I've done my first installation of Gentoo, starting from the live cd and
using stage3. After following the instructions in the online manual - I
don't find startx or runx. I suspect that this is not the norm and I
missed some step, but I have Re-RTFM and can't find my error. My USE
statement includes kde, gnome and X so I think it should be there -
perhaps I just can't find it.

How do I get the graphical interface running?

Larry

So anyway, it was like, 14:18 CEST Jun 24 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
LD Whitley was all like, "Dude,

> I've done my first installation of Gentoo, starting from the live
> cd and using stage3. After following the instructions in the online
> manual - I don't find startx or runx. I suspect that this is not
> the norm and I missed some step, but I have Re-RTFM and can't find
> my error. My USE statement includes kde, gnome and X so I think it
> should be there - perhaps I just can't find it.
>
> How do I get the graphical interface running?

Installing one would probably be a good idea.

'emerge gnome', for instance.

Just adding USE flags won't magically install stuff, that will only
happen if you merge something that actually looks at the flags and
adds whatever the flag indicates to its dependencies.

If you for instance had merged something with a graphical interface,
like, say mozilla, XFree86 would have been merged along with it since
it needs "virtual/x11". I don't quite know what you would have to do
(beside explicitly merging them) to get the full monty from gnome and
kde.

The "gnome" and "kde" USE flags only adds /support/ for gnome and kde,
respectively, as far as I can tell they don't imply that the entire
desktop environment gets to tag along for free.

hth.

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LD Whitley wrote:

> I've done my first installation of Gentoo, starting from the live cd and
> using stage3. After following the instructions in the online manual - I
> don't find startx or runx. I suspect that this is not the norm and I
> missed some step, but I have Re-RTFM and can't find my error. My USE
> statement includes kde, gnome and X so I think it should be there -
> perhaps I just can't find it.
>
> How do I get the graphical interface running?
>
> Larry


Hi Larry,

there are actually good step-by-step instructions available through
following URLs:

Desktop Related Documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml#doc_chap5

Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml

These are the references I used when I started playing with Gentoo.

/Magnus

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:18:10 -0500, LD Whitley wrote:

> I've done my first installation of Gentoo, starting from the live cd and
> using stage3. After following the instructions in the online manual - I
> don't find startx or runx. I suspect that this is not the norm and I
> missed some step, but I have Re-RTFM and can't find my error. My USE
> statement includes kde, gnome and X so I think it should be there -
> perhaps I just can't find it.
>
> How do I get the graphical interface running?
>
> Larry
Did you read the part where you configure XFree? /usr/bin/X11/xf86config