"Loading" Xwindows from the command line

[alan]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, John Bradley wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Can someone please help me?
>
> In my enthusiasm to clean up my system and remove some "unwanted" software, 
> I've managed to disable Xwindows.  It no longer starts automatically and I'm 
> unable to start it from the command line.
>
> There's data that I really need and can still see it using the command line, 
> but I obviously need a GUI to access and use the data.  I have backups, but 
> they're not as current as I'd like.
>
> All suggestions and advise will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Feeling very stupid and sorry for myself...   :-(

"startx"

I set my system to initlevel 3 when I get a new distro and start by hand 
every time.  Old habit when X was not as stable.  (And new kernels would 
bjork the nvidia driver.)

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