gnome desktop manager

2011-05-06 Thread pwnedomina
im using fluxbox but i want to add gnome desktop manager after the boot in order to have a GUI manager for select which users i want to log on, what is the way to accomplish this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: gnome desktop manager

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 06 May 2011 20:19:52 +, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: im using fluxbox but i want to add gnome desktop manager after the boot in order to have a GUI manager for select which users i want to log on, what is the way to accomplish this? Install gdm (the Gnome _display_

Re: gnome desktop manager

2011-05-06 Thread pwnedomina
Em 06-05-2011 19:39, Polytropon escreveu: On Fri, 06 May 2011 20:19:52 +, pwnedominapwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: im using fluxbox but i want to add gnome desktop manager after the boot in order to have a GUI manager for select which users i want to log on, what is the way to accomplish

Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I have a 6.4-STABLE machine running in command line only for my Apache webserver. I'm thinking of installing a Gnome desktop on it for my 5 y/o grandson and grown daughter to use so they won't be pestering me to use my pc. The 5 y/o won't need anything except Firefox, some disk-based games

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread ocean
/152728.html regards ocean Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I have a 6.4-STABLE machine running in command line only for my Apache webserver. I'm thinking of installing a Gnome desktop on it for my 5 y/o grandson and grown daughter to use so they won't be pestering me to use my pc. The 5 y/o won't need

RE: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
-Questions' Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o i think it could go fine on this computer, use gnome lite and also add the needed ports to have a fairly nice system (gnome-backgrounds etc...). compile from ports with some optimizations (-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing and consider if -pipe could be used

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. Please don't top post, thanks. No there is no OOBE w/ flash. To get a

RE: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
-Original Message- From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:56 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread krad
2009/12/8 Charles Howse cho...@charter.net -Original Message- From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:56 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread ocean
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock)

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread usleepless
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Al Plant
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most

RE: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of krad Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:24 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o 2009/12/8 Charles Howse cho

Blundered with gnome-desktop

2009-03-27 Thread manish jain
Hi all, I blundered - I downloaded the latest ports tarball and did a 'make install' in deskutils/conduit. The conduit port asked for a deinstall followed by a reinstall in gnome-desktop, which I promptly complied with. As was bound to happen, everything in gnome is now broken/paralysed

Re: Blundered with gnome-desktop

2009-03-27 Thread rasz
manish jain wrote: Hi all, I blundered - I downloaded the latest ports tarball and did a 'make install' in deskutils/conduit. The conduit port asked for a deinstall followed by a reinstall in gnome-desktop, which I promptly complied with. As was bound to happen, everything in gnome is now

Re: Blundered with gnome-desktop

2009-03-27 Thread manish jain
rasz wrote: manish jain wrote: Hi all, I blundered - I downloaded the latest ports tarball and did a 'make install' in deskutils/conduit. The conduit port asked for a deinstall followed by a reinstall in gnome-desktop, which I promptly complied with. As was bound to happen, everything

Re: restrict gnome desktop user.

2008-10-25 Thread en0f
joeb wrote: How do it configure gnome to restrict users to their home directory? I don't want them to be able see any system directories or other users? Dont know about gnome per se but you can use chroot/jails to restrict users to see only stuffs you want them to see for any environment. Just

RE: restrict gnome desktop user.

2008-10-25 Thread joeb
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of en0f Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: restrict gnome desktop user. joeb wrote: How do it configure gnome to restrict users to their home directory? I don't

restrict gnome desktop user.

2008-10-24 Thread joeb
How do it configure gnome to restrict users to their home directory? I don't want them to be able see any system directories or other users? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Gnome desktop crash recovery

2007-06-13 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi everybody , This is Dhanesh ,I m a newbe to FreeBsd , I had a intel p4 box with FreeBSD-6.1 Os with Gnome 2.18. installed and , this desktop working fine for last 2 months . Mean while I tried to installOpenOffice from ports collection for this box , but it is asking for

Re: Gnome desktop crash recovery

2007-06-13 Thread Christian Walther
On 13/06/07, dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody , [...] I tried to continue the portupgrade -aP command again but its showing errors , Stale dependency : at-spi-1.18.1_1 xmlcatmgr-2.2 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix , or specify -0 to force asking pkgdb -F to

Re: starting GDM gets me an xterm, not the Gnome desktop

2007-05-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
typed gdm from the prompt, nothing happened. So, I went back into sysinstall and chose gdm(usually it gets installed as a D). After the gdm install, I did startx as root, got the xterm, typed gdm, got the gdm dialog box and logged in. Instead of getting the gnome desktop, I got an xterm

starting GDM gets me an xterm, not the Gnome desktop

2007-05-07 Thread Bob Middaugh
. So, I went back into sysinstall and chose gdm(usually it gets installed as a D). After the gdm install, I did startx as root, got the xterm, typed gdm, got the gdm dialog box and logged in. Instead of getting the gnome desktop, I got an xterm session. This has never happened to me before, and I

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/4/05, Robert Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Music cd's can not be mounted. However in gnome, if you use the gnome audio tools, like totem?? you do not need to mount, it will automatically start playing. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB compact flash card reader. FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 Many thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB compact flash card reader. FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 Many thanks mkdir ~/Desktop

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
contents. I must have done it wromg. Any more help? PT On 11/3/05, Robert Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Marella
icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB compact flash card reader. FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 Many thanks mkdir ~/Desktop/floppy mkdir ~/Desktop/dvdrom mkdir ~/Desktop/flash Speak the magic incantation Beastie is better

Nautilus errors during Gnome Desktop startup...

2005-02-10 Thread Kiffin Gish
All of a sudden, my Gnome desktop is not starting up correctly anymore. The splash screen displays the usual startup icons one after the other: until Nautilus. After that the mouse-pointer remains a thick cross and the usual window handling stuff has broken down completely. When I close down

gnome desktop ?

2005-01-23 Thread faisal gillani
Well i installed all the packages needed for gnome desktop , but when i startx a plain dull desktop manager comes , what can be wrong ? how to start gnome ? = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do you Yahoo!? The all

gnome desktop ?

2005-01-23 Thread faisal gillani
Well i installed all the packages needed for gnome desktop , but when i startx a plain dull desktop manager comes , what can be wrong ? how to start gnome ? = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do you Yahoo

Re: gnome desktop ?

2005-01-23 Thread albi
faisal gillani wrote: Well i installed all the packages needed for gnome desktop , but when i startx a plain dull desktop manager comes , what can be wrong ? how to start gnome ? install gdm, or try the following : echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc and type startx

Re: gnome desktop ?

2005-01-23 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:44:25 -0800 (PST) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well i installed all the packages needed for gnome desktop , but when i startx a plain dull desktop manager comes , what can be wrong ? how to start gnome ? In the absence of a .xinitrc the default wm

Re: gnome desktop ?

2005-01-23 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Another option would be to start the GNOME display manager (GDM) at boot time using /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh Miguel Mendez schrieb: On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:44:25 -0800 (PST) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well i installed all the packages needed for gnome desktop , but when i startx