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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers installed GNOME on FreeBSD! need help with several things Post 37579 by Dalma on Sunday 22nd of June 2003 07:51:45 PM

06-22-2003

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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 working. I have this problem I can only login to Gnome with my normal user account, and not with the "root" account, not sure why that is. Stuff like "GDM configurator" I cannot open with my normal user account. Maybe anyone knows why this is?

I read a few basics on freebsd and Gnome from the links you guys gave me but i am still not getting a few things. With windows i used to download this app , just double click on setup and it installs. I go to start programs, and there it is hehe.

With GNOME it's completely different. I tried to install GnomeICU (some kind of icq app) but it didn't work. I downloaded the gz file and extracted it in a new folder on my /home/username/downloads. The helpfile says just type install from the command line util or from the root type make install but nothing happens. I am not sure what to do when i extracted these apps. In windows you look for the setup.exe but what is it in unix.

One other thing. I installed Mozilla and it worked . One problem though. I can't find any shortcuts to mozilla. I would like to make a shortcut on my desktop or as a new panel next to the desktop panel on GNOME. I have no idea where to look at. When i open file manager and i enter an url, on the left of the file manager i get to see 2 options, open with mozilla, or open with another util...

Any help appreciated!

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Gnome(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						  Gnome(3)

NAME

       Gnome - Perl module for the Gnome libraries

SYNOPSIS

	       use Gnome;
	       Gnome->init('myapp');
	       my $app = new Gnome::App("myapp", "myapp window title");
	       $app->create_menus({type => 'subtree', label => '_File',
		       subtree => [
		       ['item', '_Quit', undef, sub {exit}, 'stock', 'Quit'],
	       ]});
	       my $canvas = new Gnome::Canvas;
	       $canvas->set_scroll_region(0, 0, 300, 300);
	       $canvas->set_usize(300, 300);
	       $canvas->root->new($canvas->root, 'Rect',
		       x1 => 10, y1 => 10, x2 => 150, y2 => 250,
		       fill_color => '#0f0ef2', outline_color => 'black');
	       $app->set_contents($canvas);
	       $app->show_all;
	       Gtk->main;

DESCRIPTION

       The Gtk module allows Perl access to the widgets and other facilities in the Gnome libraries. You can find more information about Gnome on
       http://www.gnome.org.  The Perl binding tries to follow the C interface as much as possible, providing at the same time a fully object ori-
       ented interface and Perl-style calling conventions.

       You will find the reference documentation for the Gnome module in the "Gnome::reference" manpage. More information can be found on
       http://gtkperl.org.

AUTHOR

       Kenneth Albanowski, Paolo Molaro

SEE ALSO

       perl(1), Gtk(3pm), Gtk::reference(3pm), Gnome::reference(3pm)

perl v5.8.0							    2001-06-26								  Gnome(3)