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Old 06-08-2005, 04:31 PM   #1
GardarS
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Cant StartX


Well My problem Is.

Im using Kate OS and I just recently installed, it works fine booting and stuff and that gets me in text mode.
Well I Log in as Root user and type StartX and the only thing I get is a blank screen. I selected Xfce as the default X.

Hope you can help
 
Old 06-08-2005, 04:35 PM   #2
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first why are you starting X as root?
second have you configured X?
 
Old 06-08-2005, 04:41 PM   #3
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havent made another user and the first thing they ask you to do is to log in and root is the only user at this stage
And well to say the truth nope havent tryed to configure X yet hmm.. thought they would do tha for you when you selected the default X
Thank you
 
Old 06-08-2005, 04:43 PM   #4
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use the useradd command to add a new not root user and xorgconfig to configure x
 
  


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