GDM is installed. Do _NOT_ use /etc/ttys to start gdm at boot time. This will result in gdm hanging or restarting constantly. Instead, copy the included gdm.sh.sample script to gdm.sh, and restart. This script is found in %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d. GDM uses its own locale.alias file to determine its language and especially the GNOME 2 fontencoding. This file is located in %%PREFIX%%/etc/gdm/locale.alias. By default, the character set for every county using the EURO currency is set to ISO8859-15 in order to enable the EURO sign. If you do not feel comfortable with this, edit this file according to your preferences. If you are running 5.X and you are running 5.1-RELEASE or earlier, GDM will fail to work due to a bug in OpenPAM. You can download a patch from http://www.FreeBSD.org/~marcus/pam_get_user.c.diff. You must also have the FreeBSD src tree on your system. Do the following to apply the patch: # cd /usr # patch -p < /path/to/pam_get_user.c.diff Then rebuild and install world. Note, this bug does _NOT_ affect FreeBSD 4.X.