Re: X -window how can I start it?
From: Tom Chance (lists_at_tomchance.org.uk)
Date: 03/31/04
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:45:22 +0100
On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 16:09, 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.
Login as root, and try:
"ls /usr/X11R6/bin"
If you get a list of files, X is installed. Is "startx" in that list? If you
get nothing, or an error saying the directory doesn't exist, you need to
install X, which you do with:
"apt-get install xserver-xfree86"
Tom
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