xorg/XFree86 and gnome

Peter Ulrich Kruppa root at pukruppa.de
Thu Jun 17 11:03:02 PDT 2004


On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

The following is obsolete. I forgot to install xorg-fontserver.
I also fixed pkgdb -F
All gnome stuff now runs as usual and I will try to marcusmerge 
and portupgrade.

Uli.
> Generally gnome still works, but gdm doesn't come up automatically anymore. I 
> use
> # xinit
> and type
> # gnome-session
> into the default xterm.
> Strange things I found yet:
> - mozilla and friends vanished from the gnome menu (but still can
>  be run from an xterm) - midnight-commander displays in a very weak blue 
> color
> - some gnome-applets don't work
> - of course some hundred stale dependencies in pkgdb
>
> Resume: no fatal problems, but many inconviniences and a lot of RTFM to do.
>
> Regards,
>
> Uli.
>
>
>
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