[wplug] Enabling GNOME gdm on FreeBSD 9.2?

Matthew Hughes huesm at aol.com
Fri Oct 18 17:01:13 EDT 2013


Was enabled with GhostBSD and I used a desktop with FreeBSD back in version
3.3. Though I can't remember how so not all that usefull.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:

> I know it's not Linux, but it's in a similar spirit....  ;-)
>
> Has anyone out there successfully enabled the GNOME gdm display manager
> on FreeBSD 9.2?
>
> What I have done so far is to install the GNOME "meta-package", and have
> put the following into /etc/rc.conf:
>
> dbus_enable="YES"
> gnome_enable="YES"
> gdm_enable="YES"
>
> Even after doing this, the display manager doesn't start.
>
> Am I missing something obvious?  I've never actually tried to use a
> desktop environment on FreeBSD before, so I might just be completely
> confused about what I'm supposed to do....
>
> --Pat.
>
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