Trying to run Gnome from the command line and getting startx not found
Hi,
I am trying to run run from the command line with startx gnome. I am getting the msg -bash: startx command not found Any ideas greatfully received. Thanks Chris |
hi there,
first of all which distro are you using? try and run the same command as root. try finding out if gnome is installed - I once had installed a Debian net-inst cd and I was very confused when the gui did not show up. Later realised that there were no gui packages try using 'X' on the command line - works the same. u may also try 'gdm'. all of these will work the same if you have X installed on the pc |
Hi,
I am using Fedora 9. I am logged in as root. I have ram yum install gnome and it says all is installed and nothing to do. gdm comes up with command cannot be found. I have ran X and all I get is a grey screen with a black cross in the middle and just hangs there. I cannot move the X with the mouse but nothing else appears. Thanks Chris |
The startx command on Fedora 9 is provided by the xorg-x11-xinit package and the startx executable is placed in /usr/bin. See if the package is installed:
Code:
yum list xorg-x11-xinit |
I have had a look in /usr/bin and there isnt startx but there is a startxfce which doesn't work.
yum list xorg-x11-xinit - did this and it says available packages xorg-x11-xinit.x86_64 run yum update xorg etc and it says no packages marked for update. Thanks Chris |
On my system I have
Code:
# yum list xorg-x11-xinit Code:
yum install xorg-x11-xinit |
Hi,
X is still the same. xfce works now but is fairly basic for my liking. Gnome tries to boot but comers up with the following error msg. xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): no program named xterm in path specify a program on the command line or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path waiting for x server to shut down and the back to the command line |
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