On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:44:48 +0200 "soko.tica" <soko.tica@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Hi list,
> 
> I've build -stable 4.4 and attempt to run a full desktop box, but I'm
> facing the following problems:
> 
> 1) I can't update xenocara source # cvs -d$CVSROOT up -rOPENBSD_4_4
> -Pd downloads nothing and shows no messages although tried from
> /usr/xenocara or /usr
> 

You're possibly using a cvs mirror that doesn't have the xenocara tree.

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> 2) GNOME is incredibly slow, it takes minutes to load, while the
> background image appears about half an hour afterward;
> 

You'll hate me for saying this but... dump GNOME.
You'll hate me even more for saying this but... try cwm (in Xbase)
and/or scrotwm (in ports/x11/scrotwm or possibly as a package?)

After you're done hating me, you'll love all the screen space.

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> 3) I can't make firefox3 and privoxy to get along
> 
> I tried to fix the problems under 2 and 3 above by removing packages
> built from ports and installing again by pkg_add but achieved the same
> result.
> 

Did you follow the pkg instructions?

	$ pkg_info -i privoxy

Also, you might need to configure it (/etc/privoxy)

The above is true for tor.

My guess is you don't have it/them running/configured.

-- 
J.C. Roberts