Comments on: FreeBSD Gnome Installation howto

By: Sean McCullough

Sean McCullough — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:27:51 +0000

A short comment:

Linus was talking about the abomination of GNOME3/Unity when he bashed GNOME. GNOME 2 is still a perfectly good desktop environment.

GNOME3/Unity is yet another attempt to make Linux and BSD resemble MacOS X and WinDoze. Folks, if you want one of those slow bloated pieces of you-know-what, go out and buy one! But please leave our BSD and Linux alone!

By: Azendale

Azendale — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:06:02 +0000

Yes it is faster with the binary package. Using ports downloads the source and then compiles it. Ports takes more time and disk space.

By: martcan

martcan — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:40:53 +0000

dont forget to add an entry in fstab
echo “proc /proc procfs rw 0 0″ >> /etc/fstab

By: Anuar Lezama

Anuar Lezama — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:19:22 +0000

Yes indeed, is the installation faster using the binary package????

By: Kenneth Smith

Kenneth Smith — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:58:41 +0000

Great stuff – very helpful

By: Caio Ribeiro César

Caio Ribeiro César — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:49:32 +0000

# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
# make clean; make install clean

It takes so long u.u ‘ zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:55:00 +0000

I’ve been using gdm_enable=”YES” in my /etc/rc.conf file. I’m gonna try that gnome_enable=”YES” in a sec. To answer James’s question, if you’re using Vi as your editor, hit ZZ or Shift Z 2 times. If you’re using emacs I dunno. Vi is forever.

By: dns

dns — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:12:19 +0000

ctrl+x for pico and nano
ctrl+[escape] for vi :>) all the best

By: James

James — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:46:10 +0000

how do I exit out of the config file plz help me someone
yes i know im a noob with free bsd but plz help

By: sig

sig — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:12:52 +0000

This is helpful truly.

:-)

By: victor

victor — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:07:26 +0000

If u cant start gnome with “$ startx” you try “$ gdm” i used it when i couldnt start gnome with startx and it worked like magic.
all the best

By: stan

stan — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:43:25 +0000

i did everything according to the steps above, but when i log in as root and i typ ‘startx’ it says: command not found
and when i type ‘gdm’:
gdm-binary[1358]: WARNING: GDM already running. Aborting! GDM already running. Aborting!
what to do?

By: sejavu

sejavu — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:54:25 +0000

i did install gnome .
kde n gnome want to open together . how can i find select window?