Re: how NOT to work with debian
* Richard Lyons (richard@the-place.net) wrote:
> On Monday 11 August 2003 3:36 am, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:25:48AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> [...general description snipped...]
> > Give more technical detail. How are you trying to start X? Most
> > importantly of all, what do the error messages say?
>
> Yes. I do 'startx' - it switches to tty7 and a big debian logo on crumpled
> paper appears. Looks like correct screen res. etc. The mouse is active.
> There is a square thing called 'main' with a paperclip icon and two arrow
> corners. This widget can be moved around. Three more suare widgets top
> right may be part of the bitmap or may be just not active.
sounds like twm or similar nasty WM...
try running 'kdm' or similar rather than startx, that should let you get into KDE.
iain
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