Why is FreeBSD+GNOME not working on my Pentium laptop ?

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 04/30/16 01:50, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 04:26:47 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a 5 year old Intel x86 Pentium-based laptop (Gateway NE56R). I
>> just finished installing FreeBSD 10.3 (i386) with Gnome on it. I was
>> expecting everything to go smoothly but the Gnome desktop is proving to
>> be a disaster.
> This also was my first impression when installing Gnome 2 ("classic
> Gnome desktop") on a Dell D630 laptop running FreeBSD i386 10.2 (started
> with 10.0). There was some work to do, things to update and to install,
> scripts to abuse, crazy things to do... but after that, everything
> worked as intended. Sadly I didn't take notes on what I did, but I can
> assure you that most of it was not obvious, logical, or acceptable. :-/
>
> How did you install Gnome? Ports or packages? Which version?
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>> Most of the desktop is trash, half the application icons
>> are missing and there are no panels.
> You probably are missing some important dependency packages.
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>> Even keyboard input typed into
>> gnome-terminal is not displayed correctly (some of the characters in the
>> echo go missing).
> That _really_ sounds strange.
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>> All necessary entries (hald_enable, polkitd_enable,
>> dbus_enable, gnome_enable) are set to YES in rc.conf. I wonder what is
>> wrong ?
> Using Gnome is wrong. ;-)
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>> Is there any way I can get FreeBSD and Gnome working on the laptop ?
> Reconsider using Gnome. Check if Lxde or Xfce will work better for you.
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+1 on ditch Gnome. I am using XFCE, works AOK for me, relatively thrifty 
on RAM, etc. Love it ....


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