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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-audio-profiles-properties(1)				   User Commands				gnome-audio-profiles-properties(1)

NAME
gnome-audio-profiles-properties - the GNOME audio profile manager SYNOPSIS
gnome-audio-profiles-properties [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
gnome-audio-profiles-properties enables you to configure and create audio recording profiles. Audio recording applications such as gnome- sound-recorder use these profiles to determine how audio should be recorded and stored to audio files. New audio profiles can be created, and existing audio profiles can be either edited or deleted using the GNOME audio profile manager. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the GNOME Audio Profile Manager example% gnome-audio-profiles-properties 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-audio-proExecutableeforethe GNOME audio profile manager ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-media | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-std-options(5), gnome-sound-recorder(1) NOTES
Written by Niall Power, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.10 7 Sep 2004 gnome-audio-profiles-properties(1)
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