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<author title="Editor">
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<author title="Editor">
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  <mail link="nightmorph"/>
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  <mail link="nightmorph"/>
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</author>
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<author title="Editor">
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  <mail link="eva"/>
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</author>
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<abstract>
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<abstract>
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A frequently used environment is GNOME. This HOWTO tries to describe
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A frequently used environment is GNOME. This HOWTO tries to describe
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# <i>env-update &amp;&amp; source /etc/profile</i>
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# <i>env-update &amp;&amp; source /etc/profile</i>
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</pre>
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</pre>
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<p>
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If you paid attention to the output of your previous <c>emerge</c> command,
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you'll notice that it suggests using <c>gamin</c> to have nautilus and
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gnome-vfs monitor file changes:
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</p>
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<pre caption="Installing gamin, a file alteration monitor">
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# <i>emerge gamin</i>
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</pre>
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<impo>
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If you are switching from <c>fam</c> (the old, deprecated file monitor) to
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If it is not the first time you install gnome, you might remember about
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<c>gamin</c>, you will need to remove <c>famd</c> from all runlevels and then
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<c>fam</c> or <c>gamin</c>. Those packages are absolutely not needed anymore
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unmerge it:
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if you are running a recent enough Linux kernel. If you are running
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Gentoo/FreeBSD or an old linux kernel, you may consider enabling fam USE flag.
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</impo>
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</impo>
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<pre caption="Optional: switching to gamin from fam">
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# <i>rc-update del famd</i>
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# <i>emerge --unmerge app-admin/fam</i>
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Next we'll clean up the remaining services.
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Next we'll clean up the remaining services.
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</pre>
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Starting with <c>gnome-base/gnome-session-2.26.2</c> you will need to prepend
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the XDG_MENU_PREFIX variable to get the GNOME menus if you are using the
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~/.xinitrc method to start your desktop. It will be handled automatically for
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you in other cases.
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</p>
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<pre caption="Prepending XDG_MENU_PREFIX to .xinitrc">
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$ <i>sed '1i\export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-' ~/.xinitrc</i>
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</pre>
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Now start your graphical environment by running <c>startx</c>:
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Now start your graphical environment by running <c>startx</c>:
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To use the functionality of <c>hald</c> just start <c>gnome-volume-manager</c>
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To use the functionality of <c>hald</c> you need to add your user to the
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and edit its preferences. Also, you'll need to add your user to the
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<c>plugdev</c> group. If you want support for devices not handled by 
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<c>plugdev</c> group.
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<c>nautilus</c> or if you are not using <c>nautilus</c> at all, you might
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want to make sure <c>gnome-volume-manager<c> is built with USE="automount" and
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started.
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