Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Installing gnome on freebsd
Operating Systems BSD Installing gnome on freebsd Post 302494139 by figaro on Saturday 5th of February 2011 02:39:46 PM
Old 02-05-2011
Installing gnome on freebsd
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
Add gnome_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf
After a reboot and logging in, there is no automatic start of gnome. The command startx gives: Command not found.

I then deinstalled gnome2 and instead installed gnome2-lite from ports and added the following to rc.conf:
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
and kept gnome_enable="YES" as the last line.

I then added "exec gnome-session" to ~/.xinitrc and ran startx. Again a Command not found. Also tried "exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session" in .xinitrc.
After a reboot startx gave the same response.

Would could be wrong and how do I get gnome to work on this machine?
 

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Start Gnome in FreeBSD 4.5

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 How can I run Gnome too? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lancest
1 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

FreeBSD 4.4 Uninstalling KDE or GNOME

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. I installed KDE and GNOME. I had a rough idea as to what they were, but I... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: hellz
5 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

installed GNOME on FreeBSD! need help with several things

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)
Discussion started by: Dalma
1 Replies

4. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

installed GNOME on FreeBSD! need help with several things

ps. i posted this first on UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers , Sorry about the double post 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... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Dalma
2 Replies

5. BSD

installing FreeBSD

hi everybody i'm now downloading FreeBSD using anonymous ftp...the problem i'll encounter is that it seems to be a huge archive.... I want just install it over a 8 G disk....how can i manage this? thanks regards (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: hmaiida
3 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Installing Freebsd

Hi All Hope this is not going to upset you but i really need help. I'm new to Unix (Brand New) have never worked on a unix system before in my life so please bear with me. I'm in the process to install Freebsd but have no idea how to go ahead. The system that i have does not have any cd... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: stunner
3 Replies

7. BSD

Help with installing Gnome on FreeBSD

Recently, i have installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my computer. I then proceeded to install the latest version of Gnome. I went to the FreeBSD handbook and looked up how to set Gnome as my default window manager, and for some reason it did not work. I was wondering what exactly the command is to do set... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jgmyshko
4 Replies

8. BSD

Install Gnome 2.22 in FreeBSD

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. Up-to-date GNOME packages for i386 and amd64 for all supported versions of FreeBSD are also available from the GNOME Tinderbox.... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: very9music
0 Replies

9. BSD

Gnome 2.2 gets very sluggish on FreeBSD 7

hello guys & gals 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... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sirbijan
5 Replies

LEARN ABOUT SUSE

gnome-power-manager

GNOME-POWER-MANAGER(1)													    GNOME-POWER-MANAGER(1)

NAME

       gnome-power-manager - gnome power manager userspace daemon

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-power-manager [ --verbose ] [ --debug ] [ --help ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the gnome-power-manager command.

       gnome-power-manager  is	the  backend  program of the GNOME power management infrastructure providing a complete and integrated solution to
       power management under the GNOME desktop environment.

       It supports features such as suspending, hibernating, screen blanking, cpu frequency switching and more in one small neat package.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU 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.

		 --no-daemon
	      Do not detach gnome-power-manager into the background so that error messages will be displayed on console.

		 --debug
	      Only show specific debugging options. Useful for developers only.

SEE ALSO

       gnome-power-preferences (1).

       The programs are documented fully on http://gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/ .

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> for the Debian system and updated by Ow Mun Heng <nikeow@yahoo.com>

								   05 July 2010 					    GNOME-POWER-MANAGER(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:19 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy