emerge gnome

[justwes]

Been doing that since about 3 pm est time, and when I went home for lunch (8pm est) it was still doing stuff.

After it's done instllaing and installing all the dependencies (I did a --pretend as well and it's installing X, I think). Will I need to do rc-update or anything to add it as the default x server & wm?

And if that doesn't really install an x-server, do i just do emerge xfree or something?

[lordnothing]

you need to edit /etc/rc.conf to set your default dm and wm....

[justwes]

you need to edit /etc/rc.conf to set your default dm and wm....

And I do that by

rc-update add gnome default

right?

Well I did that and got the following error

* /sbin/rc-update: /etc/init.d/gnome not found; aborting

I checked in the rc.conf file and in there Ive got xsession=gnome & displaymanager=xde. I'm going to change the dm to gde and see if that does anything for me.

[kkubasik]

no, nano -w /etc/rc.conf

the comments should explain most of it, if you have more questions, search for gentoo gnome howto, the gentoo handbook has a section on it thats quite comprehensive. Il try to post a link later.

[justwes]

I have been using the Gentoo guide and it's been a ton of help.

And I've read through the rc.conf file myself and have edited it already.

As you can see in my previous post i have it set as:

xsession=gnome & displaymanager=xde

But I wasn't sure if that's all that I needed to do.

[tylerwylie]

Look at the gnome/kde howto, for gnome upon bootup it would be gdm, but the gentoo web page has all of this if you just search a little.

[sarumont]

I have been using the Gentoo guide and it's been a ton of help.

And I've read through the rc.conf file myself and have edited it already.

As you can see in my previous post i have it set as:

xsession=gnome & displaymanager=xde

But I wasn't sure if that's all that I needed to do.

That's it. As tyler said, though, gdm is the gnome display manager, but I guess you can use xde if you like.