From 6ea69c031a31f2aaff82e65a6d3dad1f3242a899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Add a paragraph about enabling GDM, and note that using GDM is the easiest way to start GNOME. - Fix a few small grammar errors in the GNOME section and adds a few small clarity tweaks. Submitted by: adamw PR: docs/84713 --- .../books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml | 31 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml index 8e658bcd00..026e4742e3 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml @@ -1353,7 +1353,9 @@ DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 information regarding GNOME on FreeBSD can be found on the FreeBSD GNOME - Project's web site. + Project's web site. The web site also contains fairly + comprehensive FAQs about installing, configuring, and managing + GNOME. @@ -1381,12 +1383,29 @@ DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 Once GNOME is installed, the X server must be told to start GNOME instead of a default window - manager. If a custom .xinitrc is already in + manager. + + The easiest way to start + GNOME is with + GDM, the GNOME Display Manager. + GDM, which is installed as a part + of the GNOME desktop (but is + disabled by default), can be enabled by adding + gdm_enable="YES" to + /etc/rc.conf. Once you have rebooted, + GNOME will start automatically + once you log in - no further configuration is + necessary. + + GNOME may also be started + from the command-line by properly configuring a file named + .xinitrc. + If a custom .xinitrc is already in place, simply replace the line that starts the current window manager with one that starts /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session instead. - If nothing special has been done to configuration file, - then it is enough to simply type: + If nothing special has been done to the configuration file, + then it is enough simply to type: &prompt.user; echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc @@ -1394,7 +1413,7 @@ DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 GNOME desktop environment will be started. - If a display manager, like + If an older display manager, like XDM, is being used, this will not work. Instead, create an executable .xsession file with the same command in it. To do this, edit the file @@ -1406,7 +1425,7 @@ DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 &prompt.user; echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" >> ~/.xsession &prompt.user; chmod +x ~/.xsession - Another option is to configure the display manager to + Yet another option is to configure the display manager to allow choosing the window manager at login time; the section on KDE details explains how to do this for kdm, the