desktop of ubuntu server

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Apr 8 07:18:17 UTC 2007


Troy Davis wrote:
>> So I have 3 questions
>>
>> How can I boot normally and not automatically start the gui
>> how do I then start the gui manually when I do want to use it
>> What  is the config file called and located so I can change the default
>> screen res for the desktop so I can try and get it to display
> 
> Hi,
> 1) when grub loads hit esc and select the recovery mode kernel
> 2) running startx
> 3) You can configure the x server running "sudo dkpg-reconfigure
> xserver-xorg" or editing the file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> 
> I get command not found when I run dkpg-reconfigure

That's:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

It was misspelled.

Matt Flaschen




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