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| farmuse 2005-02-09, 2:45 am |
| Hello, I just installed Debian, now after I provide user name and
password it leaves me at a command line, how do I start the GUI ?
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| Andreas Janssen 2005-02-09, 2:45 am |
| Hello
farmuse (<noway@farmstuff.net> ) wrote:
> Hello, I just installed Debian, now after I provide user name and
> password it leaves me at a command line, how do I start the GUI ?
You need to make sure the X server is installed and configured properly:
apt-get install x-window-system-core
Next, you need a windowmanager and you probably also want a graphical
login manager. Available login managers are kdm (KDE), gdm (gnome), wdm
(WindowMaker look) and xdm (the most basic one). Debian includes
several window managers and desktop environments, including WindowMaker
(wmaker), KDE, Gnome and Xfce4. Install one of them and a login
manager. The next time you reboot X will start automatically.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html
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| On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:03:03 +0100, Andreas Janssen
<andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
<<snip>>
>You need to make sure the X server is installed and configured properly:
>
>apt-get install x-window-system-core
>
>Next, you need a windowmanager and you probably also want a graphical
>login manager. Available login managers are kdm (KDE), gdm (gnome), wdm
>(WindowMaker look) and xdm (the most basic one). Debian includes
>several window managers and desktop environments, including WindowMaker
>(wmaker), KDE, Gnome and Xfce4. Install one of them and a login
>manager. The next time you reboot X will start automatically.
kdm, gdm and the others are not required. After you install the core
as above you can install icewm, KDE or another desktop enviroment. X
can then be started by typing 'startx' at the command line after you
log in. So folks like kdm, gdm. Some don't.
$.02
Steve
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| macondo 2005-02-09, 5:45 pm |
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> farmuse (<noway@farmstuff.net> ) wrote:
>
>
> You need to make sure the X server is installed and configured properly:
>
> apt-get install x-window-system-core
>
> Next, you need a windowmanager and you probably also want a graphical
> login manager. Available login managers are kdm (KDE), gdm (gnome), wdm
> (WindowMaker look) and xdm (the most basic one). Debian includes
> several window managers and desktop environments, including WindowMaker
> (wmaker), KDE, Gnome and Xfce4. Install one of them and a login
> manager. The next time you reboot X will start automatically.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
Make sure you install the package 'menu'.
regards,
macondo
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| farmuse 2005-02-10, 2:45 am |
| thanks to everyone, let me try again tomorrow and hopefully all
will work fine. I have used SuSE and Mandrake in the past, but it has
been a while. I must not have loaded X window ? presently using the
article Will Smith wrote in the last issue of Maximum PC magazine, very
good article, just needed a bit more help to get me going. Thanks again.
macondo wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Andreas Janssen wrote:
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>
>
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> Make sure you install the package 'menu'.
>
> regards,
>
> macondo
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| farmuse 2005-02-11, 5:45 pm |
| after I type startx the GUI does not come up and says it cannot load
mga module, this a Matrox G400 but apparently the OS cannot open the
driver ? why not ?
Steve wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:03:03 +0100, Andreas Janssen
> <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> <<snip>>
>
>
>
> kdm, gdm and the others are not required. After you install the core
> as above you can install icewm, KDE or another desktop enviroment. X
> can then be started by typing 'startx' at the command line after you
> log in. So folks like kdm, gdm. Some don't.
>
> $.02
> Steve
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| On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:01:08 GMT, farmuse <noway@farmstuff.net> wrote:
> after I type startx the GUI does not come up and says it cannot load
>mga module, this a Matrox G400 but apparently the OS cannot open the
>driver ? why not ?
Hi,
As root......
apt-get update
apt-get install x-window-system icewm gdm
gdm will boot directly to a gui. Leave out the gdm to boot to command
line. I use gdm because it makes it very easy to change window
managers. They show up in a drop down menu.
You might try this link. My understanding is that Matrox is one of the
easiest to set up.
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016
apt-get check will tell you of any broken packages.
apt-get -f install will try and repair broken dependencies.
Let us know.
Steve
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| On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:46:08 -0700, Steve <THISisA@fake.Email> wrote:
>As root......
>
>apt-get update
>apt-get install x-window-system icewm gdm
>
Leave 'x-window-system' out of the second command.
Sorry,
Steve
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| cliff pankonien 2005-08-07, 5:46 pm |
| startx
farmuse wrote:
> Hello, I just installed Debian, now after I provide user name and
> password it leaves me at a command line, how do I start the GUI ?
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