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Now, regarding your problem. As far as I can tell from your email, you either have not installed some window manager or desktop environment (like Gnome or KDE) which is available with Debian, or simply have not started them. To check if the problem is the second just try to execute the "startx" command at the "$" prompt. By the way, the "$" sign is indeed the "prompt", a character that denotes that the system is waiting for some textual command from you. Hope this helps. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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