Setting up Debian

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:40:43PM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote

> 1) However, i'm wondering is there an easy way for me to add the
> latest xfce desktop. I guess I will also need to add X window
> support. How can I do this easily.

  Have you tried "apt-get xfce"?

> 2) Also I want to configure my Debian system so it always boot into
> console server, I don't want to start X. How can I do this?

  I've never used any auto X startup script, so the following is based
on theory, not practice.  Execute "rc-update show".  It should show
xdm/kdm/gdm/whatever as one of the services that come up at either
"boot" or "default".  Remove that sevice, and it won't come up.  I
always start X manually with the "startx" command.  My ~/.xinitrc file
looks like so...

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry 50x10+0+0 -fn -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-*-200-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 &
/usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 -fn -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-*-200-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 &
xhost +192.168.123.249
exec /usr/bin/icewm > ~/.icewm.log 2>&1

  In place of icewm, substitute your favourite window manager or desktop
environment.

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