Hi,

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I installed xfce4 by the menu (System / Meta Installer / Window Manager & check xfce4). After it run, the lat line"typer your code or close by Alt-F4".

As I have no idea which code is about, so I closed the window. Then I navigate to the menu Desktop. Only IceWN is visible. No XFCE. May be that was the code that I didn't know what to input which break the install. BTW why would the installer ask for a code after it is done with the install?

So then I attempt the command line: Bunch of things displayed, I just confirmed yes to all questions. At the end, no XFCE in menu.

Question: How to make the Desktop Environment switch back and forth from IceWM <-> XFCE ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

At the login screen hit F1 until XFCE shows up then continue logging in to it.

eriefisher wrote:At the login screen hit F1 until XFCE shows up then continue logging in to it.

Not working. I attempted to Log off. I expected the log in screen will show up. But AntiX switched to terminal mode. The last line is As I run antiX in a Virtual machine of a host which is Ubuntu 9.04 x64, when I press these keystrokes, they are captured by Ubuntu and these keystrokes cannot be sent to antiX VM.

Why would antiX switched to the terminal login screen when I log off? Is there any way to start a graphical interface by typing some commands?

Reboot antiX and then at the login screen do as erie suggests and let us know the result.

How to reboot?

In desperation, I sent Ctrl-Alt-Del. It seems to restart but still end up in the terminal. I also power off the VM (the equivalence of pulling the power plug) and power it on again, same thing. Terminal login. To leave no stone unterned, I also hit F1 in the terminal login screen, and it output [[A.

I guess that the installation of Xfce4 has screwed up the machine as it was working perfectly before.

Something may have been removed when XFCE was installed. Try and install GDM, slim can be flakey.

Ok, at that screen, it asks you to login.
Login as root and give the root password.
Then apt-get update (enter)
apt-get install gdm (and accept gdm as login manager if asked)

Reboot (type reboot) and you should now get the gdm login manager.
Somewhere there is a choice for xfce under Options (I think) I don't have it)

Not working but I think I know the reason.

GDM could not show up because it said"failed start X server". When I hit OK so see the details there are about a dozen of lines, here are the most significant portion of the X.org error log:

X.Org server 1.6.5
....
(EE) failed to load"freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) failed to load"type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) failed to load"v4l" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) module ABI major version (2) doesn't match the server's version (5)
(EE) failed to load module"vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) module ABI major version (2) doesn't match the server's version (4)
(EE) failed to load module"vboxmouse" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) no drivers available

I think that there is no need to waste your time further. I am just going to recreate this VM. If I really want to try XFCE I will try it with the Debian 5.03 XFCE CD.

Thanks for your help.