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running gnome on openbsd 4.0

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

OpenBSD doesn’t come with gnome pre-installed like some GNU/Linux distros such as gNewSense and Ubuntu do. Instead, you have to add the gnome packages and modify your ~/.xinitrc.

Begin by installing the gnome packages as root (change amd64 for your architecture):

# export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/amd64/
# pkg_add gnome-desktop
# pkg_add gnome-session

Then, using your non-privileged account, add the following to ~/.xinitrc:

$ gnome-session

When you want to start X with gnome, just run this command:

$ startx

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