How do I manually start the X server?

Novell Cool Solutions: Question & Answer

Posted: 8 Jun 2005

Q:
How do I manually start the X server?

A:
Two ways:

1. become root (su / password) and then type "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" - That's one way.
2. As a normal user, type "startx", and that will do the same thing.

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