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* Reword the compositing FAQ

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* Expand the point on starting GNOME
* Bump the Tinderbox example versions
* Add an FAQ on setting GNOME's locale using GDM
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Joe Marcus Clarke 2008-03-29 22:10:25 +00:00
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME &gnomever; FAQ">
<!ENTITY email "freebsd-gnome">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.gnome "INCLUDE">
@ -70,8 +70,10 @@ Note: links for existing questions should NEVER be changed.
Nautilus?</a>
<li> <a href="#q27">Why do I need confirm access to my keyring
every time Nautilus tries to open an external share?</a>
<li> <a href="#q28">How do I enable the window compositing in
GNOME &gnomever;?</a>
<li> <a href="#q28">How do I enable window compositing in
GNOME?</a>
<li> <a href="#q29">How can I get GDM to respect my locale
settings?</a>
</ol>
<h2>Full Text </h2>
@ -140,10 +142,15 @@ gnome_enable="YES"
services you want.</p>
<p>If you do not want to reboot immediately after the
installation, you can invoke
<tt>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start</tt> as root to
bring up the GNOME login screen (although this will not
start the other services).</p>
installation, you can invoke the following commands:</p>
<pre>
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd.sh start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start
</pre>
<p><u>Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts without
using GDM.</u></p>
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have the correct package directory, you should append
<tt>/Latest/</tt> to it so you can <tt>pkg_add gnome2</tt>
without knowing any additional version numbers. For example,
if you are installing on i386 FreeBSD 6.1, set
if you are installing on i386 FreeBSD 6.3, set
<tt>PACKAGESITE</tt> to the following:</p>
<pre>
http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/6.1-FreeBSD/Latest/
http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/6.3-FreeBSD/Latest/
</pre>
<p>If you are installing on amd64 FreeBSD 6.1, set
<p>If you are installing on amd64 FreeBSD 6.3, set
<tt>PACKAGESITE</tt> to the following:</p>
<pre>
http://cobbler.marcuscom.com/space/packages/6.1-FreeBSD/Latest/
http://cobbler.marcuscom.com/space/packages/6.3-FreeBSD/Latest/
</pre>
</li>
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</li>
<!-- Q28 -->
<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q28"></a>
<p><b>How do I enable the window compositing in GNOME &gnomever;?</b></p>
<p><b>How do I enable window compositing in GNOME?</b></p>
<!-- A28 -->
<p>This feature is turn off and not yet exposed in the preferences
by default, because not all graphics hardwares are stable enough
to support compositing. If your graphics hardwares support the
compositing and you want to use it. You can edit following in
the Metacity's gconf key:</p>
<p>Starting with GNOME 2.22, the metacity window manager includes
a compositing manager. When compositing is enabled,
widgets will get a drop shadow, and the Alt+Tab
application switcher will show previews of the
application windows.</p>
<p>Compositing is not enabled by default as not all
graphics cards and drivers will do well with it.
If your graphics card and driver support accelerated 3D
rendering and you want to use compositing you can enable
it using the following command:</p>
<pre>
gconftool-2 -s --type bool /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true
% gconftool-2 -s --type bool /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true
</pre>
<p>If you want to disable it again, replace from 'true' to 'false'
gconf key in the same way of how to enable it. Or you can use
<tt>gconf-editor</tt> to edit it.</p>
<p>If you want to disable it again, char "true" to
"false", and re-run the command.
You can also use <tt>gconf-editor</tt> to edit it.</p>
<p>If your card is supported by the "nvidia," "intel",
"i810", or "radeon" (see the radeon(4) man page to make
sure your card is supported for 3D acceleration) drivers,
then compositing should work for you.</p>
</li>
<!-- Q29 -->
<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q29"></a>
<p><b>How do I get GDM to respect my locale settings?</b></p>
<!-- A29 -->
<p>Up until GNOME 2.20, GDM would read the locale settings
from <tt>/etc/login.conf</tt> or <tt>~/.login.conf</tt>.
This was broken in 2.20, and since GDM 2.22 will use
a new locale scheme, it will not be fixed. However, all
hope is not lost. It is actually very easy to set the
locale for use with the GNOME Destop. GDM offers a
pull-down Language menu from which you can choose your
current locale. If you would rather not use this menu,
you can set the locale by adding the following to
<tt>~/.profile</tt>:</p>
<pre>
export GDM_LANG=LOCALE
</pre>
<p>Here, <tt>LOCALE</tt> is the desired locale (e.g. en_US.UTF-8,
es_ES.ISO8859-15, fr_FR.ISO8859-1, etc.).</p>
</li>
</ol>
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