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Operating Systems BSD Installing gnome on freebsd Post 302521560 by zarere on Wednesday 11th of May 2011 03:50:43 PM
Old 05-11-2011
Did you try to add also
gdm_enable="YES" in rc.conf
also make sure you have /proc mounted :
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 to to /etc/fstab

Do you have X instaled,cause you can not do startx if xorg is not installed.
pkg_add -r xorg

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gnome-panel(1)							   User Commands						    gnome-panel(1)

NAME
gnome-panel - display the GNOME panel SYNOPSIS
gnome-panel [--profile=profile] [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The GNOME panel displays an area on your screen, which acts as a repository for the main menu, application launchers, and applets. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --profile=profilUse the specified preferences profile. gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the GNOME Panel example% gnome-panel 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-panel Executable for GNOME panel ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-panel | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Working with Panels Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-panel-preferences(1), gnome-panel-screenshot(1), gnome-desktop-item-edit(1), gnome-std-options(5), attributes(5) NOTES
Written by Mark McLoughlin, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 2 Oct 2003 gnome-panel(1)
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