[wplug] Enabling GNOME gdm on FreeBSD 9.2?

[Pat Barron]

As is traditional with FreeBSD, the default install includes no desktop 
envrionment at all - just a "login:" prompt on a text console...  GNOME 
is available to install (and I've done so - at least, as far as I can 
tell), but I haven't yet figured out how to set it up to start gdm when 
the system boots.

I had a graphical "desktop' of sorts set up back in FreeBSD 2.2 days, 
but that just involved logging in and running "startx" to start twm and 
some xterm's....  ;-)

--Pat.

On 10/18/2013 5:01 PM, Matthew Hughes wrote:
> 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.
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:
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>> 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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