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I installed Gentoo a while ago and was not able to start an X session with startx-is X installed as a default install or do I need to install X? ...
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I installed Gentoo a while ago and was not able to start an X session with startx-is X installed as a default install or do I need to install X? If I need to install X-how?
- 09-16-2005 #2Linux Guru
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In Gentoo, almost nothing is installed "as default" :o You need to do 'emerge gnome' or 'emerge kde' or whatever.
/IMHO
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After you do your "emerge kde" or "emerge gnome" or whatever DE/WM you want, you will have to create a .xinitrc file with your favorite text editor and put one line in it.
From your home directory, do
su >root pass
nano .xinitrc
exec startkde
Other DE/WMs use different lines.
For enlightenment, I use "/usr/bin/enlightenment"
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That's helpful-I like xfce4....could I use emerge to get that?
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yeah you can, using portage is one of gentoo's strong points
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That's odd: I didn't need to do that last week when I emerged Gnome. 'startx' worked out of the box....
Originally Posted by budman7 /IMHO
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- 09-18-2005 #7Linux Guru
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Maybe it has to with differences in the make.conf file. Originally Posted by drakebasher That's odd: I didn't need to do that last week when I emerged Gnome. 'startx' worked out of the box.... Originally Posted by budman7
But when I emerged kde and tried startx, topic here .
Maybe gnome is the oddity, who knows?How to know if you are a geek.
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Originally Posted by linuxhippy Then,Code:emerge xfce4
Thats a quick way you can do from the terminal, if you dont want to do any actual text writing.Code:echo "exec /usr/bin/(xfce bin file here)" >~/.xinitrc
- 09-20-2005 #9Linux Engineer
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use:
to search for the proper name for xfce.Code:emerge -s xfce
Here's why Linux is easier than Windows:
Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can.
Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?
- 09-20-2005 #10Linux Engineer
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I beleve the proper name was "xfce4"...
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