On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> OpenBSD specific reading for installing GNOME is a bit hard to come >> by, and README and INSTALL don't mention GNOME, so please forgive the >> basic questions. >> >> I think GNOME is either fully installed or partially installed (I'm >> not sure if I hung in AddDelete.pl at Avahi*). I issued 'pkg_add >> gnome-desktop gnome-session'. After reboot, a window manager does not >> appear to start. 'startx' results in a desktop with wallpaper, and >> nothing more (I find it less useful than an X session with a >> terminal). >> >> Concerned about a corrupt install of Avahi, I tried to reinstall with >> 'pkg_add -D installed gnome-desktop gnome-session'. >> >> I did come across http://www.techonia.com/install-gnome-openbsd. But I >> don't believe the fellow writing told the full story (though he offers >> screen shots). For example, he did not 'chmod +x .xinitrc', so I'm not >> sure he stuff should even work. > > Following two years old post which is not official documentation for > OpenBSD is at least weird. Agreed.
>> >> Is anyone aware of a [comprehensive] GNOME HowTo for OpenBSD? > > You left off the most important part > http://www.openbsd.org/report.html so we don't know which version are > you running, which packages you have. My original problems were with the latest - OpenBSD 4.9. > What error messages you can see > (if any) during startup of X/Gnome and so on. BTW if you're on current > then there are no packages yet. OK, I deleted 4.9 and installed 4.8. I saved the console messages and started and started the gdm, avahi, and dbus daemon as instructed. No joy. Jeff
