Gnome & FreeBSD

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote:

> Good day all,
>
> I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I
> am  considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used
> for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway.
> The reason is that most of my favorite applications
> use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used
> to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I
> wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt)
> by not installing KDE.
> I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it
> polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at
> all?
There is a minimal gnome installation in
 	/usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite
you can start with that and - if you like it - add all the the 
other stuff. 
One caveat:
First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2) and check if 
your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly.

Greetings,

Uli.

>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany