Building & Installing Gnome 3

[sqlpython]

Just want to say that this is one of the most viewed Posts on these Forums 9,431 in a 1 year period...
Apparently, this is info that many people thought they needed to know about.
Yet, I believe only 4 thank yous... ????
I am going to add my Thank You.
I don't use Gnome 2 or 3 and have no plans to use it.
However nice job ...

[malco_2001]

Thanks for that info sqlpython. Until you mentioned it I did not realized this post had so many views. Wow!

I am currently in the process of testing Mate with PCBSD. However I have not given up on getting gnome 3 to work nicely with PCBSD. I plan to retry using failback mode only to see how that works until the issues with gnome-shell can be resolved. I also plan to try it other wise with gnome-shell enabled and debug the hell out of it. Hopefully I can help those marcuscom guys.

However what came to mind when you mentioned it the amount of views. I’m not really sure how to properly contact the Gnome team to make a suggestion. I will have to look into that. I’m just thinking it might be worth letting them know how much interest we have had here of getting Gnome 3 running on PCBSD/FreeBSD.

[malco_2001]

Thanks for that info sqlpython. Until you mentioned it I did not realized this post had so many views. Wow!

I am currently in the process of testing Mate with PCBSD. However I have not given up on getting gnome 3 to work nicely with PCBSD. I plan to retry using failback mode only to see how that works until the issues with gnome-shell can be resolved. I also plan to try it other wise with gnome-shell enabled and debug the hell out of it. Hopefully I can help those marcuscom guys if they don’t figure it out first.

However what came to mind when you mentioned it the amount of views. I’m not really sure how to properly contact the Gnome team to make a suggestion. I will have to look into that. I’m just thinking it might be worth letting them know how much interest we have had here of getting Gnome 3 running on PCBSD/FreeBSD. That's what the porting team really needs is more help.

[sqlpython]

Personally, I do like and will use Gnome2 when encountered.
I find GNome3 less then straight forward and maybe a bit glitzy...Bling..
Anyway go for it. It is good to have choices.

[malco_2001]

[bds]

@malco -- that's nice!

[malco_2001]

For the most part I've gotten it to run fairly stable minus a few remaining issues with the gnome-keyring not working and gdm not working which are being worked on. Other than that I am very happy with it!! It's so nice to be able to use Gnome 3 with my existing PBI's, and the full suite of control panel tools, and the warden.

If anyone would like to try this I would recommend one of 2 options.

1.) install PCBSD with no window manager, and then use pkg_delete or pkg_deinstall to remove all gnome and libgnome ports. Otherwise you will run into dependancy hell when you try to install it. I chose option #1 so I could use an rdp session to another desktop using fluxbox to work while I was building ports.

Then download and run as root the marcuscom script after updating ports. Make sure you have kernel src installed.
fetch http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge
sh ./marcusmerge -u -m ports -s /usr/src

2.) install FreeBSD and then build the PCBSD tools on top of it after installing x11 and gnome 3 and slim. I want to stay away from this subject right now as for me that falls out of the scope of this thread I think but here is a guide to give an idea of how to accomplish this.

http://blog.pcbsd.org/2012/07/new-fe...the-impatient/


For root on ZFS users I would recommend using snapshots at every turn for
/usr/ports/
/usr/ports/distfiles
/ROOT/default
/usr/home

[malco_2001]

malco_2001 : can you look at Cinnamon "http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=90721" if you can get it work on PC-BSD !? Thanks in advance..

I found a shar from Mezz of the marcuscom team for cinnamon. I plan to debug this as well as lightdm. In the meantime if anyone wants to have a go at it here is the link.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/

[malco_2001]

I forgot to mention though that I speculate and I hope PCBSD may be getting it's own login manager btw. I've tried it and it's not a bad start btw.
http://trac.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd-projects/PCDM

[malco_2001]

gdm was fixed today