On 10/18/2022 11:29 AM, stan via users wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:09:15 -0400 Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd thing, but systemctl afaik seems not to behind this. I know wayland has replaced X but there was X libraries sill in the distro isn't there? How do I boot a gui? I believe xfce runs on X. I see no gnome, or even kde.
I am probably behind and I am no developer, so idk what's up. what should I do?
I always boot into multiuser before starting X with LXDE using startx when I want a gui. So, this does work, as others have confirmed.
Try putting the following in a file called .Xclients in your home directory.
#! /bin/bash
exec startxfce4
and once you have, run startx again. If you use the command startx -- vt10 it should leave the messages from X on tty1, and put the X display on virtual console 10. If you want to start X as a different user, you can then start it on a different virtual console.
startx -- vt10 seems to work, opening a mini terminal window.