How to start XWindows???

Dick Dowdell dick.dowdell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 17:42:58 UTC 2007


For many reasons, one does not always want the full Ubuntu desktop---only to
run the occasional x-based GUI application.

On 3/19/07, Olivier Picquenot <oli at aurait.eu> wrote:
>
> Patrick Gelin a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just reinstalled my system with text mode and now I would like to
> start
> > XWindows so I 've done:
> >
> > startx
> >
> > But, Oh my god, the command doesn't exist...
> >
> > What can I do?
>
>
> What do you want to do ?
> If you want to have a regular ubuntu with graphical mode, install packet
> ubuntu-desktop :
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
> That will install everything needed to have a full graphical ubuntu.
>
> If disk space is an issue, you can also install xubuntu-desktop.
>
> Regards,
> Olivier
>
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Regards,
Dick Dowdell
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