desktop help (startcom)

[gakure1]

Hi guys
I have just joined this forum, Hello everybody.

need your help guys.

i have just intalled startcom linux (enter linux5) but i don't know how to get to the graphic user interface, ie xwindow. i have gone up to console (CMD) and login in. but i don,t seem to go past this point. please help

[happybunny]

type startx and see what happens

[bwkaz]

I'm actually surprised it doesn't bring up a GUI for you -- most of the recent distros do that automatically. But since it doesn't, happybunny's right: try startx. If it gives you an error message (and doesn't bring up some kind of GUI), post the error.

But the GUI that you get might be extremely minimal (to the point where it's just a bunch of black and white dots, with an X-shaped mouse cursor; no icons or anything like that); if that's happening, then you'll need to hit ctrl-alt-backspace to get back out of X, and create a ~/.xinitrc file. Something simple should work (e.g. exec startkde can be the only line in it if you use KDE, or exec gnome-session if you use GNOME). Running startx processes the .xinitrc file and fires up anything that's listed in it. :)