How do you install and configure a GUI

[Member oldman]

I have installed the latest Antix 7 using the net.iso.
I wanted a gui, so I first installed xfce, hoping that it would install the xwindow system as a dependancy. That did not happen, so I next installed Xorg, but I cannot start xwindows (sudo startx). I have looked at the config file in my home user directory and it does not look as though it is any good; just looks like a skeleton conf file. So how do I get a working gui?
xorg.conf.new

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
        ### <percent>: "<f>%"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"             	# <str>
        #Option     "fbdev"              	# <str>
        #Option     "debug"              	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "fbdev"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

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Install a login manager such as lightdm.

You could also have a look at our video set.

Build a Custom antiX-mate install

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Thanks.
Tried to install lightdm, but failed due to unavailable missing dependancies.
I have installed fluxbox, but sudo startfluxbox gives the following error message:

xmodmap: unable to open display ”
Error: Couldn’t connect to XServer passing null display

sudo startx gives the following errror message:

xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

I do not know how to setup the x server, but I ran some command that was supposed to have done that, which created the xorg.conf.new file in my home directory.

Can anyone help me, thanks.

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Have a read of this post and the links.

build-icewm-system-from-core-17-1

You should not need to startx with sudo. Install xserver-xorg-legacy and make the edit mentioned in the link to Xwrapper.config

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That did not work!

This line was already in the file: allowed_users=console
I just had to add this line: needs_root_rights=yes

startx (without sudo, but after following your advice) gives this:

xauth: timedout in locking authority file /home/oldman/.Xauthority

When I opened .Xauthority in nano, it was empty.

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That is because you tried to login as root/sudo. Delete that file, reboot and try again!
BTW net and core is meant for experts!

(see I can add inappropriate exclamation marks too!)

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anticapitalista wrote:

That is because you tried to login as root/sudo. Delete that file, reboot and try again!

No difference!

anticapitalista wrote:

BTW net and core is meant for experts!

I went with the net.iso because it gives a minimal setup; I did not want loads of software.

Thanks for your help.

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Well, I just installed (in Virtualbox) the latest sid-based net.iso without a separate /home partition, (is that what you are using?), then

login as user, and get the latest packages.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg-legacy fluxbox

and after editing the file mentioned above

startx

gets to to a very minimal fluxbox ‘desktop’

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I have a seperate /home partition, which I had to edit /etc/fstab to get it recognised.

Followed your latest instructions and got the same failure.

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Which iso are you using?
Check for a typo error when writing Xwrapper?
Check permissions for home user.
Are you sure your fstab entry is correct?
You said you ‘ran some command that was supposed to have done that, which created the xorg.conf.new file in my home directory.’ What exactly?
How about more details of your hardware and your setup?
File system? For /home and /root?

inxi -Fxz may help

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I have used antiX-17.1-sid_x64-net.iso

No typos. Even tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy.

Still not getting anywhere, but thanks for your help and time.

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When you installed, you are asked if you want to have a separate /home and then asked if it is new.
The default answer (N) will not set up a /home partition correctly.
If you choose, y(es) then it does.
Maybe this is what is causing the issue?

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I am giving up now, but here is the fstab files for the record.
This is the ORIGINAL /etc/fstab

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda1 / dos defaults,relatime 0 1
UUID=52073545-da33-4669-b12a-39d5ebf63899  swap                         swap       defaults                 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults,relatime 0 2
# Dynamic entries below

UUID=4b5ec284-3f0b-4e47-bbde-bd6f1b02c53b  /media/sda4                  ext4       noauto,exec,users        0 0
/dev/cdrom                                 /live/boot-dev               iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro     0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /live/boot-dev               auto       noauto,exec,users,ro     0 0

And this is the ALTERED /etc/fstab (which gets the home directory recognised)
Note: I commented out the original line for sda3

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda1 / dos defaults,relatime 0 1
UUID=52073545-da33-4669-b12a-39d5ebf63899  swap                       swap       defaults                   0 0
# /dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults,relatime 0 2
UUID=6c61aea6-4b66-4584-a9bc-198e2986aca2  /home                      ext4       defaults   0  2
# Dynamic entries below

UUID=4b5ec284-3f0b-4e47-bbde-bd6f1b02c53b  /media/sda4                ext4       noauto,exec,users          0 0
/dev/cdrom                                 /live/boot-dev             iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro       0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /live/boot-dev             auto       noauto,exec,users,ro       0 0

Thanks for your help.

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Check the permissions of the /home folder.
If the are wrong, I suspect they are, then use chown to change them eg chown -R yourusername:yourusername /home

If that still doesn’t work, it may be better to re-install but with /home not on a separate partition,

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The /home directory was owned by root, changed it to my user name, but I still get unable to connect to X server: Connection refused,

Once again thanks for your help. I am going to now try another distro.

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