Getting back to desktop

[albi at scii.nl]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:59:27 +1000
Alfred Vahau <alfredv at upng.ac.pg> wrote:

> Alt+F7 combination does not work. I need to install the necessary
> desktop packages and then issue the Alt+F7 which might get me to the 
> desktop.
> 
> sudo apt-get install (desktop package name)

you did a minimal install or does X have problems to start ?

assuming you have enough discspace i suggest a :
sudo apt-get install icewm wmaker* kde kdebase gdm gnome

apt-cache search windowmanager might help
as well as : apt-cache search gnome|grep meta

YMMV