- Table of Contents
- GNOME Overview
- What does GNOME stand for?
- What is GNOME?
- Where can I find more information, help, or tips on about
GNOME?
- How do I use these GNOME mailing lists I keep hearing
about?
- How do I get to the mailing list archives?
- How do I pronounce GNOME?
- Why GNOME?
- Why not CDE? or KDE? or GNUStep?
- What platforms?
- Can I still run my programs under GNOME?
- What is a window manager, and what does it have to do with
GNOME?
- You've said that GNOME is Free Software. What does Free
Software mean?
- Is GNOME Open Source(tm) Software?
- Getting GNOME
- What are the System Requirements for GNOME?
- What's the best format to get GNOME for my
machine?
- What do I need on my computer before I install
GNOME?
- What order should I deal with the GNOME packages?
- How do I get GNOME tarballs?
- How do I get GNOME from CVS?
- My only access to the internet is email. How do I get
GNOME?
- I'm running RedHat Linux, how do I get RPMs?
- I'm running Debian GNU/Linux, how do I get .deb
packages?
- I'm running S.u.S.E. Linux, how do I get RPM packages?
- I'm running Caldera OpenLinux, or some other RPM-based
Linux distribution, how do I get RPM packages?
- I'm running FreeBSD, how can I get GNOME via Ports?
- I'm running Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, BSDI, SCO, IRIX, or some
other Unix or Unix-like system, can I get binary
packages?
- I'm running Microsoft Windows, can I get GNOME?
- Compiling GNOME
- What order do I compile the packages in?
- How do I configure the source code for my system?
(or... Where are the Makefiles hiding?)
- Where is configure hiding?
- OK, I've got a Makefile now. How do I get GNOME on my
system?
- How do I put GNOME someplace special, like
/opt/gnome?
- How do I compile GNOME with all the files in the right
place for FHS Compliance? How do I relocate GNOME's etc and var
directories to easily network GNOME?
- I'm done with this module, how do I get rid of all the
object files and other cruft from the source tree?
- How do I uninstall a module?
- So now I've got GNOME, what do I do with it?
- Where should I look first?
- How do I start GNOME?
- How do I run GNOME programs?
- How do I run the GNOME Panel?
- How can I use WindowMaker with GNOME
- Help!!!!!!!!
- General Help.
- Something is not working, I'm confused, what do I
do?
- How do I report a bug?
- What is a prefix (or a $prefix, ${PREFIX}, or
<prefix>)?
- What does Segmentation
Fault mean?
- What is a core dump? What is this file named core that
I keep running into?
- What is a backtrace? Someone just asked me to send
them a backtrace, how do I do this?
- What is an strace? Someone asked me to send them one,
how do I do this?
- Specific Compile Problems
- What does undefined reference to
'compress' mean?
- What is AC_TRY_RUN,
and why is my machine warning me about it?
- While compiling the program
gnome-gen-mimedb segfaults
- Runtime Problems
- How do I reset my session management settings?
- I started GNOME with session management, why am I just
getting this grey screen (no panel, nothing)?
- How do I tell session management what window manager to
use?
- Everything seems to be working, but most of my icons are
just black squares, or random spots. How do I get my
icons?
- Architecture Components
- Libraries
- Why do I need so many libraries
for GNOME?
- CORBA, ORBit and Bonobo
- What is CORBA?
- What are some CORBA components?
- What are CORBA Services?
- Which CORBA version does GNOME use?
- Where can I find out more about CORBA?
- What role does CORBA play in GNOME?
- What CORBA implementation is GNOME using?
- What is ORBit?
- Why has GNOME not made more use of CORBA?
- How will CORBA be used in GNOME, or, what is
Bonobo?
- Graphics in GNOME
- What is GTK+?
- What role does GTK+ play in GNOME?
- What languages does GTK+ support?
- What is imlib?
- What's the deal with themes?
- How do I get themes working?
- What is OpenGL?
- What about Drag and Drop support?
- Session Management
- What is session management?
- How do I use session management in my GNOME
application?
- DocBook
- What is DocBook?
- What is SGML?
- Internationalization & Localization (I18N & L10N)
- What are Internationalization(I18N) and
Localization(L10N)?
- What I8N and L10N API does GNOME use?
- How do I program using I18N and L10N, or Where do I
find out more info on these topics?
- How do I change the language of my GNOME
programs?
- Guile
- What is Guile?
- What role does Guile play in GNOME?
- Developer Issues
- What does a window manager have to do to be
GNOME-compliant
- What is Autoconf? What does it have to do with
GNOME?
- What is Libtool? What does it have to do with
GNOME?
- Becoming a GNOMEr
- How do I join the GNOME movement?
- I am a programmer, and I want to help, what can I
do?
- How do I get the bleeding edge, CVS versions of
GNOME?
- I want bleeding edge GNOME, but I can't use CVS. How do
I get it?
- How do I get an account to let me contribute to the CVS
version of GNOME?
- Why are directories sometimes missing when I update a
module from CVS?
- I am not a programmer, how can I contribute?
- FAQ Issues
- Where is the official copy of this FAQ?
- How do I add a question and/or an answer to this
FAQ?
- Credits
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- Trademarks and Naming Credits