Use Ports - they will install all the missing things and it’s really a lot easier to manage that way. I don’t use GUIs in BSD - it’s not worth the headaches getting it up and running On Jul 5, 2014, at 16:23, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I've installed FreeBSD and it runs. Now I'm trying > to figure out how to install xfce and get gcc and some > other tools installed. What do you suggest? > > > I ran > > pkg install xorg > > and > > pkg install xfce > > Then I ran startxfce4. It brought up the desktop, but I can't > move the mouse and it doesn't seem to take anything from > the keyboard. I read that Gnome wasn't very stable on > FreeBSD. > > > -- > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises > http://webEbenezer.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140705/0b39f654/attachment.html>