I agree, but i don't think its been worked on since Civileme took a powder from mandrake..
it could (and should) be prettied up and made the default.. would be of benefit to mandrake to do so. I might look into that, depends on what language its written in.. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2003 2:43 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I start the GUI from a command line? On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 08:30, Jerry Barton wrote: > > startx > > > If you'd like a easy choice of GUI from the command line without using a graphical display manager you might want to use Xtart. > I don't remember if it installs by default (I _THINK_ it does). If it's not then log in as root and > > urpmi Xtart > > Personally, I don't use kdm, mdkdm, gdm, xdm etc... It just seems to add an extra step that takes more time IMHO. > The last time I used one I would login from the command line, startx, then log in again on the display manager, choose a GUI and hit ok. > Maybe it's not like that anymore? I know if i do startx now it just goes straight to KDE but I figure that's because I don't use a graphical display manager. But... (and it's getting quite cliche to say this...) that's the great thing about GNU/Linux... choice. :-) > HTH > > Jerry It's really too bad that Xtart isn't installed by default for the Mandrake distro; having heaps choices for wm's/desktops is a great experience for "noobs'n'boobs" - shows more of the advantages to GNU/linux over the other OS's available for the PC market... -- Sat Aug 2 16:40:00 EST 2003 16:40:00 up 1 day, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 4.20, 3.85, 3.67 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * === ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== Compiler optimizations have been made to macro expand LET into a WITHOUT- INTERRUPTS special form so that it can PUSH things into a stack in the LET-OPTIMIZATION area, SETQ the variables and then POP them back when it's done. Don't worry about this unless you use multiprocessing. Note that LET *could* have been defined by: (LET ((LET '`(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET))) `(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET)) This is believed to speed up execution by as much as a factor of 1.01 or 3.50 depending on whether you believe our friendly marketing representatives. This code was written by a new programmer here (we snatched him away from Itty Bitti Machines where we was writting COUGHBOL code) so to give him confidence we trusted his vows of "it works pretty well" and installed it.
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