Re: x window / starting the desktop
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:58:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> >Hi Kent I do not mean to bother you but I am confused. If I have X running
> >it shows a GNOME desktop. Is this correct? X is the underlying "server" and
> >GNOME is what I see? I was under the impression that X is a Desktop such as
> >KDE or GNOME.
[..]
> It's possible to run X by itself without having any clients running; in
> such as case, all you'll see is a grayish hatched background with a
> mouse pointer.
[..]
e.g.
chrisb@kan:~/qct$ X
Handy, for debugging. :-), i.e. if that fails the problem is definitely
with the xserver, NOT with KDE/GNOME/WHATEVER.
--
Chris.
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