Trouble running KDE or Gnome

[Bernard Mentink]

Hi John,

Appreciate the explanation.
However, the description of the FreeBSD setup for gnome and the DFly one
are quite different.

The FreeBSD one says to start dbus and hald  via rc.conf. Dfly does not say
to do that.

If I follow FreeBSD instructions KDE won't work at all, because KDE starts
dbus itself and bombs out if it is already running. So at least Dfly works
with KDE by NOT starting dbus in rc.conf ..

So you can see my confusion ...

Gnome does not work following either instructions .. but is worse following
FreeBSD instructions. (crashes when it starts)

So if anyone has got Gnome working, I would love some correct instructions
..

PS: Man pages don't help a new user get up and running when they are used
to the Linux way of doing things .... for example, the Lack of the lspci
instruction means I can't see what module I need to load  for my audio
hardware ...

Cheers,
bernie

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 9:02 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:

> On 6/26/2016 3:38 AM, Bernard Mentink wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> So why should I use the FreeBSD instructions? I thought this was
>> DragonFlyBSD forum?
>>
>> I used the instructions from
>> here: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/X/#index2h2
>>
>> Are you saying I should not use the DFly instructions to setup DFly?
>>
>> That is just weird ..
>>
>
> Hi Bernard,
> Of course it would be ideal if DragonFly documentation was at the same
> level as FreeBSD but the fact is that this is not the case.  FreeBSD has an
> entire team whose primary responsibility is documentation.
>
> Now you may be aware that DragonFly DPorts is basically FreeBSD ports made
> to work on DragonFly.  As such, instructions to install third-party
> software on FreeBSD are good for DragonFly as well.  So it's not weird to
> reference FreeBSD documentation when DPorts are involved as is the case
> here.
>
> As a last thought, our handbook is a living wiki.  Some people have
> improved KDE instructions recently, but if you think it needs more then you
> have the ability to write these improvements so everyone can benefit.
>
> DragonFly MAN pages are top notch, but the handbook / wiki is not at the
> same quality level (and in some cases are poor quality).
>
> John
>
>
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