README for gnome It's no longer necessary to set the XDG environment variables or manually symlink /usr/etc/xdg to /etc/xdg, the gnome meta-port Pkgfile creates the symlink for you. *BUILD NOTE* GnuPG requires a /usr/sbin/sendmail. There are numerous ways to provide this, installing sendmail and postfix among them. The quickest method is probably to either touch a fake file there, or my preferred method, to install ssmtp from ports and symlink /usr/sbin/ssmtp to /usr/sbin/sendmail. GnuPG seems to be happy with that. DBUS NOTE To use dbus correctly, it needs to run two different sessions. One of these is taken care of by the init script, /etc/rc.d/dbus. It's run as root and the user doesn't need to mess with it. The other session is started by the user and invoked like this: $ eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` $ export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS $ export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID If you're using GDM, you don't need to do anything, gdm will launch dbus when you log in using /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30dbus-launch.sh. If, on the other hand, you're running gnome-session from a .xinitrc file or the like, you'll need to put lines like the above into it.