GNOME

GNOME is an X11 desktop environment designed to simple and easy to use. It is developed by The GNOME Project. Components of GNOME3 and later versions have been ported to NetBSD and are available through pkgsrc(meta-pkgs/gnome) and pkgsrc-wip

GNOME packages are under active development. Only Xorg session are currently supported. Input gestures are not available and haven't been tested.

Installation

A minimal GNOME session would require gnome-session, mutter, and gnome-shell. meta-pkgs/gnome offers an easy way to install the components and applications needed for running GNOME.

Running

Preparation

The D-Bus daemon must be started system-wide before attempting to run a GNOME session:

# cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/dbus /etc/rc.d
# echo "dbus=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
# service dbus start

Start GNOME manually

Add the following to the ~/.xinitrc file and run startx:

# uncomment the following line, and replace ${PREFIX} in case mutter crashes due to XCURSOR_PATH
# export XCURSOR_PATH=${PREFIX}/share/icons
exec gnome-session