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This file contains some notes about running GNOME on OpenBSD.

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$OpenBSD: README.OpenBSD,v 1.1 2008/01/24 11:43:31 jasper Exp $
The OpenBSD/GNOME desktop

* Introduction
The gnome-session package will install a minimal working GNOME desktop.
It provides you with the basic interface (including themes), a control
panel, a terminal, a text editor and a lot more other utilities.

This file will briefly explain to you how to make this experience more
pleasant.

* Installing more packages
If your needs aren't satisfied yet, there are many other packages
you can install. The most important ones will be mentioned by category:

 - Communication
   * empathy - Telepathy based messenger
   * epiphany - lightweight and simple web browser
   * evolution - integrated email and PIM software
   * gossip - Jabber client

 - Accessibility
   * dasher - predictive text input system

 - Development
   * devel-docs - developer documentation
   * devhelp - API documentation browser
   * gedit-plugins - plugins for Gedit
   * zenity - easy-to-script dialogs

 - Utilities
   * eog - image viewer and categorizer
   * evince - document viewer for multiple document formats
   * file-roller - archive manager
   * gcalctool - desktop calculator
   * ggv - frontend for GhostScript
   * gucharmap - Unicode character map
   * planner - project management
   * seahorse - encryption keys manager

* Startup and more documentation
One can log in using the login manager, GDM. Or by using the 'startx' command.
In order to use the latter, add a line like the following to your .xinitrc
or .xsession script: 'exec !!PREFIX!!/bin/gnome-session' .

For more information on using OpenBSD packages please refer to:
http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/faq15.html . For more general information on
using GNOME, please see: http://live.gnome.org/ .