Dan,

A little more info will help us answer this.

Which Distro did you install?
What exactly command did you run, xfree86 is not the command should be startx?
Did you see any errors (or anything) display before you got back to the 
'bash' prompt?

John

On Sunday 17 February 2002 06:00, Dan . wrote:
> I am very new to linux and the x windows system so to some people this
> question may sound very simple. I have installed xfree86 and when i run it
> i get a white box and the command line bash-2.01 or something. I thought x
> was a windows based program. I have downloaded KDE2 but i am not sure iu
> have installed right. Could someone please help me.
>
>
> Dan
>
>
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