Hi everybody,

I am a newbie to LINUX and i installed slackware 8.0 on my machine for the first time. And its all gone well so far i think in setup.
Its also fine with CUI , but when i tried startx i got an empty screen and i cant able to understand it. Is it the GUI.
Please help me in using it the better way.

Thank you very much in advance.

Hi! Welcome to LQ

This might sound horrible, but first of all I think you should reinstall. Slackware 8 is very old. 10 is the newest version. You need to configure X with xf86config before starting it. You will need to know your hardware, if you give wrong values you might damage your monitor for example. X is configured with xorgconfig in slackware 10 (which you should be using...)

To select your window manager, make the file (as a user!): ~/.xinitrc and write this in it (this example starts KDE):
exec startkde

Now startx should start KDE normally, assuming you managed to configure X correctly.