Install gnome

David Demelier demelier.david at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 20:07:41 UTC 2011


On 16/01/2011 20:50, Alokat wrote:
> On 01/16/2011 08:37 PM, David Demelier wrote:
>> On 16/01/2011 20:02, Alokat wrote:
>>> It works now.
>>>
>>> But after gdm is started I just see a small line (for the username) but
>>> this line is too small.
>>>
>>> I have installed xorg and configured it as in the documentation.
>>>
>>> cYa,
>>> alokat
>>>
>>> On 01/16/2011 07:20 PM, Alokat wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I want to install gnome on my blank freeBSD.
>>>>
>>>> pkg_add -r gnome2
>>>>
>>>> Do I have to install something more (like the XServer) or does Gnome
>>>> depends on X11 so it will be installed automatically?
>>>>
>>>> cYa
>>>>
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>>
>> You need procfs mounted under /proc
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#procfs
>>
>> Add the following in your /etc/fstab :
>>
>> proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
>>
> Cool it works ... thank you.
>
> But why was this the error?
>
> cYa,
> alokat
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There are no errors, a lot of desktop applications uses /proc 
filesystem. I don't know why. Maybe for sharing information between 
processes.

:-)

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David Demelier


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