[Novalug] beer and pizza for help

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki eric@zhevny.com
Fri Jul 18 20:25:39 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:17:03PM -0400, Nino Pereira wrote:
> Since everyone is apparently installing Ubuntu, and I am too,
> and I have a problem, let me ask you all the following:
> 
> I installed ubuntu hardy server. What do I have to add to
> get 'startx' to give me a nice screen, with a hardy heron on
> it?
> 
> I already did apt-get install gdm, and firefox, and a little
> more, but I still dan't do startx.

If you have gdm, why do you need startx?

Do you have startx installed? (it comes in xinit package on Debian,
probably also on Ubuntu (?) )

If you have it, what happens when you try to use it?

> It must be easy if you know what you are doing, but I'm lost.

-Eric Rz.

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