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Old 7th May 2008
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Beginning with 4.3, gnome-session comes with a README.OpenBSD which I have replicated here for you:
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The OpenBSD/GNOME desktop

* Introduction
The gnome-session package will install a minimal working GNOME desktop.
It provides you with the basic interface (including themes), a control
panel, a terminal, a text editor and a lot more other utilities.

This file will briefly explain to you how to make this experience more
pleasant.

* Installing more packages
If your needs aren't satisfied yet, there are many other packages
you can install. The most important ones will be mentioned by category:

- Communication
* empathy - Telepathy based messenger
* epiphany - lightweight and simple web browser
* evolution - integrated email and PIM software
* gossip - Jabber client

- Accessibility
* dasher - predictive text input system

- Development
* devel-docs - developer documentation
* devhelp - API documentation browser
* gedit-plugins - plugins for Gedit
* zenity - easy-to-script dialogs

- Utilities
* eog - image viewer and categorizer
* evince - document viewer for multiple document formats
* file-roller - archive manager
* gcalctool - desktop calculator
* ggv - frontend for GhostScript
* gucharmap - Unicode character map
* planner - project management
* seahorse - encryption keys manager

* Startup and more documentation
One can log in using the login manager, GDM. Or by using the 'startx' command.
In order to use the latter, add a line like the following to your .xinitrc
or .xsession script: 'exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session' .

For more information on using OpenBSD packages please refer to:
http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/faq15.html . For more general information on
using GNOME, please see: http://live.gnome.org/ .
Edit: I should add, I've had no trouble installing gnome in 4.2; I did so for my gnome LiveDVD. But I installed all gnome packages.

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