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GNOME

GNOME is a graphical desktop environment and development platform. For more information, see http://www.gnome.org/.
This page is about running GNOME components on a PureDarwin system.

GNOME components running in PureDarwin 9

Right now, we have the following components running on PureDarwin 9.

metacity

Metacity is the window manager most commonly used with GNOME. 
Once you have installed it (e.g., from MacPorts) and try to launch it, you will get

Window manager warning: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Not enough memory)
Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
Window manager warning: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Not enough memory)

Then simply 

launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist 
metacity

and it will run.

zenity

Zenity is a little tool that can be used (e.g., in bash scripts) to create simple GTK dialogs.