Hello,

I just installed Slackware 8.1 on my machine last night..
This is my very first Linux box and my first attempt at using Linux.

As I said I installed Slackware 8.1 on a Athlon T-Bird 1.2 512meg ram 8 gig HD..

When I boot up and logon it goes to my root dir and I have a command prompt..

Is there a windows GUI for Slackware? and if so how do I start it?

Thanks!

Type startx at the cmd prompt. Assuming, that is, that x is installed. Since you are so new, it may be an idea to start with something other than Slackware - although I don't use it myself, other posts on this board have said that it is a lot more difficult to start up with than, say, Red Hat, Mandrake or SUSE (Slackware users, please add your comments if I'm misinformed!).

Good luck though.

Thanks for the help.. Welp a friend of mine is helping me.. He just hasnt been on in the past day or so..

Im a fast learner..

Oh, you're "a fast learner...", will mean that I don't have to help you? Okay

Read the Docs and search with Google. You'll find 99% of the answers.

LOL..

Kinda hard to search if I dont know what im looking for. .lol

are you logged in as root or a user ?

if a user , su to root and run xf86config , this will start your setup for the gui. you need to know the model of video card and amount of ram it has. you need to know the specs of your monitor. after you have completed this setup, type startx at the command prompt to start your gui.

Nah, you don't need to try something else, and it's ok to ask questions here. If folks didn't want to answer newbie questions, they would be hanging out at linuxquestions.org! It is true, though, that Google is your friend. At least it will help you ask smarter questions.

What you need to do is read the Slackware book, available at the website. www.slackware.com/book. It goes through the whole thing, step by step, including X setup (for GUI).

Everyone starts off somewhere, and being with Slackware, you've ensured that you're actually going to learn something about Linux. Good for you, and good luck.

BB

Cool thanks

I logged on as Root

Here is a very good HOWTO from tldp.org:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc.../XFree86-HOWTO

Under Linux, you can define your "GUI", but all are based on XFree86, a open source project. It's designed as a client-server programm. You run the X-Server on your computer and your WM (=window manager) or DE (=desktop environement) connects on your server as the client.

WMs: Fluxbox, Blackbox, Openbox, IceWM, WAEMIA, LarsWM
DEs: Gnome, KDE, Rox

A WM only is much faster to load and to work with, but for newbies a bit hard to learn. DEs have very good graphical tools, which make the administration of your setup handy.

I would you recommend KDE3.

Please, take a look on my first posting: I wrote a
PS: Read the Slackbook on www.slackware.org