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Mace

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Ok, this may be a simple questions. I just installed Mandrake 8.2 and accidentally clicked no when it asked me if I wanted to run X Windows by default. Now it just boots to the command line. I was wondering how I could get to the X Windows from the command line.
 
easy - type startx in the command line. There is also a file that you can edit to automatically start up in X windows when Linux boots, you'll have to look that up though.
 
I figured that would be easy. Is there an easy way to choose which gui?
 
Yep! If I remember right, it gives you an option as to which type of GUI system you want at the login prompt.
 
It did the first time. Now it just goes to KDE everytime. Which isn't bad because I use KDE 99% of the time, but I was just wondering how to switch if I wanted to.
 
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