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Fail2

Member

Registered: 2012-10-07

Posts: 11

Graphical Desktop How?

Hi,

I installed slitaz-4.0. It's booting to console/text mode. I can log in as root or any other user I make.

After some forum search I tried the command "startx" then it gives this msg:

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/root/.xsession: .: line 3: can't open '/root/.config/slitaz/application.conf

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I'm not sure that 'startx' was right command but I tried it. :s

How to boot to Graphical Desktop?

Thanks.

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

as i already said

try 'slim'

and check slim log

Fail2

Member

Registered: 2012-10-07

Posts: 11

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

Sorry, I didn't get 'slim' was a command.

I tried it as root,non-root both. It says it's not found.

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root@slitaz:~# slim

-sh: slim: not found

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michaelbischof

Member

Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 536

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

Try as root

/etc/init.d/slim start

That should do it.

Regards,

Michael

tux@slitaz:~$ ls /etc/init.d

bootopts.sh     hald            rcS             tftpd

crond           httpd           rc.shutdown     udhcpd

daemon          inetd           README          wicd

dbus            klogd           rsyncd          wpa_action.sh

dnsd            local.sh        slim            wpa_supplicant

dropbear        network.sh      syslogd         zcip

firewall        ntpd            system.sh

ftpd            rc.functions    tazpanel

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

Reinstall slim:

# tazpkg -gi slim --forced

Slim login manager should start provided the installation is not broken and the user is

not booted into base version which doesn't include slim and Xorg.

Fail2

Member

Registered: 2012-10-07

Posts: 11

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

Hi,

I tried a suggested. 'slim' is not found on /etc/init.d

& Looks like the 'tazpkg' is trying to connect Internet.

I uploaded a photo of it.

Can slim installed from CD?

Thanks.

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christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

slim is on the default CD

Can you boot at all from the CD ? and slim (the graphical environment) starts ?

Fail2

Member

Registered: 2012-10-07

Posts: 11

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

Yes, it boots to the Graphical desktop.

dudu

Member

Registered: 2018-05-15

Posts: 8

Re: Graphical Desktop How?

Problems with launching the desktop in Slitaz 4.0 appear, when you start in text mode every time in

live modus/frugal install or the first time in a full install. The normal action, when you want to

start the desktop from the console, is the command “startx“. But as you can see in startx, it refers

to an existing “.xsession”. And .xession wants to get the windowmanager from $HOME/.config/slitaz/

applications.conf. But that file does not exist. You can do the following - create your own startx,

lets say mystartx with the following content:

nano /usr/bin/mystartx

#!/bin/sh

Xorg &

exec openbox-session

chmod +x /usr/bin/mystartx