Tim McDonough wrote:
the better capabilities of the monitor so I, perhaps unwisely, decided
I could simply uninstall then reinstall X-Windows and KDE.
apt-get --purge remove kde
apt-get --purge remove x-window-system
Those are just meta packages. They exist only to depend upon other
Tim McDonough wrote:
In fact I cannot even find the startx command on the machine.
There are several different ways to get the X window system running on
machines. One of the really nice things about Debian is that it is a
full framework for software management. You can install as much as
you
I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on
what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for
the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for
the better capabilities of the monitor so I, perhaps unwisely, decided
I could simply
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on
what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for
the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for
the better capabilities
Steve Block wrote:
Running dpkg-reconfigure package_name
will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing
programs such as startx goes, I am unsure.
dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Reading
the man page I suspect the window system isn't one
Steve Block wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on
what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for
the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for
the
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Tim N9PUZ wrote:
dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious.
Try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' instead.
-Dennis
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Marty wrote:
This is a good lesson
on keeping logs of of your apt-get session, or at least keeping a list of
installed packages by running dpkg --get-selections *.
Sorry, make that dpkg --get-selections (no asterisk).
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0500, Tim N9PUZ wrote:
Steve Block wrote:
Running dpkg-reconfigure package_name
will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing
programs such as startx goes, I am unsure.
dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious.
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