$OpenBSD: README.OpenBSD,v 1.2 2008/03/16 17:52:34 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
* pessulus - lockdown editor for desktop
* 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/ .
