<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>Use Ports - they will install all the missing things and it’s really a lot easier to manage that way.</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t use GUIs in BSD - it’s not worth the headaches getting it up and running</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Jul 5, 2014, at 16:23, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" target="_blank">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>I've installed FreeBSD and it runs. Now I'm trying<br>to figure out how to install xfce and get gcc and some<br>other tools installed. What do you suggest?<br></div><br></div></blockquote>
</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I ran <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">pkg install xorg<br><br>and <br><br>pkg install xfce<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then I ran startxfce4. It brought up the desktop, but I can't<br>
move the mouse and it doesn't seem to take anything from<br>the keyboard. I read that Gnome wasn't very stable on<br>FreeBSD. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Brian<br>
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