Start X will not start the GUI
by swamprat from LinuxQuestions.org on (#51P0Y)
Greetings, I downloaded a bare bones copy of Debian, Looks like its Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) and all it does on start up is it brings me to a prompt in a bash shell.
I downloaded all the suggested packages suggested by a web post I found which took over an hour, like about 1,200 packages. But when I keyed in 'start x' or just 'startx' the gui doesn't come up. The GUI was supposed to be KDE. Command startx returns 'command not found'.
A further post suggested keying in XINIT first then the Start X command. This returns same results. After trying a number of things, one time I got '$DISPLAY' not found or not configured.
I'm hoping some one out there can help resolve this problem. Thanks.
~$ startkde
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Mar 31 12:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Mar 31 12:40 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2353 Feb 13 2019 plasma.desktop
root@win10-64bit:/usr/share/xsessions#
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server. Where would I find the '$DISPLAY' file?
In /usr/shr/xsessions is an entry 'plasma.desktop'
I also created a file in my home Directory .dmrc with the following entry
[Desktop]
Session-kde.plasma
I downloaded all the suggested packages suggested by a web post I found which took over an hour, like about 1,200 packages. But when I keyed in 'start x' or just 'startx' the gui doesn't come up. The GUI was supposed to be KDE. Command startx returns 'command not found'.
A further post suggested keying in XINIT first then the Start X command. This returns same results. After trying a number of things, one time I got '$DISPLAY' not found or not configured.
I'm hoping some one out there can help resolve this problem. Thanks.
~$ startkde
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Mar 31 12:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Mar 31 12:40 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2353 Feb 13 2019 plasma.desktop
root@win10-64bit:/usr/share/xsessions#
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server. Where would I find the '$DISPLAY' file?
In /usr/shr/xsessions is an entry 'plasma.desktop'
I also created a file in my home Directory .dmrc with the following entry
[Desktop]
Session-kde.plasma