Re: starting x
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:59:01PM -0800, cfk wrote:
> On Saturday 18 December 2004 18:14, Sam Watkins wrote:
> Dear Sam:
> Thank you very much for the tip. I did do a 'apt-get install
> x-window-system', and a number of good things happened. I can now do a startx
> and get twm. I can also right-click and get a tclsh8.4.
>
> Thats the good news. Unfortunately, being unfamiliar with apt-get yet, I dont
> know how to get say kde or gnome up. I am currently trying:
>
> apt-get install kde kdevelop kdelibs kdebase
>
> after a search of archives and it seems to be working. After that, I wonder
> what the incantation is to start kde and perhaps more importantly, where I
> can go to figure out a few steps after that, other then googling.
>
> Charles
>
the following sequence yields:
trc@hpd:~$ ls /usr/bin | grep kde
.........
kdebugdialog
kde-config
.........
startkde
wkdemenu.pl
It seems to be startkde, so
startx `which startkde`
should get you there
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