Re: New user need some help
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:37:37 -0500
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
[snip]
x-window-system will pull in xdm as a dependency, so there should be
at least some graphical login screen.
--
Liam
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