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Installing gnome on freebsd
Post 302527769 by figaro on Sunday 5th of June 2011 08:41:32 AM
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gnome-about
gnome-about(1) User Commands gnome-about(1) NAME
gnome-about - display GNOME introductory information SYNOPSIS
gnome-about [--gnome-version] [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The GNOME introductory dialog displays a list of the GNOME contributors, and provides links to some useful GNOME websites. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --gnome-version Display information on this GNOME version. gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Displaying the GNOME introductory information example% gnome-about 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-about Executable for GNOME introductory information display. /usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml XML source of GNOME version, build date and introductory text for the application. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-panel | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5) Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. NOTES
The gnome-version.xml file format is classified as Volatile and its stability should not be relied upon. Written by Mark McLoughlin, updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006, 2007. SunOS 5.11 09 Nov 2007 gnome-about(1)