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52midnight
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I've just installed Salix for the first time and am very impressed. I've been using Debian for ten years, but it doesn't recognize my new box (Qotom Q190N). When I checked its hardware list it's dated 2010 - unbelievable! The current Debian 'testing' won't install either.

I therefore downloaded ten different distros, and the only ones to install correctly were Salix, MX Linux and Slackware. Puppy Linux runs fine, as does System Rescue CD, praise be! I used Slackware for a while many years ago, so decided to try Salix instead. I've now moved to LXDE and am very pleased to find a range of more unusual packages from other sites. Nedit has been my preferred editor for years, so a great relief to find it available.

I'd like to login to runlevel 3 and invoke X from the commandline. The runlevel change and login worked OK, but startx failed.

Is there documentation on how to start X from the Salix commandline and enter LXDE?

With thanks for any advice. Good to be here.
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sammy
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Run

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xwmconfig
and select the DE/WM you want to use with startx.
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gapan
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Hi and welcome!

If you don't want to start gdm on boot and want to log in a console, first edit /etc/inittab and change this line:

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id:4:initdefault:
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id:3:initdefault:
and reboot of course.

Then do as sammy suggested.
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52midnight
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Post by 52midnight »

Yes, that did the trick! Thanks to both.

I'd forgotten just how simple, elegant and logical Slackware is. A real pleasure to be back with SysVinit and all the other stuff I used to think would never change.
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