It sounds like you're going to have to reconfigure your display
again. From what you're describing it's not properly configured which is
why you're being presented with that strange screen. Actually you will
want to configure X so that you're presented with a GUI login screen. This
will give you a much broader selection of window managers when you log in
to your system.
You can reconfigure X by typing "setuptool" on the command line after
you've logged in as root.
--
Mark
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:53am ,Sharma, Anoop spake passionately in a message:
> Hello All
>
> I am completly new to Linux and just managed to install Mandrake 7.1 on my
> home PC dual booting with NT. At the mo using a boot disk.
>
> My question is what is the X windows, KDE and Gnome?????
>
>
> When I type start X I used to get a pretty interface either KDE or Gnome.
> Now all I get is a dos emulation of windows, I think its called TVM. What is
> TVM?
>
>
> Also how do I know if the graphical user interface is KDE or Gnome as when I
> type StartX KDE or StartX Gnome I get the same look desktop.
>
>
> ANy help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> regards
>
> Anoop
>
>
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