Re: X -window how can I start it?

From: Rajesh Menon (prm225_at_cs.nyu.edu)
Date: 03/31/04

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To: Torbjörn Schultz <torbjorn@christelschultz.se>

    hi. if you installed just the base system, then you will need the
    x-window-system package - apt-get it.

    rajesh@trantor:~$ dpkg -l | grep "x-window"
    ii x-window-syste 4.3.0-5 X Window System core components

    thats what you'll need to startx.

    On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Torbjörn Schultz wrote:

    > Hallo
    >
    > I am a real beginner. I have successfully, I hope, installed debian, just the base installation nothing more. I am getting the two pormpts as user and root and the commands work etc. But I cant start X windows, I have trided startx but only to get a message that the command is unknown, I have also tried to use F7 and other F:s together with Alt. Nothing works.
    >
    > In the hope of getting help.
    >
    > Torbjorn
    >
    >

    rajesh menon at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~prm225/

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