Computer in xterm

[Loïc Grenié]

2009/12/5 Ross Schoenauer <ross_s at cmc.net>:
> I am running AMD64 with Ubuntu and Kubuntu installed with "no log in
> required".  I switched to xterm on startup and now can not get out of
> it.  When I restart it goes to xterm automatically  because the no log
> in required.  I need a command in xterm  to start  ubuntu.
> Thank you in advance.

     Just type

rm .dmrc

  and restart (try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and if does not work Ctrl-Alt-Del,
  and if this does not work either maybe typing "exit" in the xterm will
  do). That should erase your default desktop and thus go to the system
  default one (Gnome or KDE).

    Just a word of vocabulary: Ubuntu is the complete operating
  system. What you are looking after is a desktop environment. The
  most famous (under Ubuntu) are Gnome (selected for Ubuntu) and
  KDE (selected for Kubuntu). There are others, among which XFce.
  The xterm you are offered can be considered an extremely minimal
  desktop environment (or something that is not really a desktop
  environment) in any case ubuntu is already "started" when you
  have it.

     Hope this helps,

           Loïc