforced by gnome-power-manager(1). OPTIONS
This program follows the usual command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --help Show summary of options. --verbose Show extra debugging. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching gnome-power-preferences with the display of extra debugging messages. example% gnome-power-preferences --verbose 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-power-preferences Executable for gnome power preferences GUI ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-power-manager | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnome-power-manager(1), gnome-power-statistics(1), attributes(5) NOTES
This manual page was written by Oliver Grawert ogra@ubuntu.com for the Debian system. Updated by Simon Zheng, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008. SunOS 5.11 18 Feb 2008 gnome-power-preferences(1)
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