RE: New user need some help
when i do
apt-get install x-window-system
apt-get install fluxbox
on a base install of Debian stable
then startx,i go strait into fluxbox
and reboot, i get a debian login screen, which when logging in takes me
strait to fluxbox.
The login screen does not have any options apart from username/password,
nothing there for different desktops or shutdown or such.
but it does work.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> [mailto:debian-user-request@lists.debian.org]On Behalf Of Kent West
> Sent: 27 April 2006 11:57am
> To: debian-user-digest@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: New user need some help
>
>
> Ken Walker wrote:
> > apt-get install x-windows-system
> > apt-get install 'whatever gui you want' such as icewm or
> fluxbox or kde or
> > .....................................
> > startx
> >
> > when you reboot you will have a gui login window and that
> will then take you
> > strait into your chosen windows manager.
> >
> Not necessarily. The GUI login window (kdm, gdm, xdm, or wdm) does not
> get installed by default with Icewm or fluxbox, as I recall.
> It does get
> installed with KDE and Gnome. So sometimes "yes", sometimes "no".
>
> But if you don't have a gui login window, you can still use "startx"
> manually.
>
> The command "apt-get install x-window-system" (note the lack of an "s"
> on "window"), or "aptitude install x-window-system"
> (preferred by some
> to apt-get, but does much the same thing) will install a basic,
> functional GUI, the X Window System. However, it does not
> install either
> of the two most popular "skins"on top of X, KDE or Gnome, nor does it
> install some of the other popular "skins" (more properly
> called "window
> managers" or "desktop environments", depending on which "skin" you're
> discussing) such as Icewm or fluxbox. That's the purpose of the second
> command, "apt-get install kde" or "aptitude install gnome" or
> "aptitude
> install icewm" or "apt-get install fluxbox" etc etc etc. If
> you install
> KDE, the gui login window (kdm) also gets installed, and it
> will have a
> pull-down menu to select which window manager / desktop
> environment (wm
> / de) you wish to log into (provided you've installed multiple
> wm's/de's. So, if you have plenty of drive space, and want to
> experiment
> with several different wm's/de's, you can "aptitude install
> x-window-system kde gnome icewm fluxbox metacity ion" (and
> etc etc; run
> "apt-cache search window | grep manager" for a more complete
> listing of
> possible wm's).
>
> --
> Kent
>
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