HELP!! How do you get X windows to load when you install Mandrake 7.0 as Server!!??!

[abu]

Hey guys... i am new to linux

i am new to linux

i just made a machine to act as my webserver, i installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 ... i installed it as Server, during installation... now when i boot... it brings me to a graphical login screeen (not exactly console)... but it only has 2-3 terminals running after i login... how would i get into my gnome x windows? (i tried StartX, but that gives me an error in the terminal... it says Xserver is already running)

How would i fix this minor prob??

TIA!

 

[ddiccico]

not really sure what you mean. if you see a couple of terminals, you are i x windows. otherwise you would be at a prompt.

do you see a desktop of any kind? or is the problem that you can't set gnome as your window manager?

 

[MGMorden]

He's starting X with twm (AKA, ugly green window manager). In one of those terminals, do the following:

cd
pico .xinitrc

add following to file:
gnome (or startkde, afterstep, wmaker, or whatever you want to start)

Save (Ctrl + O), exit (Ctrl + X), logout of X-windows (cuz if you see ANY windows you're in X), and then log back in.