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gnome-48p2 – GNOME desktop meta-package (core installation) (cvsweb github mirror)

Description

The GNOME desktop, core installation based on a subset of:
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/blob/master/elements/core.bst
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/blob/master/elements/core-deps.bst
WWW: https://www.gnome.org/

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(see "Cheat sheet" at the end of this file for a quick setup)

The GNOME desktop is composed of 2 meta-packages:
    * gnome, for a standard GNOME installation
    * gnome-extras, for a full GNOME installation

The "gnome" package is focused on generic usage to give the user the
choice to install his favorite applications for daily usage (i.e. PIM,
WWW browser, office and development applications have been left out on
purpose).

Starting GNOME
==============

DBus
----
Before running gnome-session(1), a system-wide D-Bus daemon needs to be
running ("messagebus" must be added to "pkg_scripts" in rc.conf.local(8)).

GDM
---
Session management requires the use of GDM as login manager, otherwise
some key features like screen locking, session tracking... will not work
properly. To do so, "gdm" must be added at the end of "pkg_scripts" in
rc.conf.local(8) (and "xenodm_flags" commented or removed).

Locales
-------
Default language and character set for GNOME by the GDM greeter are set in:
    ${SYSCONFDIR}/gdm/locale.conf
Note that the variables set in this file will be inherited by the user session.
They can be unset/overriden in the user's .profile file or by using
gnome-control-center.

Alternative (non-GDM) GNOME startup
-----------------------------------
*** NOT RECOMMENDED ***
To start GNOME without GDM, the following line needs to be added:
    exec ${LOCALBASE}/bin/ck-launch-session ${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/gnome-session
to ~/.xinitrc when using startx(1) (console login)
to ~/.xsession when using xenodm(1) (or similar login)

mDNS/DNS-SD support
===================
The avahi-daemon(8) daemon provides Zeroconf support (aka. Bonjour /
Rendezvous) in GNOME. Several applications can optionally benefit from
it (e.g. the "Network" shortcut in nautilus(1)) while some others
will not work at all without it (e.g. seahorse-sharing(1)).

To make use of it, rc.conf.local(8) needs to contain the following line:
    multicast=YES
and "avahi_daemon" must be added to "pkg_scripts" _after_ "messagebus".

Cheat sheet
===========
# rcctl disable xenodm
# rcctl enable multicast messagebus avahi_daemon gdm
# reboot

Maintainer

Antoine Jacoutot

Multi-packages

gnome-48p2 gnome-extras-48

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