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Name: Chamkila
Date: November 7, 2002 at 10:37:51 Pacific
Subject: Startx in solaris
OS: Solaris
CPU/Ram: i686 512
Comment:

In Linux we have startx to go to gui. If I am on the command line in Solaris 8 how can I go to the gui.

I tried looking for this information on the net and a few books but was unable to find any information.

Thanks


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Response Number 1
Name: David Perry
Date: November 7, 2002 at 14:43:32 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

The command used to be located in /usr/openwin/bin/openwin


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Response Number 2
Name: jimbo
Date: November 8, 2002 at 00:35:37 Pacific
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This works for me:

/etc/init.d/dtlogin start ; exit


-jim


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