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Running different desktops from startx

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hi! So, I am having difficulty understanding what I need to do or if this can be done at all.. I would like to boot into the command line for my Linux system but, still have access to the different environments as well (KDE, GNOME, Enlightenment, etc) but I don't know how to do that using startx. that seems to only start KDE. Can you use startx in some way to optionally start another environment? If not, can it be set up to start that graphical umm.. like start chooser screen? Sorry.. I'm sorta new so I don't know all the terms but its the screen that comes up that you enter your username (HowTos)

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To install GNOME use this command:

yum -y groupinstall “X Window System” “GNOME Desktop Environment”

If you boot your os and gnome don’t auto start login as user or root, type startx and press enter.

I normally prefer my system to boot in text mode and manually start Gnome with startx but if I do that with Gnome 3.6.1, I get many errors and a basically unusable operating system. After installing gdm however, Gnome works perfectly fine again. Why is that and how can I return to my startx?

Hi I want to boot Ubuntu quantal to a command prompt always and then use startx to launch x-windows if required. I have used the following methods but none work correctly.

update-rc.d -f lightdm remove ---- does not work in quantal, works in debian sid. I used the boot paramter 'text' on the grub command line.

Hi, I have being googling and trying to find out solution to unable to startx. Please note i have already search from last 2-3 days for the solution but didn't found anything.

So request someone to guide me step by step. Also one more thing, the server was crashed and i upgraded the existing server using CD.

I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 64 bit edition. When I start up my computer the xubuntu splash screen shows up and then it goes into command line mode. I can still login by typing my username and password but I have to type startx to start up xfce. This does not happen all the time. How do I fix this?

I am using Dell Vostro 1000 and I recently installed opensuse 11.2 gnome. It has ATI graphics card.

The x server does not automatically start by itself nor does the GUI login screen come up.

I have to login through the command line and startx manually to start x11.

It never had any problems with 11.1. Should I go back to 11.1 Please help!

yesterday I run this command pacman -syu and my system start download over 500 MB and I go to shop , after I come back , I see everything downloaded and I shutdown my system and go to my friend home . after come back I turn on my system and I see my system start , but Gnome3 can not start and my system go to command line and can not go to graphical mode and I can not enter my pass and username .

Hi!With the recent update of qt4 i had a problem to start X session.First, i update all with pacman -Syu (qt4 to 4.8.4-11), and then update alone qt4 to 4.8.4-12.A few hours i have a problem to start KDE and show me a message:Could not start d-bus.

I installed some software on my CentOS 6.3 virtual machine (under VMWare Workstation). And after rebooting, the X (GNOME) don't start automatically. I can cause to start X using startx command.