Re: Gnome 5th toe packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 November 2004 19:10, Danny Browne wrote: > I'm sure i'll get my head bitten off for posting this in here, but i'm not > getting any replys from any of the gnome forums. > > Does any 1 know what packages i need to install to get this working > properly? I assumed that the gnome2-fifth-toe package would install > everything it neeeded itself, but obviously not, since i had to install > gnome2session and gnome2controllcenter myself from ports just to get gnome > to work at all. I'm still having a number of problems with it though; First install the gnome2 meta-port/package, then install gnome2-fifth-toe. This should fetch all required run-time dependencies. You can read a lot of FreeBSD related information about gnome here: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html > 1. gdm seems not to be not starting up (and yes i have replaced xdm with > gdm in my /etc/ttys) You overlooked gdm's pkg-message. You can re-view it by using the pkg_info command 'pkg_info -D gdm2'. > 2. Even when gnome starts up alot of the packages installed by fifth toe > (such as the GIMP, gstreamer, totem and many more) are not showing up in > the applications menu. Gimp and Totem should show up in the apps menu, if they are installed. Maybe there are some gnome2 dependencies missing on your system, so things don't work as expected. Gstreamer is a development framework, not a media-player. > 3. gaelon browser operates VERY VERY slowly > > 4. dialogs popup on startup displaying error messages about one of the > applets gnome attempted to start on the menu bars (but only for one of the > applets) What says the message-text? > 5. standard packages like unzip for tar balls are not present. if i right > click a tar ball there is no unzip or extract option. The archive manager's online help says that "If you have the appropiate command-line tools installed on your system ...". This means you need to decide which archivers you want to use and install them. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/archivers.html shows a list of FreeBSD archiver ports. Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBmU3X09WjGjvKU74RAgLaAJsEB/8OGiB/Ea3SLp2UtcSGFXtYcACfWSNT GOuoO/0eIU66ZKwQS7xQFrs= =nf7Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Gnome 5th toe packages
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:10:01PM +, Danny Browne wrote: > Does the Gnome2 package need to be installed aswell as Gnome2-fifth-toe or > something? Yes; the fifth-toe package contains *extra* gnome applications, and is not required for gnome to work. > Lastly (this may help you) BSD did not install X server when i installed the > OS for some reason. so i installed it myself form the ports (XFree86-4) is > there possibly a confilct between this and the XF86-3 components Gnome seems > to have insatlled? Or is there some other packages from X server that need to > be installed. Nothing uses XFree86 3.x any more. Under 4.x the default is to use XFree86 4.x; under 5.x it is to use x-org 6.x. Kris P.S. Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so that your emails may be easily read. pgp2pwYgXlfTZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Gnome 5th toe packages
I'm sure i'll get my head bitten off for posting this in here, but i'm not getting any replys from any of the gnome forums. Does any 1 know what packages i need to install to get this working properly? I assumed that the gnome2-fifth-toe package would install everything it neeeded itself, but obviously not, since i had to install gnome2session and gnome2controllcenter myself from ports just to get gnome to work at all. I'm still having a number of problems with it though; 1. gdm seems not to be not starting up (and yes i have replaced xdm with gdm in my /etc/ttys) 2. Even when gnome starts up alot of the packages installed by fifth toe (such as the GIMP, gstreamer, totem and many more) are not showing up in the applications menu. 3. gaelon browser operates VERY VERY slowly 4. dialogs popup on startup displaying error messages about one of the applets gnome attempted to start on the menu bars (but only for one of the applets) 5. standard packages like unzip for tar balls are not present. if i right click a tar ball there is no unzip or extract option. These are only the problems i have come accross in the last hour since i installed gnome so i presume there are more. System info; 1. FreeBSD 4.10 i386 2. Up2Date Ports 3. Gnome 2.8.1 4. No previous installation of GNOME (or any other desktop environment) so no conflict there. Does the Gnome2 package need to be installed aswell as Gnome2-fifth-toe or something? Lastly (this may help you) BSD did not install X server when i installed the OS for some reason. so i installed it myself form the ports (XFree86-4) is there possibly a confilct between this and the XF86-3 components Gnome seems to have insatlled? Or is there some other packages from X server that need to be installed. i'm really sorry if this pisses any1 off, i'd be quite happy to research the soloution myself, but there is basically no documentation that i can find on installation procedures/needed packages for 5th toe. Regards, Danny Browne _ Sign up for eircom broadband now and get a free two month trial.* Phone 1850 73 00 73 or visit http://home.eircom.net/broadbandoffer ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
