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Old 05-18-2004, 06:10 PM   #1
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Slackware Post Install Question

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I just installed slackware on an old laptop, and everything went fine. I need to know how to get into KDE or whatever Graphical Environment after startup. All I get is a text command prompt, even after I login and everything.
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Old 05-18-2004, 06:12 PM   #2
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type in: startx

this will launch a WM... if you need to switch windowmanagers.. run the command : xwmconfig
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Old 05-18-2004, 06:15 PM   #3
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You can set your system to auto-load KDE/Gnome/WM-of-choice by changing your runlevel to 5 in /etc/inittab with the "initdefault" variable
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Old 05-18-2004, 06:38 PM   #4
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You can set your system to auto-load KDE/Gnome/WM-of-choice by changing your runlevel to 5 in /etc/inittab with the "initdefault" variable
Slackware uses runlevel 4 for the graphical login.
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