[gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/doc/en: gnome-config.xml

["Joshua Saddler (nightmorph)" <nightmorph@gentoo.org>]

nightmorph    09/09/01 23:58:43

  Modified:             gnome-config.xml
  Log:
  Update the guide for pending 2.26 stuff, bug 281423

Revision  Changes    Path
1.27                 xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml

file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml?rev=1.27&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml?rev=1.27&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml?r1=1.26&r2=1.27

Index: gnome-config.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.26
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -u -r1.26 -r1.27
--- gnome-config.xml	23 May 2008 20:00:57 -0000	1.26
+++ gnome-config.xml	1 Sep 2009 23:58:43 -0000	1.27
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml,v 1.26 2008/05/23 20:00:57 swift Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml,v 1.27 2009/09/01 23:58:43 nightmorph Exp $ -->
 
 <guide link="/doc/en/gnome-config.xml">
 <title>The GNOME Configuration HOWTO</title>
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
 <license/>
 
-<version>1.19</version>
-<date>2007-11-13</date>
+<version>1.20</version>
+<date>2009-09-01</date>
 
 <chapter>
 <title>What is GNOME?</title>
@@ -128,27 +128,6 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-If you paid attention to the output of your previous <c>emerge</c> command,
-you'll notice that it suggests using <c>gamin</c> to have nautilus and
-gnome-vfs monitor file changes:
-</p>
-
-<pre caption="Installing gamin, a file alteration monitor">
-# <i>emerge gamin</i>
-</pre>
-
-<impo>
-If you are switching from <c>fam</c> (the old, deprecated file monitor) to
-<c>gamin</c>, you will need to remove <c>famd</c> from all runlevels and then
-unmerge it:
-</impo>
-
-<pre caption="Optional: switching to gamin from fam">
-# <i>rc-update del famd</i>
-# <i>emerge --unmerge app-admin/fam</i>
-</pre>
-
-<p>
 Next we'll clean up the remaining services.
 </p>
 
@@ -182,6 +161,18 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
+Starting with <c>gnome-base/gnome-session-2.26.2</c>, you will need to prepend
+the XDG_MENU_PREFIX variable to get the Gnome menus if you're using the
+<path>~/.xinitrc</path> method to start your desktop. (If you're not using
+<path>~/.xinitrc</path>, it will be handled automatically for you; no additional
+configuration is needed.)
+</p>
+
+<pre caption="Prepending XDG_MENU_PREFIX to ~/.xinitrc">
+$ <i>sed '1i\export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-' ~/.xinitrc</i>
+</pre>
+
+<p>
 Now start your graphical environment by running <c>startx</c>:
 </p>
 
@@ -230,9 +221,11 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-To use the functionality of <c>hald</c> just start <c>gnome-volume-manager</c>
-and edit its preferences. Also, you'll need to add your user to the
-<c>plugdev</c> group.
+To use the functionality of <c>hald</c> you need to add your user to the
+<c>plugdev</c> group. If you want support for devices not handled by the
+<c>nautilus</c> file manager, or if you're not using <c>nautilus</c> at all, you
+might want to make sure that <c>gnome-volume-manager</c> is built with the
+<c>automount</c> USE flag, and that it's started every time you login.
 </p>
 
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