Get into X window Slackware

Xbuntu freez/hold up on my old 300mhz so I tried Slackware for the 2nd times. I consider it successful.

After reboot it comes up asking:

name login: root password: password

than it came up with you got mail " message bla bla bla..."

root@name:`#

Where do i go from here? How to get into X Windows?

I don't remember if it will run as root, but the first thing you'll want to do is make another user, I think thats the adduser command. Once you've logged in as that user, try "startx"

Coooooooooooool!!! it works for root. But...........

I'm in X windows already but it's greyed. with a little panel at the bottom with clock on the right and some left and right arrows.

Look as if it's running on monochrome with 640X480 or smaller.

If i right click on the desk top it will show fluxbox 0.1.14.

How do I make it boot up(startx) automatically?

Hey, I hope you're happy with your new slackware.

I *strongly* recommend... well let me put it this way: if you run your system as root, you're asking for trouble, and you'll have it. Seriously. So go ahead and create a user:

yourhost# adduser

It'll ask you a few questions, and you'll be ready to go.

Now you can set the system to go to X on boot. Linux has different "runlevels". Slackware is configured by default to not run X after boot, that is runlevel 3. You want to set de default runlevel to 4. So edit the file /etc/inittab (you can use the editor nano, for instance):

yourhost# nano /etc/inittab

You'll see two lines like

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

you just want to change them so it looks like:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

don't forget to save the file (in nano I think it's CTRL-O, don't remember, but it should be written on the screen)

Now reboot, and it should go directly to X. I have no idea why it loaded fluxbox when you started X as root. If you installed KDE, you can set it as your default desktop manager at the login screen.

This thread has been moved to the Slackware section as it concerns Slackware.

Thanks croto. I will try that once i get home. Since that flux is so small i can barely see it. There is not even a display panel option to set resolution for me to use like the ubuntu does. It has all other stuff like gimps, gaims and games.

Any idea how i can change theme maybe?

No, I didnt install KDE. I just install step by step, answer what was ask from what i call the DOS installation.

You can change the resolution by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I'd give more detail but I'm not on a linux box at the moment. It wouldn't hurt to install your video card drivers if you have them, its probably just using vesa at the moment.